Consider that Apple seems to be targetting the end-user arena, are users gonna care if they can run Itunes in 1 second instead of 4?
In short, YES! When startup times for your apps are at least a 2 seconds or so for every app, having apps pop up as fast as they typically do on a high end PC is a major plus... My 500MHz iBook + OS X 10.2 is awesome and I'm hoping to go to a 12" Powerbook (or dare I dream 15") in the next few months... But waiting a few seconds for IE, Safari, Word, Excel, Terminal, iTunes, X11... gets old real fast. I click the Winamp icon from the quicklaunch bar on my XP 2000+, 512MB DDR, WinXP Pro system and it's already waiting on me to tell it what I want it to do next. I want that kind of response from my Mac too! And further, waiting for iTunes to determine the volume of a bunch of files I drop on it and doing other things before it starts to play annoys me to no end... that's why I use VLC now.
I'm graduating from college in May and through a deal my university has with MS I got Windows 98SE, Me, XP Pro for $5 each and 2000 Pro for $15, along with similar good deals on Office...
So if anyone reading this has ties at MS could you *please* push them to buy Connectix soon enough to put VPC6 in my university's computer store for say $5-$10, I would seriously appreciate it... and I'm talking the PC *AND* Mac versions!!
May not be anyone still reading or posting about this article anymore, but I'll throw my $0.02 in anyways...
My friends and I were big into computers since about 3rd grade. We were also consistently on honor roles, in NHS, etc. And honestly I'd say I fit into class C or perhaps even B, especially my last 2 years of high school. For one, a lot of the "popular" kids ended up in NHS and I have no doubts earned it. And for another thing, a lot of the people who were snobbish, mean, etc, etc. to me years back actually grew up a lot (as did I, cuz face it we've all been insulting to others at some time or another) those last 2 years.
And while I don't know if I'll go to my reunion because I actively oppose dancing for religious reasons, a part of me still wants to go just to say "Hi" to a lot of those people. Any "I gotta go back to rub my success in their face" feelings I used to have left a long time back. Because ultimately success being measured by money you make, job position, how "hot" your spouse is, etc, etc. doesn't measure happiness or *true* success. I've known people in "lowly" jobs as far as most people would be concerned who are some of the happiest people I know. I attribute much of that to religion too, but I won't get into that here.
Simply stated, get over it, dwelling on the past and how you can rub your "success" in other people's faces, is just as childish and stupid as those who gave you a hard time in school.
That's my $0.02, feel free to take it to heart or ignore it completely.
how robust is the circuitry in the glass? I know on my iBook that on occasion when I try to move the screen back and forth to whatever position that I can see some slight discoloration around the area behind the screen where my fingers are pushing the screen into place. Will circuitry like this be able to handle that if it's put in a laptop? I would certainly like to think so, but am still curious about this.
if he'd ever really decide (a) is true if Declan decides (b) is. People's honesty and sticking by their word isn't what it used to be... like a few liberal actors and actresses I know of who said they'd move to Europe is Bush Jr. was elected President and I'm still waiting to see that actually happen.
I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my sister's machine because Windows Me was just too resource hungry and spending $150 for win2k or winxp pro was a last resort... It seemed to support and have almost everything she needed: AIM, MSN, Yahoo! messenger, TV viewing and capturing capabilities of her ATI AIW 128 Pro card via xine, DVD playback, Samba, oggs, Mozilla, x-sane, and it was painless for me to install (well almost except for the initial lockup)... but then the fatal flaw... no support for her D-Link DWL-520+ 802.11b PCI card, and that's what killed the idea and had me reinstalling Windows Me again.
So what does it all boil down to? Linux needs to just plain support everything as quickly as MS can. Frankly if the Linux community can't get the major hardware vendors to take them seriously and give them the product documentation to develop drivers and such, then I see no reason to give it to my family. I'd sooner buy them all Macs with OS X, if I really cared to enrich their unix experience.
Just my $0.02
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Well, I don't know if anyone is still reading posts for this article, but in case anyone does, I'm throwing in my $0.02.
I think you somewhat misunderstand certain people in the religious world. Now as a whole, many who practice a religion, especially in so-called "Christianity", take everything completely on faith. And certainly you cannot prove the existence of God's soul, or heaven, or hell, or any other spiritual beings, because they exist outside the universe and time.
