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Concept PC 2001

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-coming-soon-anywhere dept.

Rami Kassab writes: "Check out this sweet PC developed by HP. It runs on the Intel P4 and features a wireless keyboard, mouse, even a wireless 18" flat screen LCD monitor. The wireless mouse and keyboard run over RF. All of the components are connected to eachother via Bluetooth technology. Included with this PC is USB 2.0 and an ATI 7500 AGP card." The screen looks a little strange, but I always love seeing interesting new designs for these boxes since I spend so much time in front of one.

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  1. Finally... by nll8802 · · Score: 1, Informative

    There is finally some bluetooth devices coming out. I have been using a traditional wireless keyboard and mouse (IR) for a while and get quite a few missed keystrokes and mouse jerks. Bluetooth from what I understand is supposed to eliminate this. For those of you who dont know what bluetooth is go here.

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  2. Re:The Cats Will Be Very Upset by Armand28 · · Score: 1, Informative

    There's up to 300' of cable to chew to bits. Only the mouse and keyboard are wireless, the rest is a cable bundle from the monitor to the PC, up to 300' of cable.

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  3. Sweet PC? Bah! by ddillman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you actually look at the thing? Sure, some of the gadgets are interesting, but the way they've put it together isn't what I'd call sweet.

    Expandability? None, internally, to speak of. So that means loads of things hanging out on FireWire or USB cables. Wanna upgrade? Better call HP, as I'm sure this thing screams 'proprietary case design' for the thermal management they mention, let alone that's generally how HP works. Add that DVD-ROM? External, please. CD-RW? Same thing. Hard drive? Replace the existing, while juggling your data, because there isn't space for a second one.

    They mention XP pretty prominently, but I doubt seriously it will run Linux out of the box. They mention the Intel Pentium 4 a LOT. But I can get more bang for the buck with an Athlon. Option for that? Not that I could find...

    All in all, the whole thing looked like a commercial for Intel, not a sweet concept PC.

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  4. link to non-slashdotted page by tkolich62 · · Score: 2, Informative

    here's a link to Intel's version of the page...the other link i saw only took me to www.intel.com, lotta good that did...

  5. More cool PC concepts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Alternative Laptop Gallery Lots of cool images!!