[geeks] RE: In the kitchen, Barefoot and *wireless*...

[Ken Hansen]

Hee-Hee!

Laptops that compare to network appliances are very inexpensive (three years old).

An older PII/266 Tecra 8000 can be gotten for around $500 +/-, and can be carried around the house as needed/desired. A Gateway appliance has a crappy screen (DSTN, not TFT), a non-x86 CPU, and a custom OS for the same $500.

I-Openers can be gotten for about $150, but after you rub another $50 for more memory, crack the case and upgrade the CPU for another $50 or $100, you are still stuck with a crappy DSTN screen and it needs to be tethered to your network/power.

The laptop can be wireless and run off batteries for ultimate flexibility.

You can try out the concept with an old P/133 laptop for about $100 - $150...

Ken



-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:19 AM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] Rare Finds (was Re: [rescue] 670MP windfall in the
su rplus diving frenzy today.....)


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Wireless laptop will be much better in the kitchen... The current flat-panel
> "net appliances" are very limited CPU/memory-wise, IMHO...
> 
> Oh, a wireless laptop with a printer in/near the kitchen (a printout can get
> stained and no one cares, stain a computer and someone will be
> annoyed)...

A notebook is more expensive (and more delicate?).  

> But really, for crissake already, just get the Xeon sepository and end it, 
> why don't you... ;^)

Yeah, but then how would friends/family use it?  Would you rather have the
dot in your dot com instead of "Intel Inside" (shudder at the new meaning
that phrase just took on)?

--
Joshua Boyd

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