However, those of us who are truly dedicated to Christianity don't take God entirely on faith. Rather we look at the design in the universe, and I believe rightly conclude, that this order could not have happened by mistake, nor that the universe is eternal. We look at what we call "Christian Evidences" to help solidify our faith. And Christian Evidences are another word for scientific facts we use from both creationists *AND* non-creationists scientists alike, to show that no other theories of the existence and organization of the universe can be valid or than the God of the Bible.
One big and well-known website in the brotherhood dedicated to presenting these facts is apologeticspress.org. For instance, one thing I recall reading on there is that the earth moves about 18 miles/sec in its orbit and for every 19 miles I believe it was (I might have those 2 numbers switched) the earth departs from a straight line by about 0.9 inches. Now if the earth moved 0.8 inches or 1.0 inches instead, all life on earth would either freeze or incinerate. The probability of this happening by chance, as I'm sure you can imagine, or not too good. And there's 1000's, if not millions, more facts like that out there.
So while as Christians, we are forced to take certain things on faith, it is not a blind faith, but rather one based on the evidence around us.
And scientists are the same way with scientific theories. Either you blindly accept scientific theories (a blind faith), or you believe scientific principles based on the facts. I believe Galileo could back me up here with what he went through in his time.
cooling engineers. We need to continue working towards things like 0.01 micron process (and smaller), fiber optic interconnects, and use the technologies like from Alchemy, Inc. like I'm sure AMD is doing.
What I'm really hoping for one day is a chip made entirely of fiber optics. Sure it's a ways off, but certainly should help speed and heat issues.
Here is proof that some of the first animal life did start in the seas. There's just not *strong* evidence of other types of life on land & in the air deriving from life in the water.
I'm sorry, is it April 1st already? I can watch a gui or cli and get an idea of what's going on just fine. Perhaps for some this is a good idea, but for most people it seems pointless to me.
If you want to see how much evolutionists are even skepitcal of their own theories, try reading that article.
There are a lot of so-called "Christians" who accept God and believe in God without facts. Such people I would call blind zealots. But there are many Christians who believe because of the facts. If you consider a lot of arguments for evolution they either argue in circles or have more evidence going AGAINST them than for them. For instance "survival of the fittest" is a circular argument that leads nowhere. But the URL I posted goes through it MUCH better than I could in this space.
As for other arguments: (1) The Big Bang only suggests how the heavenly bodies formed, it doesn't explain how or why the universe is here, nor does it explain what's beyond the bounds of the universe.
(2) Atheism requires that the person know literally EVERYTHING about the universe AND beyond to know there is no God, which obviously he/she can't do.
(3) Agnosticism ignores the evidence like if I said "I've never seen George Washington and neither have you, therefore neither of us can know if he existed or not." If someone was to argue this, I could just as easily argue that they cannot know if I exist or they even exist because maybe there is no such thing as intelligence or even matter and energy. It's a flawed idea to say the least.
Simply put, I'd rather believe in God as the creator of the universe and the Bible is His word, due to the evidence around me, than blindly follow **supposed** scientific principles.
Those who are serious about Christianity are very much scientists, who study the evidence carefully, because if God doesn't exist then we're wasting a whole lot of time in that case.
But to give you a taste of some of the evidence we study and consider... the Earth orbits the sun at a speed of 19 miles per second. And for every 18 miles it moves it only departs from a straight line by 1/9 of an inch. If it moved 1/8 or 1/10 we'd either burn up or freeze to death. That's a pretty precise orbit if it was only a chance occurence.
We may all be scientists and technicians reading slashdot, but we don't all accept "supposed" scientific evidence just because someone renowned says we should. Scientists need and should be open to as much scrutiny as the Bible, otherwise believers of evolution, the Big Bang, and such are just as much blind followers as those who profess to be Christians without studying the facts for themselves.
Well this was a long comment to post, but if at least one person reads it who benefits from a spiritual standpoint, then it's all worth it.
It does bug me that M$ has so much money and power. However, I've grown kind of numb to the arguments. I use WinXP Pro and MacOS X 10.1.5 mostly. I really like FreeBSD, but much of what I need to do is accomplished much faster and easier under WinXP Pro or Mac OS X. I know some tend to do it for the kewlness factor, as though the tougher the OS is to manuever and the more coding you have to do to make it work for you, the better you are, or some such thing. But I already know C, C++, x86 assembler, 6812 assembler, pascal (and Delphi), javascript, perl, mysql statements well enough to do almost anything I need for my computer engineering classes, for dynamic webpages, or whatever else. I don't see any reason for me to beat my chest and show how good I am. After installing about 6 OSes (and numerous versions and variations of some of those OSes) perhaps 50 times over the years, I don't care to show off. I just want the computer to do what I need when I need it to. So I suppose in summary, right tool for the right job...
