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Landos Mustache · Oct 14, 2004, 11:55 AM

Well 3 years later it has shipped and sounds like crap to me:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...RSS,RSS,00.asp

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/te...&position=

http://reviews.cnet.com/OQO_Model_01...tml?tag=glance

demograph68 · Oct 14, 2004, 11:58 AM

Smaller doesn't always mean better.

waxcrash · Oct 14, 2004, 11:59 AM

I think it is pretty cool, but way over priced. If it was $1,000 USD I'd get one.

AppleCello · Oct 14, 2004, 01:10 PM

i think its an amazingly cool computer. Its just a question of cost/value. Its expensive for what it can do. I would be willing to spend no mroe than 1000 either for something with that funcitonality. it IS pretty slow compared to regular notebooks. talk about paying for miniaturization.

some day these will be affordable.

Landos Mustache · Oct 14, 2004, 01:23 PM

I dunno, you can get a full featured laptop that isn't too much bigger for far less. It is also fast, has a CD drive and does more.

I mean hold this thing with a touch sensitive screen that only works with a pen and then hold a 12 inch powerbook G4 and you decide.

icruise · Oct 14, 2004, 02:59 PM

If it had come out a bit earlier and closer to the price point they had originally bandied about, it would have been amazing. It's still pretty cool, but for $2000 you can get a laptop that would totally kick its ass performance-wise AND get a PDA. I would have considered buying one if it were half the price, but as it is I have a feeling it will flop.

Landos Mustache · Oct 14, 2004, 03:09 PM

Originally posted by Icruise:
If it had come out a bit earlier and closer to the price point they had originally bandied about, it would have been amazing. It's still pretty cool, but for $2000 you can get a laptop that would totally kick its ass performance-wise AND get a PDA. I would have considered buying one if it were half the price, but as it is I have a feeling it will flop.

I think they will come out with a rev2 as fast as they can like the Nokia NGage did but by then it will be too late.

turtle777 · Oct 14, 2004, 03:54 PM

FUGLY !

-t

Link · Oct 14, 2004, 04:59 PM

Some of you guys are probably just dissing it because apple didn't make it. *sigh*

I think it's one of the most awesome versions of the "tablet PC" yet, since it's actually USEFUL unlike a tablet PC. The problem is, it's a rather small startup -- they probably don't have a lot of money to invest so they can't lose too much on the product, thus the crazy price. It will eventually go down, if anyone buys into it.

Frankly I think that + a bluetooth phone is *WORLDS* more useful than a sony P900, a danger hiptop, or any of those other 'convergence phones', and less asinine than a worthless PDA. Sure it has it's caveats, but what doesn't?

I know some of you have been watering your mouths for an apple product like this.. how many times have I heard about the apple PDA you keep ragging on about? Well this is close, for now

Landos Mustache · Oct 14, 2004, 05:05 PM

Originally posted by Link:

I think it's one of the most awesome versions of the "tablet PC" yet, since it's actually USEFUL unlike a tablet PC.

"Although the OQO Model 01 is a stylus-based machine, the included operating system is the original edition of Windows XP Professional, not the Tablet edition."

So why is it more useful? Smaller screen, slower and not touch sensitive. Not to mention to damn slow to read handwriting or voice recognition.

Getting a PDA for 1/5 the cost and weight can do the same thing.

strictlyplaid · Oct 14, 2004, 05:07 PM

Originally posted by Link:
Some of you guys are probably just dissing it because apple didn't make it. *sigh*

Link · Oct 14, 2004, 05:12 PM

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Getting a PDA for 1/5 the cost and weight can do the same thing.

A PDA can't run MS word, can't be used for powerpoint presentations, can't be used (well easily), to remotely admin a server (telnet/SSH does wonders), it can't be used as a regular computer.. that's what I'm saying!

This can. Sure maybe it's not perfect, but what did you expect? Ok let me toss you $100,000, go make a damn miniature computer nobody else has made before, make it perfect, and make it cheap. You wouldn't even get past moulding the case prototype.

Landos Mustache · Oct 14, 2004, 05:17 PM

Originally posted by Link:
A PDA can't run MS word, can't be used for powerpoint presentations, can't be used (well easily), to remotely admin a server (telnet/SSH does wonders), it can't be used as a regular computer.. that's what I'm saying!

This can. Sure maybe it's not perfect, but what did you expect? Ok let me toss you $100,000, go make a damn miniature computer nobody else has made before, make it perfect, and make it cheap. You wouldn't even get past moulding the case prototype.

I'd skip all that and buy a 12 inch laptop that can do all that. This OQO is not something that you fit in your pocket so what is the point.

PDA's can read word docs also.

Demonhood · Oct 14, 2004, 05:42 PM

a tablet PC/Mac isn't worth it to me if it isn't pressure sensitive (like a wacom tablet).

FulcrumPilot · Oct 14, 2004, 05:48 PM

Now this could be another ipod killa in disguise!

Superchicken · Oct 14, 2004, 06:32 PM

You know, this is the sorta thing that if Apple did it it'd be worth buying, if Sony did it it might be worth buying... but... no.

A) Windows.
I know they couldn't stick OS X on it but... sigh.

B) the proc sucks, I bet if they had gone with a PPC Linux and a G3 proc they'd be in better shape.

C) The name is dumb.

That said, I am waiting for the day Apple does something like this.

AirPort enabled thin client in PDA form. Does all it's processing through your home Mac, runs a trimmed down version of OS X on either a Microdrive or an iPod size HD, address book, basic word processing, (Inkwell) ability to use a Bluetooth wireless keyboard, (Think either the current Wireless keyboard or something very similar but smaller) for say students in classes. Trimmed down Apps like Photoshop and Final Cut Mobile editions (sketching and doing colour adjustments on the couch while your Mac does all the real heavy lifting.)

There's so much Apple could do... but sooo much money would go into it. Oh well, I'd love to know what goes on in the deep recesses of Apple designing new products. I bet Steve has something like this already.

tavilach · Oct 14, 2004, 10:07 PM

The market for things like this doesn't exist, and won't exist.

Things are either too big or too small, or both. Tablets are too big for what they do. This is too big for normal computing. This is too small for viewing the web.

I'm not saying that we won't advance, but it'll be an advance to another level...such as holographic eyewear-embedded displays, or something else revolutionary. Not tangible displays that can never be the right size...

The Wolf · Oct 31, 2004, 08:37 PM

This thing is waaaaay cool. However, I wouldn't buy it (but ONLY b/c it runs Windows) - but this is still really amazing! fwiw, I already own 2 PBs, and I would absolutely buy an Apple version of this the second it was available.

There is a market for it. Imagine (in the future) if it had the ability to also serve as a cell phone! You could make regular calls, Skype people internationally, browse the web from anywhere, at any time, using either AirPort or the cellular connection. Are you kidding me! This is the ULTIMATE business tool.

P.S. I know I am getting a little ahead of myself. Actually, for now I would settle for a Bluetooth phone from Verizon that would sync with my PB

shabbasuraj · Oct 31, 2004, 08:58 PM

Sony's closest thing maybe is this thing...

http://www.dynamism.com/vz-90/

I would love to see much of these things (on this website) that are not imported to North America.

I have read some good reviews with some of those sub-notebook laptops on this page...

Anyone have any of them (i.e., the Panasonic or Samsung ones..?)

DeathToWindows · Oct 31, 2004, 09:36 PM

A zaurus 6000 w/ a modified bootkernal does the same thing... for $400

Cool object tho