The problem with OLPC is that out of the box it has been designed for a child. The Sugar interface is restrictive and breaks many of the well extablish UI standards. And do you really want to be powering your laptop by hand-crank.
Wait till a true innovator comes in to the Ultra-mobile market- iTablet anyone? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Tim Churches > Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 8:49 AM > To: General Practice Computing Group Talk > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Ultramobile PCs > > 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 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
