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August 29, 2005
OQO first look
I was at a party yesterday and met someone who works for OQO, so I got a chance to look at the device. It's a pretty impressive piece of engineering, but ultimately something I don't think I'm interested in. Physically it's about the size of your average airport novel and weighs just under a pound. This doesn't sound like much, but in person it's a lot bigger than I'd want to carry around in my pocket (even my Treo 600, weighing in at less than half the weight, feels like a brick in my pocket half the time.) And once your into the business of having to carry it around in a bag, then the one of the more capable ultralite laptops starts to look pretty attractive as an alternative, since you can get serious work done on one of those.Posted by ekr at August 29, 2005 7:53 AM | Filed under:
Comments
Need I say it: gumstix: 80mmx20mmx6mm weighs 8g. No screen of course (unless you add your own) but who needs a screen?
Posted by: Craig Hughes at August 29, 2005 10:30 AM
The new Razorberry is still too big, but much lighter than a Treo 650. If they only made it a little more narrow!
Posted by: Steve Purpura at August 31, 2005 2:59 PM