Re: [NTLK] einstein -> antelope -> oqo? RANT ALERT!

From: emmanuel MATHIAS (emathias_at_mac.com)
Date: Sun Oct 03 2004 - 12:00:52 PDT


ok, i read you for few days....

let's talk about the main issue with this kind of device (remember
toshiba libretto 500gr PC)

        BATTERIE LIFE ! (hard drive, wifi option, color screen......)
        AND...
        WAKE UP DELAY...

But this device is a good plateforme for a new
...ton

emathias_at_mac.com
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Eleveur de Newton depuis 1994.
Le 3 oct. 04, à 20:27, Jim Witte a écrit :

>>> OQO is nice but seems like massive overkill - if you have a full PC
>>> why bother turning it into a PDA ?
>> its a different concept - no need to sync.
>
> But sync with *what*? If the OQO is basically a full PC, then you
> could have a PDA that synced with itself? (Given dual booting OS).
>
> I think the OQO would be nice - overkill is never a bad think IMO,
> though some ways of *using* it can be - think of what you could do with
> that 'overkill' for Newton-through-Einstein: really-high bitrate MP3's,
> MPEG-video playback, all while still taking notes and doing a
> background search on a soup that contained megabytes of information,
> while downloading news with InkSpot from the web, over WiFi, while
> simultaneously serving webpages wirelessly through that same WiFi
> gateway.
>
> Okay, maybe that was a *bit* over overkill. I'm not sure the Newton
> object heap would handle a soup that was megabytes big. Nor am I
> entirely sure how well InkSpot and NPDS would play nice together. (And
> of course, this might require NS multithreading unless NPDS runs in
> it's own task, and NS multithreading is currently not possible)
>
> Jim
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