On 4-27-2003 solo posted: How about Flash memory…
Instead of hard drives? This would be a boon, especially for laptops, because of the significant weight savings; not to mention the speed over a mechanical device. It seems that the price of flash memory is artificially high right now, but the technology seems to be just about ready for hard drive capacities.

Anyway… That’s my prediction (say; within 5 years, or so) and I’m sticking to it

solo Called It

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What is the $100 Laptop, really?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. These rugged laptops will be WiFi- and cell phone-enabled, and have USB ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel.

I predict third world wi-fi hackers…

$100 Laptop

Microsoft Corp. said Friday that the next version of its Windows operating system will have built-in support for Internet data feeds, an increasingly popular way to get news and other information channeled straight to a computer.

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, hasn’t broken into widespread use yet, but the world’s largest software maker believes it will become a mainstay.

“We really believe that RSS is key to how people will be using the Internet in the future,” said Megan Kidd, a Windows product manager.

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-Microsoft is really on the ball with this one. I mean right out in front of the curve. I heard the makers of Firefox were said to have responded with a “yawn”.

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“apple with have to do something to keep them ahead of the game, in processing power. so i don’t believe that they will just drop down to an x86 chip from a risc chip. if they did it would just be another notebook that’s prettier than the rest.”
-emetib

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