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May 21, 2007
Computers, Computers, Computers
The chic next to me in the airport had a pretty slick little laptop. I asked her what it was and she said it was a joint venture between Compaq and HP called a TC1100. You can buy them all day long on eBay for $550.00. It's kinda slick because it's small, but it has a good sized keyboard and screen and it's also a tablet pc. So, it has a little pen you can write on the screen with. Also, you can use it without the keyboard as well. I thought it might be a good PC to take into the field for photography. It's smaller and less expensive than my Sony Vaio dual-core Pentium 2.4 Ghz PC. Might be safer to take on a Seadoo or a boxcar than my laptop.
In any event, she told me she got it 3 years ago and they don't make them any more. But, she pointed out that there's a really slick really small computer coming out called the OQO. It's really small. Not sure how practical it would be, but she says she's dying to get one.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on May 21, 2007 at 08:34 PM
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But does it run Linux?
Posted by: Obligatory on May 21, 2007 at 09:38 PM
Why in the world would you want to run Vista on something with those specs? I just downgraded my computer (P4 3.00 GHz 1 GB RAM) back to XP because it was too slow to game on running Vista - plus, Vista's unhappy with OpenGL so I couldn't run Flash, Illustrator, or Photoshop on it with any kind of satisfactory performance.
Posted by: Alice H on May 22, 2007 at 03:33 PM
Those specs being the oqo's
Posted by: Alice H on May 22, 2007 at 03:33 PM
That is a fair point about Vista being pretty much being a resource hog. I think the OQO is too small to use, probably, regardless of the O/S, but what do I know?
Posted by: Rob Kiser on May 23, 2007 at 04:46 PM