Remember the smackbook? The smackbook uses motion sensor to swap between desktops. If you don’t like the idea of smacking your Mac laptop to change desktops, try waving at your mac.
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My god, that makes me want a Mac even more.
Stupid Microsoft and their fragile laptops… D :
#1 Microsoft doesn’t make laptop’s Dell/gateway/IBM and such do.
#2 I guess you have never seen a Panasonic Toughbook
http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/home.asp
I have messed with some of the older ones, thrown them into a wall, stood on top of a pile of them, beat my fist on the back of the screen. No damage at all, screen doesn’t crack nothin!
And you don’t have to have Microsoft software on them either, can always go for Linux.
I would love to see you try that kind of abuse with what ever apple laptop you have :)
I use Toughbook and Itronix Gobooks at work. I have used my GoBook as a handhold while driving, I have set taco bell on it, I have spilled drinks on it… And it still works.
Oh, and it works using Gentoo Linux.
I love my armored laptops. It means that I don’t have them going out of service.
I was shocked to see that! I want a mac now–badly…just to beat it a few times ^_^
I love shadow book, when I first got my MBP 17″ it was the first thing I installed along with and . So now I which between Windows and OS X with a wave off the hand, this has been extremely helpful for my work (sys-admin at LMCO) allowing me to continue to use apps that only run on windows while not having to dual-boot.
Parallels plans to add in versions to come which will hopefully remove the need for dual-boot all together.
Dude… I know what’s on my xmyth wish list now….
Hmm… seems my Links got messed up sorry about that, a newbie when it comes to commenting on WordPress.
Parallels = http://www.parallels.com/
Virtue Desktop = http://virtuedesktops.info/
News about 3D support for Parallels = http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/08/08/parallelswwdc/index.php
Again my apologies about the mess in my last post, newbie mistake.
I have a 6 year old Win98 SE laptop made by a small company called Highlander. So far its been kicked by cattle, droppedhad stuff dropped on it and it still works just as good as the day we bought it. Personally I wouldn’t be against giving a monitor a slight tap, as waving a few hundred times per day would hurt the wrist.
i was setting up a smackbook yesterday and it didn’t work i am using a g4 and i have to change some name i did thet but when i typed the stuff in the end and pushed enter it just didn’t work i dont get it i did evrything righ and now i am using just desktop manager without smacking my mac and it’s fine but i want the smack stuff.