When I want to play oggs, mpeg2 videos, DVDs, games, code in VC++, Delphi or perl, etc, etc. I can use my machine with WinXP.
When I want to do any of that with a nicer gui and unix underpinnings along with mobility, I use my iBook with OSX.
Put a screen protector film thingie on the tablet PC and have an onscreen keyboard. Current PDAs (at least that I know of) don't even offer 640x480. Imagine eventually that you'd have gigs of magnetic RAM (or whatever really fast non-volatile memory takes root in time) for a hard drive and of course this storage space fits in a really small and thin area the size of a compact flash card or so. I personally want tablet PCs to take off, especially if they make it foldable horizontally and vertically so it fits in my cargo pants:)
my G3 500MHz, 384MB, 8MB ATI chipset, DVD iBook with OS X 10.1.5 runs fairly fast. I mean it's more responsive than with OS X 10.0, and still more responsive than my K6-3 500 + 448 MB + WinME + 16MB ATI AIW 128 Pro. And I imagine in certain areas it would outperform my Duron 750 + 512MB + Win2k Pro + 32MB TNT2. So considering that my model is now severely outclassed by the fastest desktop and laptop macs, I'd say OS X is plenty fast. And when I eventually go to Jaguar I can only imagine how much responsive it'll be.
No more need to buy cases with neon lights in them... just grab the latest motherboard from your favorite mobo manufacturer and voila:)
But in all seriousness, after I saw the article a while back (on slashdot) with something about optical traces on a motherboard in about 5 years from now, it had me very intrigued. I mean if you can shave a few nanoseconds from every bus cycle that's gotta be worth 10% increase in performance eventually. Especially on a clawhammer/sledgehammer where you've eliminated the north bridge part of the chipset.
Apple makes money off selling their hardware though. If they sell an x86 based machine with an x86 version of OSX, that means several things:
(1) OSX apps have to be recompiled for the x86 instruction set
(2) Apple would probably have to make a strong effort to make sure their version of an x86 PC has such specific hardware that OSX wouldn't easily run on other x86 machines. And surely Apple knows a hack to get around that wouldn't be long in coming.
(3) If they didn't make proprietary hardware for their x86 machine, people would say "Why buy Apple's x86 machine when xyz company sells it cheaper?" In which case, Apple would probably have to refuse selling OSX accept on their own PCs, but that'd lock out a good part of the x86 market and not be good from a business standpoint.
I disagree, I don't believe they're a pet rock. A PDA has the potential to be quite a few things along with what they already are: of course there's the organizer, internet, and cell phone features, then there's handheld gaming system (like a gameboy), digital photo album (partially what I use my handspring for), pager, eventually a video phone (I'm thinking something like from Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, see here if you don't know what movie I'm talking about), a sub-notebook with gigs of space once magnetic RAM and such come out and drop in price, etc, etc.
Basically I see PDAs and laptops merging into what looks like just the LCD portion of a laptop, but that has all the ports you need to plug in peripherals, along with solid state drives (with MRAM, Flash, or whatever), plenty of RAM, and the latest and greatest processors so you can run Windows 2000/XP, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Linux, or whatever OS you want on. And of course the screen would be a touch screen with a pen so you could write documents in your own handwriting, if you so choose, or you could use your fingers with the onscreen keyboard (or plug one in if you absolutely need one). And as a matter of portability, the screen would be hinged in a few places to let you fold it up and put it in your pocket...
Sure that kind of stuff is still a ways into the future, but that's what I believe should happen and that would grab a reasonable chunk of the market, if done properly.
If I use both hands do I get 20Mbit? What about 40 if I use my feet?
And if I wear very insulated clothing that also reduces the effects of magnetic fields around me, does that give a cleaner signal and less packet loss?:)
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Consider that Apple seems to be targetting the end-user arena, are users gonna care if they can run Itunes in 1 second instead of 4?
