News flash it turns out that the n800 does have VIM. And nano, if you want it. Frankly, I think that’s pretty darn swell, and I think running nano with your thumbs would be a lot easier and more desireable than learning vim, though I could see the appeal, if you had
I wonder, though if you can do subversion checkouts through it, and thus use subversion as a synch tool. I mean who needs to wait for .mac integration when you can cook up some simple shell scripts?
I like the idea that jeff suggests where through bluetooth and a portable keyboard you can sort of force the internal editor to turn off. Now I do this with my laptop, more or less all the time, so it’s not a big concern for me, and I can imagine in a situation like this VIM wouldn’t be the tool you wanted, but none the less, having this kind of capability in a mobile device would be simply killer.
I think the new iPod Touch is a great piece of technology, and while I don’t really see a need for anything new in terms of a music player until I outgrow my current ipod, which will take a while. Having said that, buddy dave/will suggests that apple will come out with some sort of tablet in the next year. Which makes sense, they’re so close, and they could totally pull that off, in terms of technology, and I think there’s demand, and for many of the same reasons that the n800 appeals, that appeals more.
Full sized touch screen keyboard on a tablet? With the ability to use TextMate and TextExpander? Anyone? I think the kicker would be if it were all flash based, think they could probably get about 40 gigs for something reasonable in the next year, which would be plenty for something like that, if production isn’t a problem.
Anyway, enough geek fantasy for right now, I’m going to get some fiction writing of my own done before I have to do real work. And drink tea, must remember to drink tea.
Have a good day, I’m sure I’ll stay in touch. 
I think Apple should have at least OFFERED a hard drive based iPod touch. I was really looking forward to the iPhone’s interface in an iPod, but my 30gb is already bursting at the seams, so I don’t see myself downgrading in storage to get an upgraded interface.
Comment by Chris Rico — 6 September 2007 @ 1:23 pm
I agree, that would have been mighty attractive… I have an 80gb video ipod, and see no real reason to upgrade during this cycle, but I could see how in your position, it would suck big time. On the other had the ipod’s original selling point of “all your music in one device” I think is sort of tried. I mean ipod batteries won’t last long enough in one charge to play what you can stuff on a 30 gig, much less an 80 or 160 gig drive…
On the other hand, the touch ipods, are really much more about being web tablets, than being ipods, I think at least in my mind, so you don’t need something that’s incredibly huge to power that.
I think part of their intention as well is to make it so that people don’t just have an ipod, but rather have a big hard drive model for playing in a stereo dock and in the car for a road trip but that if you’re going running or just want to have something that will work as you walk around town throughout your day you want something like the ipod touch or the nano or shuffle. And it makes sense if you have money to burn, I’ve thought about this, but ultimately don’t mind carrying around the 80 gigger most of the time, but wouldn’t really care if it were only 60 gigs, for instance.
If you’re worried about/interested in stretching the range of your smaller ipod, think about using smart playlists in some way so that you can leave off the crap that you’re probably not going to listen to anyway… There’s an article here.
Enjoy!
Cheers!
Comment by tycho — 6 September 2007 @ 2:28 pm