begin quoting Dexter Filmore as of Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:10:10PM +0200: > Am Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006 04:25 schrieb Bob La Quey: > > A PC inside a keyboard > > > > http://www.cybernetman.com/default.cfm?DocId=616 > > After all the Apple and Amiga jokes a serious note on that: > I'd really like to see such devices in mass production.
What I find amusing is that after all this time, and all the criticism aimed at the Amigas and Ataris and Acorns for this style design by the x86 PC market.... parts of the x86 PC market is starting to think it's a good idea. A pox on 'em. > After all it's boiling down to people not needing 5 PCI slots anymore because > anything to communicate with the outside is there already on the motherboard. > Sound, graphics, NIC, even FireWire. Sound is even aiming towards decency, at > least on some boards. On anything but a x86 PC, it's already there, and has been for years. Nice to see that IBM only held back the progress of useful technology for twenty years or so. > Gone are the days of SCSI controllers and other obnoxious interface cards, and Built-in SCSI wasn't obnoxious. What was obnoxious was the IBM PC's reluctance to provide a decent peripheral interface without adding a card. > if one really needs interface X he will almost for sure get a USB2.0 > converter. Something later generations will label as "obnoxious", no doubt. :) [snip] > After all I've been in much more situations where a decent mobile computer > would have suited me better than a laptop. I tended to use my laptop as a mobile computer. When possible, I try to set up a "station" with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard... -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
