On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:42 am, Brad Fuller wrote:
Any thoughts about the specs of the Dynabook and why we are still waiting? (hmm... is the XO is close?... wonder if parts will be available)
AFAIK, the driving factors for personal computing has always been battery life, weight, networking and tight integration between hardware and operating software (i.e. no superfluous components) in that order. It is frustrating to see computing devices sold by megahertz, multi-core, RAM/HDD capacity, camera megapixels and so on.
I think the word book in the name biases us to think of a screen built into the machine. If we drop this assumption, then a Dynabook could just be a small computer embedded in a foldable panel that opens out to a 84-key keyboard and a small 2" preview OLED screen at the top and a resistive touchpad at the bottom. A micro-projector would cast a screen upto 17". USB slots along the edges take in flash memory cards for user-data. When a card is plugged in, the machine starts up automatically and personalizes itself based on files on card. When the card is ejected, the system shuts down.
Dreaming :-) .. Subbu