More Tiny PCs
from the they're-coming... dept
We've recently posted a few stories about the OQO, and last week I showed the Tiqit tiny computer at the O'Reilly Conference, so it seems like now is the time that "tiny computers" are getting their fair share of attention. When we first posted about the OQO, someone commented that it looked like a project IBM was working on, called the MetaPad. Now we find out that a new startup, called Antelope is getting set to make their own tiny computers based on that IBM design. There is still some question as to how far beyond the "ooh, that looks cool" factor these will go. Whether or not people find them useful enough to buy remains to be seen.
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I just want one that will fit in my pocket
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Anyway, I'd bet the first real "practical" use of them won't be for consumers, but for factories or other business uses, where more mobile employees will need access to enterprise software, and they'll be able to do it without having to have the software rewritten for the palm or a WinCE device.
As for battery life, the OQO folks claim their batteries last anywhere from 7 to 9 hours or so. The Tiqit people say that's impossible. In their experience, running a WinXP tiny computer at full power, the battery lasted about 3.5 hours. Beats most laptops.
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