https://alphasmart.com Twelve days until the reveal.

Please, please, please let Freewrite have learned the lessons of previous products.

I wish them all the best. Particularly if greater shreds of common sense manifest in the product.

So be it! ... We will wait these 9 days.

Hurrah! My handle is based on my love for the AlphaSmart Dana! May there be a Second Coming!!!

Amontillado wrote:

https://alphasmart.com Twelve days until the reveal.

Please, please, please let Freewrite have learned the lessons of
previous products.

I wish them all the best. Particularly if greater shreds of common sense
manifest in the product.

The idea of an "Alphasmart" - i.e. of "some sort-of-typewriter which could even fall into the water if needed, and without that incident being the ultimate catastrophy then" had been tempting indeed, but at the end of the day, we all had to acknowledge - and yes, of course, you retain the right to deny facts, just as you do in politics, haha!) - that just some 5, 6 lines of text, once we had become accustomed to moving passages / re-integrating concepts into broader ones -, to "create", instead of just of "writing"... wasn't just enough, for our creating things, just not jotting down ideas - for which, as said, a DM-720 (about 150 bucks, no "interest" in their sales, except YOUR interest in doing your work done...) the device being allowed to fall over board of our jolly or not -
don't be fools, mates: do your thing, but after thinking even how to do things, 'k?

(Sorry if that emulation came with some "full screen", and the according functionalities: discard my comment from your further thinking then... and only then, I might say...)

22111 wrote:

the end of the day, we all had to acknowledge

Mmmm... "We all?"

Kemosabe paints with overly broad forked brush.

There it is. It's looking nice.
I wonder how it will handle diacritics.

Lots of skepticism in the AlphaSmart forum regarding the pricing and capabilities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaSmart/comments/wwnmaa/new_freewrite_alpha/

Unless you absolutely need 100-hr battery life I think a comparably-priced Chromebook with 10-hr battery beats this in many ways.

I think part of the problem is the Freewrite folks expect you to draft your MS on this with certain specific workflows.

My Neo was always just another general purpose tool. It carried the load when my workflow forked away from my desk.

These days, I write differently. Instead of outlining, I write notes flying in coordinated confusion. Then I refer to that mess while I write.

If what I'm writing won't distract me from the Internet, I probably shouldn't be writing it.

satis wrote:

Lots of skepticism in the AlphaSmart forum regarding the pricing and
capabilities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaSmart/comments/wwnmaa/new_freewrite_alpha/

Unless you absolutely need 100-hr battery life I think a
comparably-priced Chromebook with 10-hr battery beats this in many ways.

... and the price! Yeeeuck!