Ultrapersonal Computing

Nic Name • Apr 21, 2002 3:44 pm
I want OQO.

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verbatim • Apr 21, 2002 5:13 pm
Sign me up!

You cant buy these things yet, can you?
Nic Name • Apr 21, 2002 8:54 pm
Later this year ...

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Hubris Boy • Apr 22, 2002 3:48 am
[SIZE=3][COLOR=red]DANGER! Incredibly annoying Flash site![/COLOR][/SIZE] :mad:
dave • Apr 22, 2002 9:10 am
Honestly, while I'm fascinated by the idea of having a full-fledged computer in my pocket, I don't think that the public is ready for it.

I'm thinking about buying a Sharp Zaurus (my boss has one and it's pretty slick), but not as a PDA - rather, as a computer in my pocket. I love the idea of that. Typing up emails on the metro or while I'm sitting somewhere wasting time and then sending them off when I get to an 802.11b network. Browsing the web from anywhere. Just having a small computer to play around with.

I don't think, however, that OQO can price this where it needs to be priced. They've said $1,000 - and it's surely worth that. But I don't think that most people are going to want to pay that kind of money for something so small. Sure, it's a computer. But it could get lost pretty easily. Hell, you could put it through the laundry without much trouble.

I don't see this gaining a market beyond businesspersons unless the price is lowered drastically.
Nic Name • May 30, 2002 10:06 pm
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Colin Hunter displays the prototype model of tiny sized ultra-personal computer. Transmeta said its architecture of the next generation Crusoe 1000 will allow full Windows XP wireless computing. Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP
l still want one!

But could we see the Rachel Hunter model?
BobbyK • Jun 5, 2002 11:04 am
But could we see the Rachel Hunter model?


Nice one, Nic...