April 9th, 2007 — Hardware, umpc
Check out this OQO2 demo video video by Kenrick. Even with the Via 1.5Ghz CPU performance seems good enough for the small form factor. It’s doubtful someone will be stocking it in NZ, so I’ll probably have to wait until I’m next in Hong Kong before I can check out how it feels in the hand.
From Gottabemobile.
April 6th, 2007 — Hardware
The HTC Advantage is a large PocketPC WM5 based system with a magnetic snap-to keyboard. Potentially could be a interesting, but lack of support for things like Activetcl and Openvpn for my accounting system would make it not so useful as a small portable computer. It could make a good replacement for a hx4700 as a LIT based ebook reader. Carrying another power blister around would be a PITA though, so it would probably be good only from home use.
From IT Redux.
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April 5th, 2007 — Hardware
This homebrew recipe from Gizmodo via jkontherun puts the OEM SANdisk pricing indicative at $11/GB into perpective.
Using CF cards as IDE disk replacements is quite common for embedded devices, but it is quite clever to devise a method to use this in ‘standard’ computing.
April 3rd, 2007 — Hardware
Some useful tips on buying an HDTV.
April 3rd, 2007 — Hardware
Wonder how the performance of the Via processor compares to the Core Solo. The interpolated zoom option is pretty cool.
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April 3rd, 2007 — Hardware
I think the last 10s comment will be the feature that stops me from getting either of these two units. Lack of touch-screen/tablet functionality seems a bit of a shame for systems this size.
Update: Seems the OQO2 does has a digital pen option.
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April 1st, 2007 — Hardware
Nice and small thin client hardware: Ndiyo » A sneak preview.
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March 28th, 2007 — Hardware
Some follow ups on the disk reliability studies that have been going on recently: Using MTBF and Time Dependent Reliability for disks.
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March 28th, 2007 — Hardware
From Moore’s Law and memory to hit physics wall:
“You get into the 25nm regime, and there may need to be a new structure for nonvolatile memory,” said Mike Splinter, CEO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied Materials Inc., the world’s biggest supplier of tools for making microchips. “I’m quite nervous about this, because 25nm is not that far away, and if you have to change a process in a couple generations, then that is really challenging,” Splinter said in a recent interview.
The transition to large solid state Drives might not be so clear cut.
March 19th, 2007 — Hardware