Talking Out Of Turn

Let’s try typing something. This is fairly pleasant. It will be hard to get used to not using Emacs keys, though. The LCD display seems slow from this angle, but this is most likely the angle I’d be using on the bus, so I guess this is all right.

I can read it just fine at six lines per screen; I think that that will work just fine. I wish I could get rid of the dictionary, the Spanish-English options, and the thesaurus, and use the extra memory for something else. Like maybe totally custom keyboard layouts. *smiles*

Boy, you can’t really do anything but type on here. That’s a good thing, really. Helps with concentration. Now, is it obvious how to search for something? Yep: there’s a “find” button. Simple enough. Spell check got hung up on “Emacs” but that was it. No big surprise there. It suggested “Macs.” As if.

This is really perfect for a normal person, and pretty near perfect for myself. Perfect would be the ability to remap Caps Lock and Control, and to do Emacs keybindings, as I said earlier.

You can search all the files on the system, apparently.

I see no way to determine how much space you have left. That’s a little annoying.

I can’t believe how light this thing is. I can keep it balanced on one leg and use my palms to steady it, and type at nearly full speed. Not too shabby. It feels light but rugged and inflexible. Just right. People complain about the dark green color, but to me that reminds me of two things: the eMate 300, and the original RedHat 5 xrdb entry for Emacs backgrounds.

I can cope with this. Oh, yes.

Now I just need to load text into it. And read enough of the manual to figure out if there’s any hope of getting memory status out of the thing.