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Old 08-08-2007, 06:29 PM
rob_ocelot
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Screw VGA. On the 2.8" screen of the Tytn/Kaiser it's not going to make that much of a difference unless you are looking at a large spreadsheet. VGA IMO was a bit of a half-baked experiment that many manufacturers seem to have abandoned. This is coming from an early VGA adopter (Toshiba E800 and F/S Loox 720).

What I would like to know is what happened to USB host? One would think that the ability to plug in the now-ubiquitous USB flash drives would be a major selling point. They tout these new machines as multimedia powerhouses, yet they are reluctant to beef up the onbard flash RAM to compliment these features -- I think USB host would go a long way to keeping the base cost of the machine down and allowing the user to have more storage on the go if they need it. Plus, USB host can be used for almost anything that uses the USB bus, provided there are drivers. This was never a problem back in the days of the E800 when we were able to hack USB gamepads and Bluetooth onto machines that didn't have those capabilities.
 
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