Yes because spending millions of dollars an entirely PC based device, where you'll have to redesign everything from scratch anyway is brilliant. Did you even think this through?
Apple has more of a clue than OQO about making small devices and shoving hardware in them. OQO is mostly a couple of guys from various big name vendors who learned their tricks from the likes of Apple and Intel.
Apple will never purchase OQO.
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Originally posted by Splinemodel
The guys who started OQO were Apple expats, and as far as I've been told, the "Model 01" has been having some technical issues. If Apple were to make a handheld PC, they would probably just buy back OQO, dump the shitty Transmeta CPU for a PPC, and spend some time resolving the current issues.
Yes because spending millions of dollars an entirely PC based device, where you'll have to redesign everything from scratch anyway is brilliant. Did you even think this through?
Apple has more of a clue than OQO about making small devices and shoving hardware in them. OQO is mostly a couple of guys from various big name vendors who learned their tricks from the likes of Apple and Intel.
Apple will never purchase OQO.
I believe they approached Apple with the OQO and were turned down.
I've used a OQO for about 5 minutes. I quite liked it, regardless of the flaws. I certainly didn't enjoy it enough to pay that kind of money for one. It's a compelling piece of hardware, though.
For what I need, on the road, I'd much rather have an OQO sized device than my current Powerbook. I could then justify spending the money on a nice shiny new 20" G5 iMac to save my eyesight at home.
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Originally posted by audiopollution
It's what I saw. :-D
Apple has more of a clue than OQO about making small devices and shoving hardware in them. OQO is mostly a couple of guys from various big name vendors who learned their tricks from the likes of Apple and Intel.
Apple will never purchase OQO.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
The guys who started OQO were Apple expats, and as far as I've been told, the "Model 01" has been having some technical issues. If Apple were to make a handheld PC, they would probably just buy back OQO, dump the shitty Transmeta CPU for a PPC, and spend some time resolving the current issues.
Originally posted by webmail
It's what I saw. :-D
Can you elaborate a bit? Materials, etc. Anything.
Could it have just been the fabled projector?
Originally posted by webmail
Yes because spending millions of dollars an entirely PC based device, where you'll have to redesign everything from scratch anyway is brilliant. Did you even think this through?
Apple has more of a clue than OQO about making small devices and shoving hardware in them. OQO is mostly a couple of guys from various big name vendors who learned their tricks from the likes of Apple and Intel.
Apple will never purchase OQO.
I believe they approached Apple with the OQO and were turned down.
I've used a OQO for about 5 minutes. I quite liked it, regardless of the flaws. I certainly didn't enjoy it enough to pay that kind of money for one.
For what I need, on the road, I'd much rather have an OQO sized device than my current Powerbook. I could then justify spending the money on a nice shiny new 20" G5 iMac to save my eyesight at home.
Originally posted by audiopollution
Can you elaborate a bit? Materials, etc. Anything.
Could it have just been the fabled projector?
Originally posted by webmail
It was clear plastic. It looked like a small computer board inside as well as a smallish harddrive. i didn't get to touch it.
Care to sketch it out for us? Just roughly?
I say: projector, with airport card doing streaming video.
Hmm..
Originally posted by Token
Webmail: It was cool to the touch, but you didn't touch it?!?
Hmm..
Token....I think your nose has sniffed out something rotten in the state of Denmark...
--B