I wasn't clear in what I was trying to get across. Yes I know it isn't a netbook, but it shows the extreme levels of low power use that can be achieved. It
is
a computer though. I'd bet in a couple of years there will be chips with comparable power use levels that will be able to do netbook level tasks.
I just purchased a Wikireader, which uses a low power Epson S1C33E07 60 mhz RISC processor, not unlike an ARM. It will run for 90 hours on 2 aaa batteries. And that includes a 240 * 208 capacitive touch screen.
No doubt, it's heavy, but I am a typical "large" American. As long as you use your legs, it's not that bad. Me and the guy that owned it slid it up the stairs on a piece of wood. Only had to lift it enough to get it tilted up properly. Then rolled it through the house to the door, Lifted it to carry it out to the driveway, rolled it to the truck, and then lifted it into the back of the truck. Once I got it home, lift it out of truck, roll to back steps, slide up board to back porch where it sat until I fixed it. Then one little lift to get it in the house and roll it the rest of the way.
It's worth it if you are a cheap bastard like I am.;)
I didn't want a damned avatar for Xbox360, but the bastards ground me down with the annoying pop-ups everytime you'd turn the damn thing on. I ended up making the most non-descript avatar I could.
You bet. That was why it was free. Had to get it out of a guys basement. It had been there for 10 years. It's not bad in the house though. It's mounted on wheels so it's easy to roll around. 2 people can pick it up though. I think it weighs around 150 kilos.
I have no idea what my 60" Phillips CRT projector draws. Moot point anyway,as TV's over 58" appear to be exempt. Gotta love Craig's list though. Got it for free and all I had to do was clean it, replace the coupling fluid, and do an alignment. Cost me all of $30.
I was a dummy. I can never think of anything I want for Christmas, and this would have been perfect to tell my wife. Unfortunately, I ordered it before I thought of the Christmas angle. On the positive side, If it's good, I may buy another as a gift.
I don't know if it is correct, but Engadget was reporting that it uses an 8gb flash card. I would guess that might be the case as the updates are said to be 4gb+ in size.
I just purchased one. Seems like a cool toy, and I love the fact that it runs for a year on a set of batteries. Looking forward to playing around with it.
One of the other posters mentioned something like rfid tags for the phone to ping to localize the blockage. It's not a bad idea, but impractical to implement. I still like the idea of a parent being able to block mobile use of the kid's phones though.
The train thing should be easy enough, since train tracks don't move around and there aren't that many of them. A small table of local vectors should cover that, or make it server based. The passenger thing would be more difficult or possibly impossible. It would be nice though, to have a motion locking function for teen's cell phones that are part of a family plan.
Wouldn't this be fairly easy to address technically? With GPS in a phone it should be trivial to detect motion and prevent those functions from working.
I notice that he neglected to add in the cost of upgrades to the system that were driven by WOW. A couple I know have spent a ton of money on that to make WOW run mo-better.
"And the system in question is by no means top of the line, either. It's got a T5450 processor (1.66GHz Core2Duo), 2GB of RAM, a 120GB 7200rpm laptop hard drive, and a 256MB GeForce 8600M GT."
It cracks me up when people say stuff like this. That would have been a bad-ass machine a few years ago. It still has tons of horsepower as far as running an OS goes. XP runs pretty well on an old AMD XP-1700 based system with a 768mb of ram.
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The primary vulnerability was mitigated by using Firefox and Open Office. The drive by needs IE or Powerpoint or Word to execute.
Heck, I just did "This is a test", it transcribed it as "Hello".
Yahoo will be bing soon.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Yahoo-Delay-Search-Deal-to-Dot-Is-Cross-Ts-599609/
Reframelt?? I was wondering what Google was going to do with snow-melt.
Sounds like Kanjorski is going full retard.
It's a cocotokamak!
I wasn't clear in what I was trying to get across. Yes I know it isn't a netbook, but it shows the extreme levels of low power use that can be achieved. It
a computer though.
I'd bet in a couple of years there will be chips with comparable power use levels that will be able to do netbook level tasks.
I just purchased a Wikireader, which uses a low power Epson S1C33E07 60 mhz RISC processor, not unlike an ARM. It will run for 90 hours on 2 aaa batteries. And that includes a 240 * 208 capacitive touch screen.
Long live the rotating,flaming skull!
No doubt, it's heavy, but I am a typical "large" American. As long as you use your legs, it's not that bad.
Me and the guy that owned it slid it up the stairs on a piece of wood. Only had to lift it enough to get it tilted up properly. Then rolled it through the house to the door, Lifted it to carry it out to the driveway, rolled it to the truck, and then lifted it into the back of the truck. Once I got it home, lift it out of truck, roll to back steps, slide up board to back porch where it sat until I fixed it. Then one little lift to get it in the house and roll it the rest of the way.
It's worth it if you are a cheap bastard like I am. ;)
I didn't want a damned avatar for Xbox360, but the bastards ground me down with the annoying pop-ups everytime you'd turn the damn thing on. I ended up making the most non-descript avatar I could.
You bet. That was why it was free. Had to get it out of a guys basement. It had been there for 10 years.
It's not bad in the house though. It's mounted on wheels so it's easy to roll around. 2 people can pick it up though. I think it weighs around 150 kilos.
I have no idea what my 60" Phillips CRT projector draws. Moot point anyway,as TV's over 58" appear to be exempt. Gotta love Craig's list though. Got it for free and all I had to do was clean it, replace the coupling fluid, and do an alignment. Cost me all of $30.
I was a dummy. I can never think of anything I want for Christmas, and this would have been perfect to tell my wife. Unfortunately, I ordered it before I thought of the Christmas angle. On the positive side, If it's good, I may buy another as a gift.
I don't know if it is correct, but Engadget was reporting that it uses an 8gb flash card. I would guess that might be the case as the updates are said to be 4gb+ in size.
I just purchased one. Seems like a cool toy, and I love the fact that it runs for a year on a set of batteries. Looking forward to playing around with it.
Only if that New York Country Lawyer is a hyperchicken too!
I do that with most games that have bad drm or copy protection. Buy it if I like it, and run the cracked version instead.
Well....duh.
That would be 40 years, but only if you are Jewish.
One of the other posters mentioned something like rfid tags for the phone to ping to localize the blockage. It's not a bad idea, but impractical to implement.
I still like the idea of a parent being able to block mobile use of the kid's phones though.
The train thing should be easy enough, since train tracks don't move around and there aren't that many of them. A small table of local vectors should cover that, or make it server based. The passenger thing would be more difficult or possibly impossible. It would be nice though, to have a motion locking function for teen's cell phones that are part of a family plan.
Wouldn't this be fairly easy to address technically? With GPS in a phone it should be trivial to detect motion and prevent those functions from working.
I notice that he neglected to add in the cost of upgrades to the system that were driven by WOW. A couple I know have spent a ton of money on that to make WOW run mo-better.
"And the system in question is by no means top of the line, either. It's got a T5450 processor (1.66GHz Core2Duo), 2GB of RAM, a 120GB 7200rpm laptop hard drive, and a 256MB GeForce 8600M GT."
It cracks me up when people say stuff like this. That would have been a bad-ass machine a few years ago. It still has tons of horsepower as far as running an OS goes. XP runs pretty well on an old AMD XP-1700 based system with a 768mb of ram.