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mobile88 - 2008-02-12 6:21 AM
I love the idea of being able to have the power of my laptop yet still be able to touch type and fit it all in my jacket pocket. I hope that option is available soon as I too would love to not lug my bulky heavy laptop. I think paying $1500 is no big deal if it can replace my laptop and fit into my coat pocket. I do not understand why some would feel it needs to be below $600? what kind of laptop can you buy for that? and to have it that small it would clearly be worth more for the technology to enable it to be that small. I know the majority of the people in my company whom are also sales reps would definately buy one at that would be hundreds of reps. What I hate is the hassle of a laptop being both heavy, and the constant worry about theft as it is so visible. I think the price is purely dependant on the specifications. If it has a large amount of ram and more memory then it would warrant more dollars. I like HPC's but I still have to carry a laptop too becuase I can not run my work applications that are only available in desktop OS. If I could buy one device to replace both I would do so in a heartbeat!
I hear you....
My main problem is at the moment anything small enough to fit in the pocket is going to end up with IRO 1 - 1.5 hr battery life and no instant on...
IMHO if linux can run on a J728 with office apps that are fully compatible with MS office and it can use firefox
(and opera is available for linux
). Then we are not all that far away from a device that can have battery life and the ability to do all the office tasks you require.
Not sure what will happen first. An X86 processor that has low enough power requirements
(without being cut down and slow for use with windows
) or another processor
(Arm or Mips
) being used in a unit that can do all the office tasks without windows.
I think it won't be long until someone makes somthing like an EEEpc but with a touchscreen instead of a trackpad so you can shrink that dimension to the width of the keyboard
( I think it would almost be coat pocket size if you did that and probs in the same size or slightly smaller than a 900c
).
It does make me wonder though what office tasks you need to do that can't be done on an HPC? There is a fine wordprocessor and spreadsheet, there is syncable email and contacts, there is database software, you can even do powerpoint presentations, there are skype applications, you can send email and sms via phone or phone card...
If there are any business tasks you think an HPC can't handle I would be quite intrested in what they are
(just from a curiosity point of view
). Half the time I think having a full PC that can fit in the pocket only seems like a good idea and once you lay out $1200 or there abouts you find your only using it for excel, word etc... and the boot time makes it a royal pain compared to your old HPC.
I don't think people actually want a full PC
(esspecially office users
) I think what they really have in mind is an HPC with fast desktop quality applications. I know which would be more usefull.
John
Edited by mr-mac 2008-02-12 5:21 AM