Sunday, May 4, 2003
Intel's Personal Server - The End of the PDA and Laptop?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 09:00 PM
http://www.intel.com/research/exploratory/personal_server.htm
"A new class of mobile device that utilizes advances in processing, storage, and communication technologies to provide ubiquitous access to personal information and applications through the existing fixed infrastructure."
It has no screen or other user interface. You instead utilize nearby screens, printers and internet connections via a "low-power short-range wireless" (note they didn't say bluetooth) connection.
Well, it sounds cool, but you are just going to have to color me cynical on this one. I don't see the advantage of this any more than I did of the network computer where all of your data was online and you just had a bunch of dumb terminals. Now your data is always with you but you use a bunch of dumb devices to see it. :roll: No thanks. It is a combination of local and remote resources that keeps prevailing, and local means you can do what you need being totally disconnected if necessary, not having to rely on remote resources. Am I missing something? And the wireless connection... is it bluetooth or not? If not, are they developing yet another "standard?"
"A new class of mobile device that utilizes advances in processing, storage, and communication technologies to provide ubiquitous access to personal information and applications through the existing fixed infrastructure."
It has no screen or other user interface. You instead utilize nearby screens, printers and internet connections via a "low-power short-range wireless" (note they didn't say bluetooth) connection.
Well, it sounds cool, but you are just going to have to color me cynical on this one. I don't see the advantage of this any more than I did of the network computer where all of your data was online and you just had a bunch of dumb terminals. Now your data is always with you but you use a bunch of dumb devices to see it. :roll: No thanks. It is a combination of local and remote resources that keeps prevailing, and local means you can do what you need being totally disconnected if necessary, not having to rely on remote resources. Am I missing something? And the wireless connection... is it bluetooth or not? If not, are they developing yet another "standard?"
