mini-notebooks at PC Expo 2001
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These little Japanese notebooks were at the Transmeta booth showing off the type of designs that the Crusoe helps power. I like these diminuitive computers, but unfortunately, most are not currently available in the United States at reasonable cost. It's too bad; I wish they were more easily obtainable here. The photos are not great because the lighting wasn't and my camera gets along better with brighter light. These were all taken on Tuesday, June 26, 2001. More English information about these can be found at Dynamism.com, the [extremely overpriced] sole US importer.
The tiny discs at the bottom are DataPlay discs - about half the size of MiniDiscs yet with the data density, I'm told, of DVD's. Each ~1 inch-square disc holds up to 250MB on each side. They will cost between $5 and $12 each when they hit the market later this year (2001) as buzzword-compliant "digital media." I'm also told they are purely optical, rather than magneto-optical (MO) like MD's, so I'm not sure exactly how they work. The transfer rate of 1MB/sec makes it seem like these could be candidates for much lower-cost replacements for flash memory. |
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Photos are ©2001 David Danziger. If you want something, lousy as it may be, please ask.