In short, YES! When startup times for your apps are at least a 2 seconds or so for every app, having apps pop up as fast as they typically do on a high end PC is a major plus... My 500MHz iBook + OS X 10.2 is awesome and I'm hoping to go to a 12" Powerbook (or dare I dream 15") in the next few months... But waiting a few seconds for IE, Safari, Word, Excel, Terminal, iTunes, X11... gets old real fast. I click the Winamp icon from the quicklaunch bar on my XP 2000+, 512MB DDR, WinXP Pro system and it's already waiting on me to tell it what I want it to do next. I want that kind of response from my Mac too! And further, waiting for iTunes to determine the volume of a bunch of files I drop on it and doing other things before it starts to play annoys me to no end... that's why I use VLC now.
Summary of the above: ya seconds matter!
I'm graduating from college in May and through a deal my university has with MS I got Windows 98SE, Me, XP Pro for $5 each and 2000 Pro for $15, along with similar good deals on Office...
So if anyone reading this has ties at MS could you *please* push them to buy Connectix soon enough to put VPC6 in my university's computer store for say $5-$10, I would seriously appreciate it... and I'm talking the PC *AND* Mac versions!!
May not be anyone still reading or posting about this article anymore, but I'll throw my $0.02 in anyways...
My friends and I were big into computers since about 3rd grade. We were also consistently on honor roles, in NHS, etc. And honestly I'd say I fit into class C or perhaps even B, especially my last 2 years of high school. For one, a lot of the "popular" kids ended up in NHS and I have no doubts earned it. And for another thing, a lot of the people who were snobbish, mean, etc, etc. to me years back actually grew up a lot (as did I, cuz face it we've all been insulting to others at some time or another) those last 2 years.
And while I don't know if I'll go to my reunion because I actively oppose dancing for religious reasons, a part of me still wants to go just to say "Hi" to a lot of those people. Any "I gotta go back to rub my success in their face" feelings I used to have left a long time back. Because ultimately success being measured by money you make, job position, how "hot" your spouse is, etc, etc. doesn't measure happiness or *true* success. I've known people in "lowly" jobs as far as most people would be concerned who are some of the happiest people I know. I attribute much of that to religion too, but I won't get into that here.
Simply stated, get over it, dwelling on the past and how you can rub your "success" in other people's faces, is just as childish and stupid as those who gave you a hard time in school.
That's my $0.02, feel free to take it to heart or ignore it completely.
When will mankind learn to stop doing such things? It's such a lame & petty thing to do.
20K DVD per cubit^2 is wrong anyways...
:)
1 cubit = approx. 18 inches
(1 cubit) ^ 2 = 18*18 sq. inches
47 DVDs * 18 * 18 = 15,228
Or is it considered acceptable to round up by 1000's when the number is only in the low 10,000s?
how robust is the circuitry in the glass? I know on my iBook that on occasion when I try to move the screen back and forth to whatever position that I can see some slight discoloration around the area behind the screen where my fingers are pushing the screen into place. Will circuitry like this be able to handle that if it's put in a laptop? I would certainly like to think so, but am still curious about this.
check out the specs for the hammer line... P4 can't touch it.
if he'd ever really decide (a) is true if Declan decides (b) is. People's honesty and sticking by their word isn't what it used to be... like a few liberal actors and actresses I know of who said they'd move to Europe is Bush Jr. was elected President and I'm still waiting to see that actually happen.
I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my sister's machine because Windows Me was just too resource hungry and spending $150 for win2k or winxp pro was a last resort... It seemed to support and have almost everything she needed: AIM, MSN, Yahoo! messenger, TV viewing and capturing capabilities of her ATI AIW 128 Pro card via xine, DVD playback, Samba, oggs, Mozilla, x-sane, and it was painless for me to install (well almost except for the initial lockup)... but then the fatal flaw... no support for her D-Link DWL-520+ 802.11b PCI card, and that's what killed the idea and had me reinstalling Windows Me again.
So what does it all boil down to? Linux needs to just plain support everything as quickly as MS can. Frankly if the Linux community can't get the major hardware vendors to take them seriously and give them the product documentation to develop drivers and such, then I see no reason to give it to my family. I'd sooner buy them all Macs with OS X, if I really cared to enrich their unix experience.
Just my $0.02
Well, I don't know if anyone is still reading posts for this article, but in case anyone does, I'm throwing in my $0.02.
I think you somewhat misunderstand certain people in the religious world. Now as a whole, many who practice a religion, especially in so-called "Christianity", take everything completely on faith. And certainly you cannot prove the existence of God's soul, or heaven, or hell, or any other spiritual beings, because they exist outside the universe and time.
