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Photo credit: Antelope Technologies
Antelope Technologies Modular Computing Core comes with a desktop cradle, a foldable keyboard and a sleeve for easier handheld and portable use. It contains a 1GHz Crusoe processor from Transmeta with 256MB of memory. The PC's dimensions are 5.03 inches long, 2.9 inches wide and 0.74 inches thick.
- Small PCs will not take off!
- by rturner2 November 29, 2004 2:30 AM PST
- Small PCs will NOT take off in any big way for the following reasons:
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(4 Comments)- limited use (do not fully replace full blown PC)
- screen real estate is too small (who wants to pay a lot of money to go back to 800x600?)
- Windows XP takes far to long to load (compared with other mobile OSes)
Small PCs will only take off when they fully replace my desktop machine and have a large screen that can foldout or rollout from the small form factor.
At the end of the day, I don't want (or have the money for) yet another device - I already have my cell phone, MP3 player (which will be suffer increasing competition from cell phones in the years to come just like the PDA market), gameboy and computer.