Um, no. Check out Archos's mp3 jukebox player, and their upcoming one
that supports USB2 and has a color display. It's not like you'll be using
the firewire all the time, and if you do, you'll likely be near power.
The wireless network stuff though, that will drain the battery quickly.
I have one of the older Archos jukes, I get something like 8 hours off 4AA
NiMH's. Adding a color screen would certainly drain the battery, but
there are other battery types out there, and depending on the display
type, how long you keep it on, etc... it may work nicely.
I get plenty of time off my Zaurus, and off my Fiva MPC501's. Even if you
only wind up with two hours of run time, it'll still be a useful enough
device. I know Transmeta claims they've got very low power chips, but a
1GHz Crusoe sounds like a power drainer...
The web site sucks, and true, no details on the display or battery run
time, so it's likely untested and vaporish.
But that windows XP thing, that's what will kill them. :)
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant C Brunson wrote:
>
> 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."
> >
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