OQO Ultra-Portable Impresses At CES

carpoolio writes "One of the most-talked about gadgets at CES last week was the OQO ultra personal computer (uPC). TechTV gave it a Best Mobile Device award, and deservedly so. It's a fully functional PC that fits in your pocket. Running on a 1 GHz Transmeta Crusoe processor, the uPC packs a 20 GB hard drive, 256 MB of RAM, and has a color screen that slides up to reveal the keyboard. The price? Sub-$2,000. Photos available on OQO's Web site. Similar devices have come and gone in recent years, but this one really looks nice." OQO seems to be slowly migrating from vaporware to a release date - a CNET News article notes that "OQO said Thursday that it will begin selling the device in the second half of 2004."

Comments

How to destroy your webserver

[Undaar]

Here are some simple steps to destroy your webserver:

1. Decide on an electronics device (computer, camera, etc)
2. Make device chosen in step 1 *really* small, but just as powerful as full sized device.
3. Put info about device on webserver you wish to destroy.
4. Post link to info on Slashdot.
5. ...
6. Profit! No! Slashdot!

OQO's site must be running on one of these things.

[CliffH]

Ok, enough being silly. :) Personally, I've been waiting on any kind of info for these as both a probable customer and reseller. It's a hell of a thing to want to tell your customers what's on the horizon only to have to bite your lip at every friggin turn due to said product being vapourware. I'm hoping against hope that they actually do get this out the door the second half of 2004 because I will buy one for myself (business expense, of course) and hopefully start selling them over here to the gadget lovers or the people that truly need something reasonably small that is a full blown PC. Now, if they can confirm that (insert distro here) runs on this thing with no problems, you have one hell of a nice little network analyzer and right about the same price as what Fluke offers (from memory), and it can be used for many other things (as opposed to what Fluke offers). Ruggedize the thing (there are people over here in NZ that specialize in that) and it would be a great tool on construction sites for conveying new building plans, emails, etc. Ok, enough rambling. I just want to see a beow... :)