Thursday, February 7, 2002
IBM pulls out, brushes off an 800 MHz Meta Pad
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "NEWS" @ 01:37 PM
http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68107,00.html
Only IBM would put together an 800 Mhz, 128MB RAM, 10GB hard disk and a 3D graphics chip with 8MB of RAM, brush it off and say: "Nope! It's not for sale! It's just an experiment!"
I have always admired IBM for their technical engineering and expertise. If only they could obtain just a bit more marketing and software IQ...!
According to this article IBM says: "The Meta Pad project is part of our overall strategy in the pervasive space: building the technology inside computing devices and building and managing the infrastructure that will simplify the unthinkable task of connecting billions of devices to billions of things."
Here's pervasive (the most frequently used word in IBM Powerpoint slides related to mobile technologies) for ya' all: "Users will be expected to customize the machine to fit their needs, the company said. The device can be transformed into a handheld, desktop, laptop, tablet or wearable computer "in seconds" without having to be rebooted".
Source: Bob Overlock
Only IBM would put together an 800 Mhz, 128MB RAM, 10GB hard disk and a 3D graphics chip with 8MB of RAM, brush it off and say: "Nope! It's not for sale! It's just an experiment!"
I have always admired IBM for their technical engineering and expertise. If only they could obtain just a bit more marketing and software IQ...!
According to this article IBM says: "The Meta Pad project is part of our overall strategy in the pervasive space: building the technology inside computing devices and building and managing the infrastructure that will simplify the unthinkable task of connecting billions of devices to billions of things."
Here's pervasive (the most frequently used word in IBM Powerpoint slides related to mobile technologies) for ya' all: "Users will be expected to customize the machine to fit their needs, the company said. The device can be transformed into a handheld, desktop, laptop, tablet or wearable computer "in seconds" without having to be rebooted".
Source: Bob Overlock
