Adi Smith wrote: > UMPCs are horribly underpowered and clumsy to use. Usually I would > recommend holding off till second generation before investing in a new > technology but at this rate I wouldn't expect a usable UMPC till at > least 4 gen.
Agreed. A colleague paid a small fortune for a Sony ultra-min PC. Cute but my thumbs were sore after just 1 minute of typing on the tiny keyboard, and my presybopia (overlaid on myopia) meant that I had to remove my specs to see the screen, and even then I had to hold it right up to my face. > Investment in this technology now is not wise as there are several > power-saving features that will soon become mainstream resulting leaps > and bounds in battery life. OLED screens are a good example. > > On a related note Engadget has interesting articles on some recent > announcement of medical table PCs: > http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/27/hands-on-with-motion-computings-c5-me > dical-tablet-pc/ > http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/28/philips-introduces-wireless-medical-t > ablet-powered-by-intels-mc/ Personally I'm waiting for a OLPC device for $200 - see http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12578.html - the OLPC design is just fabulous and it even has a yellow key on the keyboard labelled "Show source" which shows you the Python source code for any widget or application you happen to be using (almost the whole thing, including most of the operating system, is written in Python). Oh, and if the battery runs down you can recharge it by pulling on a string which operates a built-in generator. One minute of vigorous pulling (or the string!) is good for ten minutes of computing. True! Once these OLPC devices are widely available for $200 each, expect a flood of health applications to appear for them, not the least because they are designed from the outset to be easy to programme for, using Python. And they have built-in mesh wi-fi networking... I could go on, but have a look at the web site: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/ But you will still need fairly dainty fingers... may the petite inherit the Earth! Tim C >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Les Bolitho >> Sent: Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:03 PM >> To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk'; 'Simon James' >> Subject: [GPCG_TALK] Ultramobile PCs >> >> Simon and All >> Can you comment on the new generation of Ultramobile PCs? - using M$ > XP or >> other OS - for use in hospital wards rounds for recording EMR, > prescribing >> and access to pathology and radiology images- battery life now > reportedly >> 6-8 hours, etc >> >> >> Regards >> Les Bolitho >> >> Dr Leslie E Bolitho >> Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine >> MBBS FRACP FACRRM >> >> 6 Dixon Street, Wangaratta .Vic.3677.Australia >> Phone 61 3 5721 5533 ; Fax 61 3 5722 1781 >> Mobile 0418 574 463 ; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Skype username: leslie.e.bolitho >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gpcg_talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may be > privileged > or otherwise protected from disclosure. > > If you are not the intended recipient of this email > please notify the sender immediately, delete the email and > any attachments from your system and do not print, distribute, > store, commercialise or act on any information it contains. > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
