Saturday, October 4, 2003
The HPC is Back...Sort Of
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 05:00 PM
"Psion Teklogix has dropped the familiar EPOC operating system in favour of Windows CE.NET 4.2 for an updated version of our old mobile computing favourite, the Netbook, once also known as the Psion Series 7. The new release, the Netbook Pro, is at least a significant hardware upgrade. In place of the original 190MHz Intel StrongARM SA-1100 processor, there's a spanking new 400MHz Intel PXA255. The memory's been upped from 32MB to 128MB, too, though its internal expansion capability has been lost. The Netbook's 7.7in 640 x 480 passive matrix display has been replaced with an 800 x 600 TFT model. The sound has been updated from a 12-bit system to the AC'97 codec, backed at long last with microphone and speaker sockets."
The irony of the birthplace of Symbian switching over to a Windows CE .Net-based platform still gives me a good chuckle, but Psion is serious about making vertical-market HPCs it seems. Too bad they're so expensive - I can think of a lot of people who could benefit from a "laptop lite" such as this device.
The irony of the birthplace of Symbian switching over to a Windows CE .Net-based platform still gives me a good chuckle, but Psion is serious about making vertical-market HPCs it seems. Too bad they're so expensive - I can think of a lot of people who could benefit from a "laptop lite" such as this device.
