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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.
Posted by Rob Kiser on May 21, 2007 at 8:34 PM
Comments
But does it run Linux?
Posted by: Obligatory on May 21, 2007 at 9:38 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 3:33 PM
Those specs being the oqo's
Posted by: Alice H on May 22, 2007 at 3:33 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 4:46 PM