If this ran Mac OS X I'd want Santa to drop it into my socking for Christmas, even for the bling, bling factor alone I might even be prepared to put up with Windoze XP.
This is the OQO and it's kind of where the Laptop meets the Tablet PC meets a PDA. The New York Times seemed to think that you could slip one into your pocket but I'd venture to day that these pockets would have to be tailored by Roc-A-Wear or some other baggy trousered hip hop stylist.
As gorgeous as it looks I don't think that it's the future anymore than lugging your complete hi-fi system around on your shoulder was when stereo boom boxes were all the rage - (just look at the iPod which based around the Desktop PC as digital hub it's reduced all the tech to be cheap and functional) . OQO is also massively overpriced at $2,000 a go and under spec'd with a Scrooge like 20Gb hard disc, 256Mb RAM and a 1 GHz Crusoe processor. Battery life up to 3 hours, depending on use, which means don't travel too far from a power source.
But I do think it's a bit of a pointer as to where education centric PDA's may be headed, for example, I'd like to see a PDA with an internal hard disc to record and playback loads of video, I like the keyboard design of the OQO but I've got used to the thumb board of the Palm already. Foldable screens or at least the ability to plug my PDA directly to a higher resolution screen would be handy too.
check out OQO's very slick website
here and don't miss their lifestyle association video clip either found under the hardware section.
My answer to the question "would you really buy a bunch of gadgets to liberate data from your PC..." is um.. yes, I leave home with an iPod and a Treo 600
I would be interested to hear what other readers here think or if there are other new devices we should check out
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