Fareham — Jun 6th 2009

This months Fareham meeting kicked off with WindowsXP showing on the screen. Shock, horror... Were we at the wrong meeting, wrong date...!?! No, thankfully it was to demo a piece of new technology which is currently only available for PC use. As it was so impressive and will be made available for the Mac it was deemed suitable!

So what was this marvellous technology, it was a magical pen which when used to write on an A4 notepad appeared on the big screen. Magic it wasn't, but it did show the latest Bluetooth technology in the guise of Papershow (http://www.papershow.com). This device seemed ideal for presenters, taking the place of the large interactive white board and for £120.00 (ish) perhaps WAGs might get one when it becomes available...

We followed this with a presentation by Terry on Netbooks and 'Hackintosh'. Although Apple don't currently make a Netbook others do and it is possible to run OSX on some of these, hence "Hackintosh" (http://www.hackintosh.com). The arguments put forward involved cost, size and use, hopefully proving useful to those with an experimental nature! Hopefully very thought provoking and there's more to follow on this next month...

After Coffee and Doughnuts, we went on to discuss using Television on the Mac. This broadened out into the digital debate and include receiving the signal via USB receivers, Satellite connections and various online methods. This opened up to a wide debate on Tv in general which all seemed to enjoy.

See you next time...

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Lionel Ogden said…

Apple make several Notebooks but as yet they don't make a Netbook unless you consider the Macbook Air as a netbook sheep in wolfs clothing.

Terry Willis said…

OOOPs, sorry when you read "Notebook" I should have written "Netbook"!!
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