abyssknight - 2006-01-07 9:02 PM
It's at CES, thus it is most likely real.
. . .
The price point has to be do-able, OQO's are going for about 2 grand why can't this go for $1500?
CES doesn't prevent companies from going out of business... But like I said before, benefit of the doubt
OQO already uses the cheapest mobile hardware that can run XP, including a cheapo Transmeta CPU
(1.0GHz
) that's not even made anymore; whereas the DualCor will need to use a substitute
(1.5GHz according to their website, a VIA chip according to CNet
) that is likely more costly than a discontinued chip, and on top of that the extra stuff to run CE with. I wouldn't count on an Intel XScale. Perhaps a Texas Instrument or Motorola ARM chip would have made more sense. But again according to their website, it's 400MHz, according to CNet it's XScale, so I seriously dun-no.
OQO doesn't seem to be jacking the price either, unlike Sony. How can DualCor undercut OQO's pricing by 25% while offering nothing less, and a whole lot more?
BTW your original link to dlmag.com mentioned an interview with DualCor CEO that would have much more information, to be posted yesterday
(the 7th
). But so far, nope.
Here's CNet's story tho:
http://www.cnet.com/4831-11405_1-6412631.html?tag=allEdited by takwu 2006-01-08 8:57 PM