Transmeta Needs Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes "Faced with dwindling sales, it looks like Transmeta needs Microsoft's new tablet PC to survive." Or, if not Microsoft, some company who can spark the long-overdue tablet-computing revolution.

Comments

Re:Acid Tablets!

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe its because they feel that together can produce something useful for the masses.

As opposed to the Linux Hippies, who'll just sit around and throw stones and whine about the big bad Microsoft.

U-S-A; U-S-A.

[Multiple Sanchez]

We Americans (when exactly did the residents of Canada, Central America, and South America yield that moniker to the residents of the United States? I must have missed it) consume so much of the world's resources and gleefully create such a disproportionate amount of waste that the people whose nations are now our toilets are more than willing to fly airplanes into us.

SUVs exist solely to circumvent fuel emissions legislation. The original Nintendo Entertainment System was a fraction of the size everywhere else in the world as it was in the U.S. -- United States consumers didn't like the small one, so Nintendo threw it into a big gray box, and it sold like gangbusters. And, while we're talking about silicon(e), How many tit jobs do you see while walking the streets of Paris? Milan? Tokyo? Lisbon?

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah -- Transmeta. I have no clue why Transmeta's stuff didn't really fly in the states. Someone should do an expensive study.

Re:Transmeta and a non-American approach

[q-soe]

Why do americans have this dream that the rest of the world is just like them ? most countries in the third world would be happy withy having enough food to feed theior populations and basic health care and literacy let alone handheld PC's

And what government funding ? if a government cannot get money to paty for health, education and even food hows it going to fund $2000 PC's ? most of these countries have virtually no ele electrical infrastructure or telecoms systems at all.

This computers for the third world bull is getting tired - if people want to help these countries may i suggest joining a volunteer group and actually going there - you might find that access to a computer is about the last thing on peoples minds in countries like this.