However, those of us who are truly dedicated to Christianity don't take God entirely on faith. Rather we look at the design in the universe, and I believe rightly conclude, that this order could not have happened by mistake, nor that the universe is eternal. We look at what we call "Christian Evidences" to help solidify our faith. And Christian Evidences are another word for scientific facts we use from both creationists *AND* non-creationists scientists alike, to show that no other theories of the existence and organization of the universe can be valid or than the God of the Bible.
One big and well-known website in the brotherhood dedicated to presenting these facts is apologeticspress.org. For instance, one thing I recall reading on there is that the earth moves about 18 miles/sec in its orbit and for every 19 miles I believe it was (I might have those 2 numbers switched) the earth departs from a straight line by about 0.9 inches. Now if the earth moved 0.8 inches or 1.0 inches instead, all life on earth would either freeze or incinerate. The probability of this happening by chance, as I'm sure you can imagine, or not too good. And there's 1000's, if not millions, more facts like that out there.
So while as Christians, we are forced to take certain things on faith, it is not a blind faith, but rather one based on the evidence around us.
And scientists are the same way with scientific theories. Either you blindly accept scientific theories (a blind faith), or you believe scientific principles based on the facts. I believe Galileo could back me up here with what he went through in his time.
cooling engineers. We need to continue working towards things like 0.01 micron process (and smaller), fiber optic interconnects, and use the technologies like from Alchemy, Inc. like I'm sure AMD is doing.
What I'm really hoping for one day is a chip made entirely of fiber optics. Sure it's a ways off, but certainly should help speed and heat issues.
Here is proof that some of the first animal life did start in the seas. There's just not *strong* evidence of other types of life on land & in the air deriving from life in the water.
I'm sorry, is it April 1st already? I can watch a gui or cli and get an idea of what's going on just fine. Perhaps for some this is a good idea, but for most people it seems pointless to me.
Well I don't know if you'll see this post, but I'll put it anyways...
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http://www.apologeticspress.org/docsdis/2002/dc
If you want to see how much evolutionists are even skepitcal of their own theories, try reading that article.
There are a lot of so-called "Christians" who accept God and believe in God without facts. Such people I would call blind zealots. But there are many Christians who believe because of the facts. If you consider a lot of arguments for evolution they either argue in circles or have more evidence going AGAINST them than for them. For instance "survival of the fittest" is a circular argument that leads nowhere. But the URL I posted goes through it MUCH better than I could in this space.
As for other arguments:
(1) The Big Bang only suggests how the heavenly bodies formed, it doesn't explain how or why the universe is here, nor does it explain what's beyond the bounds of the universe.
(2) Atheism requires that the person know literally EVERYTHING about the universe AND beyond to know there is no God, which obviously he/she can't do.
(3) Agnosticism ignores the evidence like if I said "I've never seen George Washington and neither have you, therefore neither of us can know if he existed or not." If someone was to argue this, I could just as easily argue that they cannot know if I exist or they even exist because maybe there is no such thing as intelligence or even matter and energy. It's a flawed idea to say the least.
Simply put, I'd rather believe in God as the creator of the universe and the Bible is His word, due to the evidence around me, than blindly follow **supposed** scientific principles.
Those who are serious about Christianity are very much scientists, who study the evidence carefully, because if God doesn't exist then we're wasting a whole lot of time in that case.
But to give you a taste of some of the evidence we study and consider... the Earth orbits the sun at a speed of 19 miles per second. And for every 18 miles it moves it only departs from a straight line by 1/9 of an inch. If it moved 1/8 or 1/10 we'd either burn up or freeze to death. That's a pretty precise orbit if it was only a chance occurence.
We may all be scientists and technicians reading slashdot, but we don't all accept "supposed" scientific evidence just because someone renowned says we should. Scientists need and should be open to as much scrutiny as the Bible, otherwise believers of evolution, the Big Bang, and such are just as much blind followers as those who profess to be Christians without studying the facts for themselves.
Well this was a long comment to post, but if at least one person reads it who benefits from a spiritual standpoint, then it's all worth it.
