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Sun Announces Its First Laptop

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-machine dept.

boarder8925 writes "Enterprise computer maker Sun Microsystems announced its first-ever laptop yesterday, saying the machine was designed to let engineers and scientists perform demanding computer tasks away from their desks. Sun, which has seen sales fall for the last four years, said that it was also lowering prices for some of its computers by up to 40 percent."

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  1. A little bit bored...but. by citizenklaw · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, Sun laptops you! Seriously, I wonder why is this something of interest. Powerful notebooks nowadays can run the latest *nix apps with mighty aplomb. Just look at the (relatively) cheap behemots that Powernotebooks has on their web site. www.powernotebooks.com. Yeeesss. Those same notebooks you see from other vendors (you know who you are) are available cheaply from these guys. Heck, they even sell you their lappys with no OS! (Hence, no MS tax!) Just take a look at the NP9880. When you see a lap like this, dual CD bays, 17" wide screen, memory reader that can read even your finger, Full (with a numeric pad) keyboard, etc. It's enough to make you drool and take your corporate D(H)ell laptop, shove it out the nearest window and requisition this baby. Granted, it won't last on battery a good deal. But with a decent DC adapter you can probably hook it up to a plane's jack. For the most moderate minded, check out their line of 15" lappys. You can get a fully decked 15" rig for a few bucks less than those 'other' guys.

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  2. This reminds me... by birge · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This reminds of an old joke about the definition of a social scientist (and despite their claims otherwise, people studying human cognition should be considered social scientists as long as they study human intelligence while there are people still working to really understand worm intelligence):

    A social scientist is somebody who is constantly amazed by the obvious.

    The idea that our chemical/electronic brain operates continuously and without binary information seems to me to be the overriding assumption anybody would, and has always, taken. Did they think anybody was under the impression that we all had timing clocks in us? And anybody who's tried to order a dessert at a restaurant knows damn well the human brain is analog.

    The question I'd like to see answered is why there has been such a recent surge in funding for this kind of bullshit science. Let's figure out how a friggin rat works first, ok? There's a ton of "results" coming out of this field, but nothing of any use. Didn't we try this already with AI in the 70s?