MMO to go: Panasonic designing a handheld online gaming machine

Linux? This is the 21st century and people can keep their hobbies out of gaming machines.

It needs to run Windows games and not almost run them with Wine. Even Apple usres have the option of Win 7.

You can of course now purchase Netbooks with decent graphics, dual core, 1330x768 screen and Win 7, which are decent and very cheap gaming computers.

The Linux comment is a fair one.

Though I'm down with the concept.

On a personal note, that Asus Eee PC is awful.
I have one laying around and I came close to throwing it in the bin. WPoS.

Hey Pan, if you don't want that EeePC, mind giving it to me? I love mine and a second one would be nice.

I actually got winXP and World of Warcraft running on mine. Not well enough to raid, but enough to check the AH and do some questing.

Your judging it based on the first image and bit of information we have ever heard about the product?

Heck, at least give it a chance! Theres literally no information about it at all, and making an opinion about it now is just short sighted and idiotic

I agree. We should start a betting pool to see how long it takes for it to be an epic fail.

I say 18 months.

Honestly, you can hardly call a laptop a portable gaming device.

My gameboy beats a laptop when it comes to gaming. :)

Laptops are too expensive, too big, too heavy, they consume way too much power to actually enjoy anything and then some.

To get some sales, they should have got apple to release it.

i think it's more because while the games that are made for the iphone now are okay the regulations and stupid programming language the iphone and that insist on using would hold big projects back (especially when the current devs on the platform probably make more money selling an addictive game like angry birds than something considered a full release for a large pricepoint

Apparently you can fool some of the people all of the time. Rented an iPad for a week to check compantibility with our HTML5 software and was severly underwhelmed. The fingerpainting is cute, but gets old real quick - especially when you want to do simple things like text editing (a cursor keypad woudl have solved that). The lack of multitasking is also a pain and I'm sure that fingerprint oil covered screen is spreading disease even now. I never could see the use of a pad except for simple input tasks. Even being able to use a stylus would make it more useful. As for iOS, I just love another crowded desktop UI.

If you don't create anything, don't play games and don't mind lugging a brick around (yes it was surprisingly heavy) so you can view a minority of Web pages (no Flash of course) and maybe look at Youtube, then this is the pad for you.