If we dismiss arguments with "the speaker is a hypocrite" then NOBODY will EVER listen to ANYBODY because we are ALL hypocrites.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE, stop associating ideas with the mouths from which they emerge, and

LET IDEAS STAND OR FALL ON THEIR MERIT

NOT ON WHO SUPPOSEDLY SAID THEM

I'm looking right at the HDMI connector

It's no surprise that you can hook a fast GPU to a slow CPU and get good results, look at Raspberry Pi, who could imagine doing HDMI video with a single core 700 MHz processor?

When the computer that you carry around in your pocket is not a "Personal Computer", but the computer whose permanent home is on the floor, it's called a "Personal Computer"???

Very odd!

There was no graphical component to the development environment. It was no different from any of the other systems of the time in that respect.

Why don't you just tell the truth and say that this visual development environment was developed on MIT CADR and then shamelessly copied by Symbolics and LMI?

The design is open source. Download the gerber files, edit them and send away for your own boards. There are low-volume low-cost options like batchpcb and iteadstudios and you can have the boards you want for just a few dollars.

I've also heard of batteries that need replacing, epoxy kind of puts a damper on that.

The code is stored in flash ROM and there is a fair amount of it, you can write very sophisticated programs that only need a few bytes of RAM if you are clever.

There is nothing on that board that won't withstand a dunking in water. In fact I clean the flux from my soldering with copious hot water and a toothbrush. Just remove the battery and it can go right into the wash.

With two pins you get I2C and thus I/O expansion and as many pixels as you want.

Getting that spare battery installed into your tablet computer or your phone is MORE of a hack than wiring up an old typewriter.

Gosh they might have to learn to use copy and paste.

Yeah it doesn't look good for Microsoft when their competitors keep forcing them to take smaller and smaller margins.

Microsoft systems will always be burdened with the "Microsoft Tax" otherwise Microsoft has no revenue source.

Google systems have no "tax", because the OS is free. They have a distinct price advantage.

He he he

You running Linux on that laptop? Count the lines of Google code in your linux kernel.

Even running Linux you are depending on those evil corporations.

You should build your own kernel and rip out every google code contribution and every microsoft one too.

After all you don't want to be depending on google.

Good luck with that!