Andy Sjostrom
02-07-2002, 09:37 PM
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68107,00.html">http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68107,00.html</a><br /><br />Only IBM would put together an 800 Mhz, 128MB RAM, 10GB hard disk and a 3D graphics chip with 8MB of RAM, brush it off and say: "Nope! It's not for sale! It's just an experiment!"<br /><br />I have always admired IBM for their technical engineering and expertise. If only they could obtain just a bit more marketing and software IQ...!<br /><br />According to this article IBM says: "The Meta Pad project is part of our overall strategy in the pervasive space: building the technology inside computing devices and building and managing the infrastructure that will simplify the unthinkable task of connecting billions of devices to billions of things."<br /><br />Here's pervasive (the most frequently used word in IBM Powerpoint slides related to mobile technologies) for ya' all: "Users will be expected to customize the machine to fit their needs, the company said. The device can be transformed into a handheld, desktop, laptop, tablet or wearable computer "in seconds" without having to be rebooted".<br /><br /><img src="http://www.computerworld.com/computerworld/records/images/story/IBM_metapad2_secondary.jpg" /><br /><br />Source: Bob Overlock