Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:06 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 17:41 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Palm Foleo to use Wind River Linux
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Wind River said that over the coming months, it will work with Palm to
>>>>>| port the Foleo's software stack to Wind River's Platform for Consumer
>>>>>| Devices, Linux Edition.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6844359014.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here comes another one (device, I mean). The day of the desktop is
>>>> looking very, well, dead and buried.
>>>>
>>>> Thinking somewhat laterally to the 3D driver stuff, will there be any
>>>> need for 3D rendering in a world where almost nobody is using a desktop
>>>> PC anyway? The power consumed is considerable, of course, and the
>>>> gains, unless you're a gamer, more or less not worth the effort.
>>>>
>>> Have a look at this new one. Take your large desktop everywhere you go (and
>>> let the CPU-intensive stuff run remotely).
>>>
>>> Palm Foleo bundles remote PC access ware
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Palm today announced that when it ships later "this summer," the Foleo
>>>| mobile companion will come equipped with remote PC access software from
>>>| LogMeIn. The software will enable users to quickly and securely access
>>>| files and network resources on their home or work computers, Palm said.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2274337184.html
>>>
>>
>> It's a neat solution, although I find VNC and SSH are adequate for my
>> humble needs. It's amazing how much you can achieve with just ssh
>> console access, in my experience, let alone with x-forwarding and so
>> on.
>>
>> The Nokia 800 has vnc clients and servers, as well as telnet client, ssh
>> clients & servers, so it has all that flexibility.
>
> The size of the screen and keyboard remain an issue (productivity wise), which
> is why Foleo is a brilliant device with great potential.
>
I use a bluetooth keyboard with my N800 which is normal sized when
opened up, and seems to work very well.
I don't find the screen size a huge issue, since I use it in order to be
highly mobile, so having a smaller size is good.
That said, I'm sure there's room in the market for slightly larger
devices, too.
Looking at the space next to me, there's an old Z88 Sinclair laptop, a
Psion 2; an Osaris (Psion) 4, Psion 5MX, a couple of old Toshiba Pentium
1 75MHz laptops, a Nokia N770 and a Nokia N800.
It's like a shrine to portable computing!
I've also got an older Rockwell PR100 calculator - one of the earliest
progammable ones, and I used to have a sinclair programmable with the
purple display, but that disappeared long ago. I have an HP28S, though,
too.
The Windows era resulted in the fewest number of alternative devices
there ever was, but as we come out of that, we can see the huge amount
of suppressed demand, suppressed by the Microsoft lock-in. The standard
question used to be "does it work with windows", meaning, can I put the
Microsoft proprietary stuff onto it.
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