First blog entry for a while

And it's not about Flux, or even Macs, it's about the Psion Series 7. I just bought one on eBay, slightly begrudgingly, simply because there wasn't anything more modern that would fit the bill. If you don't already know, the Series 7 is a tiny little PDA/Sub-notebook, about the size of a largeish hardback book, it runs EPOC, which is the ancestor of the Symbian OS, which runs on Nokia and other mobile phones, including the N95, and the E61 (more on this device in a later blog, it won't be flattering).

EPOC is one of the finest operating systems ever made, if only for the reason that it does everything it needs to very, very well, and nothing that it doesn't. If you like PalmOS, you'll like EPOC.

What saddens me a little though, as I write this article on my little Series 7, as I sit on the train going back to my flat (well, a train station quite near my flat, I won't have a train terminal at my flat until 2012, just in time for the Olympics.), is that there is no real modern replacement for it, the eeePC maybe, but certainly no Apple product that comes close to fitting the bill (the long dead eMate is similar, but quite a bit larger, I would have got one of those, if only it had been a little bit smaller.)

Anyway, the point of this post, is that there was no modern replacement for a very old product, and in a similar way there is no modern 'Mac', i.e. the Mac Pro is a very high end Mac, and the Mac Mini is quite a low end Mac, there isn't a *Mac*.