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What I would chew my left arm off for..

  • March 15, 2006 at 9:32 am

    #90979

    http://www.oqo.com/hardware/photos/photo02.html

  • March 16, 2006 at 3:58 pm

    #627177

    Interesting. Looks similar to my wife's Sidekick II, though a little bigger.

    Course, she's not running Windows.

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  • March 17, 2006 at 7:03 am

    #627301

    specifications

    • 1GHz Transmeta Crusoe
    • 30GB hard drive (shock-mounted)
    • 512MB DDR RAM
    • Dimensions: 4.9" x 3.4" x 0.9"
    • Weight: 14 ounces
    • 800 x 480 W-VGA 5" transflective display (indoor/outdoor readable)
    • 3D accelerated graphics with 8MB of video RAM
    • QWERTY thumb keyboard with mouse buttons and TrackStik
    • 802.11b wireless
    • Bluetooth wireless
    • 4-pin FireWire (1394)
    • USB 2.0
    • 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
    • Microphone
    • Speaker
    • Digital pen
    • Removable lithium polymer battery
    • Battery life up to three hours, depending on usage
    • OQO docking

  • March 17, 2006 at 8:41 am

    #627355

    This looks kind of like a beefed up version of the Verizon XV6700 that I've been looking at.  They both have the slideout keyboard from the back that changes the screen orientation automatically.  The nice thing about this one for me is VGA support which I need to support an app we may be deploying in the next fiscal year.  Any idea on the price?  I couldn't seem to get a response when I tried the 'buy now' button.  The 6700 sells now for about $299 with contract renewal for 24 months. 

    I've heard that the XV6700 is great as a hand held, but leaves a lot to be desired as a phone which bites.  I thought of getting a bluetooth ear piece for it for an extra $100 but then add the fact that this doesn't have native voice recognition software for dialing (one handed dialing is not possible with this) and it puts the total price up around $450 which is still a bit much for me. 

    As to your original question, there was this Coyote date I had once and when I woke up in the morning... 

     

    My hovercraft is full of eels.

  • March 17, 2006 at 8:50 am

    #627361

    model 01+ ultra personal computer

    1 GHz processor, 30GB HD, 512MB RAM, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, USB 2.0, FireWire®, audio, thumb keyboard, 800x480 indoor/outdoor readable LCD (ships with: removable lithium polymer battery, docking cable, desktop stand, universal power supply, carrying sleeve, and digital pen.)

    (in stock, usually ships within one week)

    $1,899.00

    $1,999.00

    $2,099.00

    includes Word, Excel, Outlook®, PowerPoint®

    $300.00

         <script language=javascript>if(document.centerForm.skuoneplus.value=="")document.centerForm.skuoneplus.value="SKU-100016-US"; </script> 

    There is an interesting cable for expanding to an external monitor and keyboard / mouse.

    I for the record do not own the company nor profit by the company.  I just thought.. finally .... a PDA that is a computer.

    The price is dear but once they find a place to throw a cell phone into it, I'm in.

     

  • March 17, 2006 at 8:53 am

    #627364

    Let me know if I get a finder's fee or if any CIO openings show up, I can end up on the short list.. 

    I do not know much about computers but boy can I kick Chuck Norris's a$$.

    I dont mind working remotely, especially if one of those might end up my way.

     

  • March 17, 2006 at 9:00 am

    #627367

    They could kill ipods or PSP's with it, if they could bundle 1000 songs from some savy reseller.

     

    Hmmmm. That gets me thinking.

  • March 17, 2006 at 9:13 am

    #627370

    I had heard that the Transmeta Crusoe chip is "painfully" slow, to the point of music/video skipping and dropping frames.

    Now the Origami with the Intel Pentium chip.....



    Mark

  • March 17, 2006 at 9:25 am

    #627374

    Well its the smallest SQL Server I've ever seen.

    But you are right there is a better chip out there the '8000' for the device.  This 5800 comes with 512K cache which might allieviate it over the stock 128 it was originally run designed with.

    But disclosing sources never hurt anyone I think MH.

  • March 17, 2006 at 9:34 am

    #627379

    "Let me know if I get a finder's fee or if any CIO openings show up, I can end up on the short list.  "

    Actually, our CEO just retired.  If we got you to run things, maybe we could make these standard issue, hmmm???

     

    "I do not know much about computers but boy can I kick Chuck Norris's a$$."

