[conflagrare]

why does this thing resemble a Mac G5?

[conflagrare]

why does this thing resemble a Mac G5?

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Originally Posted by jlp

Furthermore if you look at the numerous soft touch buttons on the frame, that's another sure indication that this is a fullsize TPC, not a handheld/handtop device :!:

Look especially at the right side and count 'em: 10 rows of buttons!!

Then look at the tiny tray icons, they are half as tall as the smallest of these frame buttons.

Definitely not a small device :!:

Right. This does not appear to be as small as either the OQO or the Sony U VAIO devices, but it does appear to be smaller than current Tablet PCs. Hard to say for sure without actual specs or something else in the image to give us some perspective.

What I'm wondering is if this concept just might be a 1st step in an evolutionary chain. We've already seen vendors like OQO and Sony aim for a small handheld-like device with full-blown XP installed. This concept from Intel appears to be moving in that direction as well (though perhaps not completely there just yet).

[Perry Reed]

Personally, I've been saying for sometime now that I love this form factor. I want something a bit bigger than my Pocket PC, but not as big as current Tablet PCs or laptops; perhaps something between a 6 and 8 inch screen.

Such a device would certainly squeeze the Pocket PC market ever closer to the mobile phone market, where it's already been going. I think the Pocket PC platform, in a smaller package than most of the current PDAs (and certainly my old Jornada 568 which is HUGE in comparison to the new gadgets) would make for an excellent mobile phone platform. And I think the recent details of Magneto, with the new Pocket PC UI looking an awful lot like the Smartphone UI means Microsoft thinks so, too.

So give me a small Pocket PC as my phone and a mini-tablet to replace both my laptop and my PDA, and I'm a happy guy.

[Typhoon]

Is this really that thin? Or is that an optical illusion...