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My current weblog.
Monday, October 07, 2002Tablet PCs - the cool portables that come with a free pen
How do you put people off pen computing? Easy - put out a pen computer whose pen facilities seem more or less glued onto a normal computer, with only perfunctory integration with the rest of the platform. [The Register]
To my mind, the upcoming crop of Tablet PCs are a solution in search of a problem. A regular laptop with a touch-screen doesn't do much for me. They need to be smaller, much smaller.
CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins"
Fubar writes "Former Qualcomm engineer Steven Den Beste, Captain of the USS Clueless outlines why he thinks the US is primed to overtake Europe and Japan as the technological leader in cell phone technology. He argues it stems from open competition and the use of CDMA."
Superior technology is irrelevant. The EU's problem is that they legislated the adoption of a certain technology before it was ready. America's problem is that it takes forever for the market to select a plurality of winners. America rarely sees the benefits of a single dominant standard unless it is legislated (think: color television) or the market is manipulated (think: Microsoft "CPU Tax" OEM contracts).
My computer is approaching it's 5th half-birthday. I thought that I would celebrate by swapping my (formerly very expensive) 733MHz PIII for a (now quite cheap) 1.3GHz Celeron... but I discovered that my motherboard's maximum bus multiple is 8x. I knew that I had been overlooking something way back when... I can trade up to an 800MHz Celeron or 1GHz PIII. Not much value for my few upgrade dollars.
Swapping my motherboard out is pretty much unavoidable. I've grown to loath mucking about with computer innards. My previous PC was one of those Frankenstein beasts that had been through five motherboards, four cases, and at least three of everything else... "Never again", I swore.
But here I am, again, needing to create another Frankenstein.
