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Transmeta Powered High-End Portable?

Posted by timothy on from the believe-it-when-it's-in-your-pocket dept.

NETHED writes: "CNet is running a story on the oQo (Very flash heavy) ultra portable computer. 'Along with Windows XP, it will come with a 5800 Crusoe processor from Transmeta, a 10GB hard drive, 256MB of memory, connection ports for FireWire and USB (universal serial bus), and wireless networking connections through either WiFi or Bluetooth.' Sounds like a winner, considering they want it to cost LESS than 1000USD. Now, only if this didn't sound like vaporware."

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  1. Re:USB? by NETHED · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, comon now, i was just quoting C-Net! :)

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  2. Hopefully the speed of the site by llamalicious · · Score: 4, Funny

    isn't indicative of the speed of their computers.
    doh! can you feel the slashdotting...?

  3. transmeta powered? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the heck is transmeta? Liquid? Gas? Have fun with your gadget, but I'll stick with my *electricity* powered portable thank you. And don't complain to me if you can't buy a transmeta refill canister at CompUSA. I never saw any.

    1. Re:transmeta powered? by istartedi · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm not usually one to nitpick over grammar, but I have to admit this bothers me too. The verb "to power" is evolving towards "to be a major integral part of". The first time I noticed this was "powered by Apache". IIRC, I went off on this, perhaps even on /.. "It's powered by electricity doofus, and that's powered mostly by coal in much of Virginia, and coal is mined by sweaty guys from West Virginia, so I'm going to put 'powered by sweaty guys from West Virginia' on my website".

      So, what would be a concise alternative to "powered" in these situations? perhaps "iamipo" for Is A Major Integral Part Of. Slashdot. Iamipoed by Apache. Apache Iamipoes Slashdot. I iamipo, he iamipoes, you iamipo (yes I realize "to be" is irregular, but there is no good reason to introduce another irregular verb. If anything, the Ebonic use of "to be" should become the sanctioned usage to make English more learnable for the rest of the world). How's that?

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  4. Re:High End?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    leaving just barely enough for mozilla

  5. WTF? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The screen measures just four inches in diameter"

    Um, so is oQo introducing the hot new 1940s-style-television round-screen craze to the market, too?

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  6. Re:The text from cnet by Eccles · · Score: 5, Funny

    The screen measures just four inches in diameter

    [Boggled look] The screen is round?

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  7. Re:needs more storage... by Bob+McCown · · Score: 2, Funny


    That would imply that a /. poster is actually reading the article...silly you...