{"id":261,"date":"2003-06-10T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=261"},"modified":"2003-06-10T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T14:54:45","slug":"warning-hardware-geekery-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/06\/10\/warning-hardware-geekery-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning:  hardware geekery ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time is approaching when I&#8217;m going to be replacing <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dynamism.com\/mt1\/main.shtml\">Ryoh-ohki<\/a> with her <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dynamism.com\/mm1\/main.shtml\">smarter younger sister<\/a> (who will also be Ryoh-ohki). <img SRC=\"\/images\/MebiusMuramasaTablet.jpg\" ALT=\"Sharp Mebius Muramasa Tablet PC\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\"> When the first machine gets back from her impending service, she&#8217;s promised to a good home with a charming hotelier in Bern, a lady who will take good care of her and who&#8217;s as big a hardware geek, if not a bigger one, than I am.<\/p>\n<p>Yet at the same time, committed as I am to the MM-1 (also known as the Sharp Actius, now that they&#8217;ve started rolling it out in the US), there are other temptations.  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/babelfish.altavista.com\/babelfish\/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharp.co.jp%2Fcorporate%2Fnews%2F030605-2.html\">This would be one of them. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting increasingly intrigued by the tablet-PC concept, and the tablet version of the Mebius Muramasa TN-1 looks like a nice implementation of that.  I&#8217;m impressed with the quality of Sharp&#8217;s laptops by now, having worked extensively with both Ryoh-ohki and Peter&#8217;s machine, the heavier and more butch <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dynamism.com\/mv1\/index.shtml\">Ken-ohki<\/a>.  If as I think the TN-1 is more of the same, that alone would be an attraction.  I&#8217;d like to get my hands on one of these and play with it a little.  The hardware specs are good enough:  1.1 gHz Intel Speedstep processor, 256-768 meg RAM, 30 gig hard drive, regular LAN and wireless LAN, all the usual ports for a machine of this kind, and (interestingly) a fingerprint lock.  The only downside, for me, is the weight.  1.9 kg&#8230;mutter.  That&#8217;s almost twice what I&#8217;m used to carrying these days:  more even than Ken-ohki weighs with his CD-R\/W drive in.  And the size (a little bigger than Ken-ohki) makes it more difficult to do what I like to do with Ryoh-ohki&#8230;keep her in my shoulderbag. Especially on the road, where I have no desire to reveal what I&#8217;m carrying by exhibiting something too obviously a computer bag&#8230;and also don&#8217;t feel like having to schlep around something that weighs as much as some boat anchors.<\/p>\n<p>And every time I start thinking about all that extra weight, I go back to the Dynamism site and look at <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dynamism.com\/u101\/index.shtml\">this<\/a> again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"\/images\/U101.jpg\" ALT=\"Sony U101\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\">&#8220;It&#8217;s too small for you,&#8221;  Jason (my sales-and-sometimes-support guy at Dynamism) keeps telling me.  Well, maybe.  But my hands aren&#8217;t exactly huge, and I wrote several novels on Allegra, my Acer TravelMate, without too much trouble.  Her keyboard&#8217;s only slightly bigger than the U101&#8217;s.  (She is presently in honorable retirement as the machine we give to houseguests.  &#8230;And yes, all my machines have names and genders, and it&#8217;s not just a network issue.  I find they work better that way.  Don&#8217;t anybody bring up the Pathetic Fallacy.  [If I suffer from a fallacy, it&#8217;s more likely to be the empathetic one:  or as Brandoch Daha would put it,  &#8220;Ever she perversely affecteth the losing side in a quarrel.&#8221;])  &#8230;And this machine plays exactly into a prediction I made to Peter years ago:  that one day there would be a PC no bigger than a Filofax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It&#8217;s gonna be a while before I have to make up my mind about this issue.  Big and unusual, or small and neat?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time is approaching when I&#8217;m going to be replacing Ryoh-ohki with her smarter younger sister (who will also be Ryoh-ohki). 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