OK, there is something I can agree with on all counts. I have never tried the open Einstein, although I did write to steve jobs once asking if he would release the source code to the newton.
You will be suprised to know he didn't reply.
I don't think he can. For one thing, NewtonOS relied heavily on the Voyager chipset, and apparently the sources for that piece of technology have been lost. What Paul Guyot (and now others) have been trying mostly, is a software reconstruction of that chip.
Also, while the Rosetta (printed) handwriting recognizer was an Apple product, ParaGraph (the cursive recognizer) wasn't and isn't. ParaGraph is now property of PhatWare and lives on as PenOffice for Windows (I believe Rosetta has been unearthed -- to keep the metaphore afloat -- as Inkwell).
And finally, Jobs is Satan, and will never reply to mails about Newton.
On the terminology: OpenEinstein is the virtual NewtonOS itself; Relativity are all the hooks into "normal" hardware peripherals and file systems.
I think what you are describing is called the eee 9 incher for 499$. Coming out end of april. I know that is what I'll be getting to add to my wm6.1 dash/excaliber and delightfull n800 only problem is i don't have any more pockets ¤
Hmm... yes, spec-wise, I thought it's pretty close too.. but it's too mainstream, y'know. There's not much pain and suffering associated with the device when you flip that out in public
Clamshell designs just don't suit me.
