Re: [NTLK] New Ultra Portable

From: Grant C Brunson (grant_at_burneffect.com)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 14:56:06 EDT


No kidding... I've heard, you EE's out there may know better, that the single largest obstacle to portable computing is the battery. We're still being forced to use (relatively) ancient technology by the battery companies who buy the patients for revolutionary (size and life) innovations and shelve them so we'll keep buying the AA's that come off their highly efficient and expensively tooled production lines...

-----Original Message-----

Hmmm, with a hard drive, firewire AND a color LCD? Can
we say 5 minute battery life?
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)

--- "Grant C.Brunson" <grant_at_burneffect.com> wrote:
>
> Well, the pictures *are* less than stellar, and the
> unit itself looks a little rough around the edges...
> Lots of time spent on the flash for the web site
> though. Lots of production value, but they couldn't
> spring for some high quality .jpg's? Yah, I do
> smell some vaporware...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:25:43PM -0400, Dave
> wrote:
> >
> > You don't have a URL, do you? I'd love to see such
> a thing.
> >
>
> it made slashdot yesterday.
>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/16/1732252&mode=nested
>
>
> the comment at the end of the article pretty much
> sums it up: "Now, only
> if this didn't sound like vaporware."
>
> --
> eric a. Farris eafarris_at_bigfoot.com

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