    I have a hunch that if Chuck Norris had one of these that 1) they'd give it to him free and 2) he'd immediately hack it and put Linux on it. 

     

    "I dont mind working remotely, especially if one of those might end up my way. "

    We STILL don't have a policy for telecommuting or working remotely.  Maybe when you're CEO we can get that done too.  Users seem so much less obnoxious when you're talking to them while poolside with a favorite book and a well chilled adult beverage of choice close at hand.   

    Speaking of which:    Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone! 

    My hovercraft is full of eels.

  • March 17, 2006 at 2:53 pm

    #627446

    Is interesting, but not sure where I'd use it and what I get. When I want to be unencumbered, I usually want no connection to the wired world. Other places I just carry the laptop.

    Green Lantern, just get the Dell 9300. It's good exercise carrying it around !!!!

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  • March 18, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    #627478

    If i'm going laptop.. then I'm going with this:

    http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/EX7/index.asp

    It even comes in Green Lantern green.

    Specs...

    Processor

    bullet Intel® Pentium® 4, 3.0 ~ 3.8GHz + LGA-775 1MB L2 Cache
    bullet Supports HyperThreading Tech.
    bullet Supports Extreme Edition
    bullet Intel 915P + ICH6 Chipset
    bullet 800MHz Front Side Bus

    Memory

    bullet 533MHz PC4200 DDR-2 SODIMMS
    bullet Supports up to 4GB DDR-2 SDRAM
    bullet Dual Channel Memory Architecture (Memory must be selected in pairs)

    Graphics

    bullet Choice of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX or Quadro FX 1400 Go High-Performance Graphics Processors
    bullet 256B DDR SGRAM on board
    bullet 16X PCI-Express Architecture
    bullet External VGA, DVI and TV Out Support
    bullet Microsoft DirectX 9 Support
    bullet Advanced HW Acceleration for DVD Playback
    bullet Built-in TV Tuner w/ Remote (optional)
    bullet User-Upgradeable Graphics Module

    Display

    bullet 17" WSXGA+ or WUXGA Screen (16:10)
    bullet 1680x1050 or 1920 x 1200 Native Resolution

    Communications

    bullet Infrared transfer: 115.2K bps SIR/4M bps FIR,1cm~1M operating distance, IrDA 1.1compliant
    bullet 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet LAN built-in
    bullet Built-in 802.11g Wireless LAN (Optional)
    bullet Bluetooth module (Optional)
    bullet Built-in Video Camera
    bullet 56K Modem with V.90&V.92 compliant

    Connectivity

    bullet 1 x External (PS/2)
    bullet 1 x Parallel port (LPT1)
    bullet 1 x External CRT Monitor
    bullet 4 x USB 2.0 ports
    bullet 1 x Headphone, Mic & Line-in jack
    bullet 1 x RJ45 for 10/100Mb LAN
    bullet 1 x RJ11 Jack for 56K (V.92) Modem
    bullet 2 x mini IEEE 1394a FireWire port
    bullet 1 x SP/DIF Jack
    bullet 1 x infrared file transfer, IrDA 1.1
    bullet 1 x S-Video jack for TV output
    bullet 1 x serial port
    bullet 1 x Type II PCMCIA Slot (PCMCIA 3.0 Standard Compliant)
    bullet 1 x S-Video In
    bullet 1 x S-Video Out
    bullet Bluetooth (Optional)

    Sound System

    bullet AC"97 Compliant Interface
    bullet 3D Stereo enhanced sound system
    bullet Compatible Sound-Blaster PRO
    bullet S/PDIF Digital output (5.1CH)
    bullet Built-in 4 speakers  

    Storage

    bullet Choice of 2 x DVD-ROM/DVD-RW/CD-RW/Combo Drive
    bullet 2 x 2.5" HDD Bay Supporting up to Ultra-DMA 133
    bullet 6-in-1 card reader MMC/SD/ MS/CF/IBM Microdrive

    Weight and Dimensions

    bullet 15.5" (393mm) Wide
    bullet 11.7" (299mm Deep
    bullet 1.9" (49mm) High
    bullet 12.4lbs (5.6Kg)

    Keyboard / Pointing Device

    bullet Fully functional number pad
    bullet Function keys control audio, display contrast, and power management.
    bullet 3 instant launch keys for web, email and favorite application.
    bullet Integrated Touchpad With Scroll Up/Down Slider

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