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Accessories Atrix Laptop Dock Demo

SMARTPHONEPC said:
Still wondering about pricing & to what extent it could compare to a real laptop:

A complete guide to the Motorola Atrix, a phone + laptop
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Depends on your needs in a real laptop.

if they have a decent word processor..

I think it could be really for john or jane doe a laptop replacement.

Your average user doesn't need much besides
A. a connection to web.
B. Facebook.
C. Word processing.
D. Generic applications you find on your phone these days.

Now.. if your hardcore gaming guy... good luck :P
 
Snow_Fox said:
Depends on your needs in a real laptop.

if they have a decent word processor..

I think it could be really for john or jane doe a laptop replacement.

Your average user doesn't need much besides
A. a connection to web.
B. Facebook.
C. Word processing.
D. Generic applications you find on your phone these days.

Now.. if your hardcore gaming guy... good luck :P
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Do you count google docs as a decent word processor? Or maybe documents to go? I'm pretty sure it will replace my netbook, probably not my laptop though. Need to be able to run my windows virtual machine...
 
barry99705 said:
Do you count google docs as a decent word processor? Or maybe documents to go? I'm pretty sure it will replace my netbook, probably not my laptop though. Need to be able to run my windows virtual machine...
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Actually I haven't had a lot of chance to use them and forgot all about them.

However from what I've seen it runs on par with microsofts word processor for most of my needs.
 
Hmm...

Firefox (though I'd really prefer Chrome)
QuickOffice & Google Docs
Full Flash support

Yea that covers almost everything I use my netbook for. If I can install Java and Silverlight (only for Netflix really) my netbook would collect dust.
 
El Blacksheep,

This is the main idea for this toy... Let's be faithful now. Once again, there is no camera built-in... that is really bad.

I want to combine both instead of a netbook.
 
AndreaCristiano said:
I agree about chrome
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I noticed in engadget's second look at the atrix that they tried downloading chrome for linux with no luck, but i'm sure that it's not compiled for ARM so that shouldn't be surprising.

I am curious to see if there will be any ability at all to install software in that webtop instance, though I have a feeling that it won't be possible natively. It would be pretty neat to be able to install ARM capable software onto it, even just light duty stuff would be neat. Shoehorning Chrome OS onto that webtop mode would be wild!

here's that second look:
Motorola Atrix: another look (video) -- Engadget
 
youareme7 said:
I noticed in engadget's second look at the atrix that they tried downloading chrome for linux with no luck, but i'm sure that it's not compiled for ARM so that shouldn't be surprising.

I am curious to see if there will be any ability at all to install software in that webtop instance, though I have a feeling that it won't be possible natively. It would be pretty neat to be able to install ARM capable software onto it, even just light duty stuff would be neat. Shoehorning Chrome OS onto that webtop mode would be wild!

here's that second look:
Motorola Atrix: another look (video) -- Engadget
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Def I wonder why Google didn't try and push them this direction
 
youareme7 said:
I noticed in engadget's second look at the atrix that they tried downloading chrome for linux with no luck, but i'm sure that it's not compiled for ARM so that shouldn't be surprising.

I am curious to see if there will be any ability at all to install software in that webtop instance, though I have a feeling that it won't be possible natively. It would be pretty neat to be able to install ARM capable software onto it, even just light duty stuff would be neat. Shoehorning Chrome OS onto that webtop mode would be wild!

here's that second look:
Motorola Atrix: another look (video) -- Engadget
Click to expand...


I see a Debian arm port in the future. Not by me, but it would fly on this system!

Well crap! You can compile Chrome for arm... http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumArm

runner2k said:
El Blacksheep,

This is the main idea for this toy... Let's be faithful now. Once again, there is no camera built-in... that is really bad.

I want to combine both instead of a netbook.
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Wonder if a usb webcam would work?
 
This phone and dock set up look really, really interesting, I was considering moving away from Android when the wife and I upgrade but this thing could easily be used within my workplace... I'm very impressed.
 
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