It does bug me that M$ has so much money and power. However, I've grown kind of numb to the arguments. I use WinXP Pro and MacOS X 10.1.5 mostly. I really like FreeBSD, but much of what I need to do is accomplished much faster and easier under WinXP Pro or Mac OS X. I know some tend to do it for the kewlness factor, as though the tougher the OS is to manuever and the more coding you have to do to make it work for you, the better you are, or some such thing. But I already know C, C++, x86 assembler, 6812 assembler, pascal (and Delphi), javascript, perl, mysql statements well enough to do almost anything I need for my computer engineering classes, for dynamic webpages, or whatever else. I don't see any reason for me to beat my chest and show how good I am. After installing about 6 OSes (and numerous versions and variations of some of those OSes) perhaps 50 times over the years, I don't care to show off. I just want the computer to do what I need when I need it to. So I suppose in summary, right tool for the right job...
:)
When I want to play oggs, mpeg2 videos, DVDs, games, code in VC++, Delphi or perl, etc, etc. I can use my machine with WinXP.
When I want to do any of that with a nicer gui and unix underpinnings along with mobility, I use my iBook with OSX.
That's my $0.02, take it for what it's worth
Put a screen protector film thingie on the tablet PC and have an onscreen keyboard. Current PDAs (at least that I know of) don't even offer 640x480. Imagine eventually that you'd have gigs of magnetic RAM (or whatever really fast non-volatile memory takes root in time) for a hard drive and of course this storage space fits in a really small and thin area the size of a compact flash card or so. I personally want tablet PCs to take off, especially if they make it foldable horizontally and vertically so it fits in my cargo pants :)
my G3 500MHz, 384MB, 8MB ATI chipset, DVD iBook with OS X 10.1.5 runs fairly fast. I mean it's more responsive than with OS X 10.0, and still more responsive than my K6-3 500 + 448 MB + WinME + 16MB ATI AIW 128 Pro. And I imagine in certain areas it would outperform my Duron 750 + 512MB + Win2k Pro + 32MB TNT2. So considering that my model is now severely outclassed by the fastest desktop and laptop macs, I'd say OS X is plenty fast. And when I eventually go to Jaguar I can only imagine how much responsive it'll be.
Uhh, when it (wireless technologies) reaches a few 100Mbit and is used by the masses, then maybe :)
what about when the pumpkin starts decaying? It'll literally become the stinkiest PC I've ever heard of! :)
No more need to buy cases with neon lights in them... just grab the latest motherboard from your favorite mobo manufacturer and voila :)
But in all seriousness, after I saw the article a while back (on slashdot) with something about optical traces on a motherboard in about 5 years from now, it had me very intrigued. I mean if you can shave a few nanoseconds from every bus cycle that's gotta be worth 10% increase in performance eventually. Especially on a clawhammer/sledgehammer where you've eliminated the north bridge part of the chipset.
Apple makes money off selling their hardware though. If they sell an x86 based machine with an x86 version of OSX, that means several things:
(1) OSX apps have to be recompiled for the x86 instruction set
(2) Apple would probably have to make a strong effort to make sure their version of an x86 PC has such specific hardware that OSX wouldn't easily run on other x86 machines. And surely Apple knows a hack to get around that wouldn't be long in coming.
(3) If they didn't make proprietary hardware for their x86 machine, people would say "Why buy Apple's x86 machine when xyz company sells it cheaper?" In which case, Apple would probably have to refuse selling OSX accept on their own PCs, but that'd lock out a good part of the x86 market and not be good from a business standpoint.
I seriously don't see it happening anytime soon.
well technically x86 processors since the PPro have 36bit addressing.
Basically I see PDAs and laptops merging into what looks like just the LCD portion of a laptop, but that has all the ports you need to plug in peripherals, along with solid state drives (with MRAM, Flash, or whatever), plenty of RAM, and the latest and greatest processors so you can run Windows 2000/XP, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Linux, or whatever OS you want on. And of course the screen would be a touch screen with a pen so you could write documents in your own handwriting, if you so choose, or you could use your fingers with the onscreen keyboard (or plug one in if you absolutely need one). And as a matter of portability, the screen would be hinged in a few places to let you fold it up and put it in your pocket...
Sure that kind of stuff is still a ways into the future, but that's what I believe should happen and that would grab a reasonable chunk of the market, if done properly.
If I use both hands do I get 20Mbit? What about 40 if I use my feet?
:)
And if I wear very insulated clothing that also reduces the effects of magnetic fields around me, does that give a cleaner signal and less packet loss?
possibly a grammar problem, more likely a spelling problem.