Lazycoder

OQO is finally shipping.

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

Oh the irony. Robert Scoble is promoting the OQO, which uses a Transmeta processor. Guess who Transmetas most famous employee is? Linus Torvalds.

So it took a Linux engineer, actually THE Linux engineer, to provide Microsoft “innovation”.

In other, less ironic, news. The OQO is shipping?! Between this and all the activity at Mt. St. Helens, I’m starting to think more about religion. Specifically the end of the world. I’m betting it’s too little (har har), too late. It’s a nice idea, but it’s too pricey. It’s biggest sin is that you can’t DO anymore with it than you can a decent PocketPC or Palm device. The specs on the OQO are very close to my own desktop system specs. Including the USB 1.1 and 802.11b wireless(!?, welcome to 1999 folks) I can tell you that you won’t be able to use the OQO as a desktop replacement. Not with 8MB of RAM on the video card running Windows XP. I don’t think that’s how it’s meant to be used though. It’s meant to be used as a moble computer, a more powerful PocketPC. A Smaller notebook.

I think the Transmeta chip is a great innovation, but the OQO is doomed to fail.