Bruce Kennedy

Really mobile computing

Experiences with a Series 3c

Bruce Kennedy

17 Dec 2001

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How mobile is mobile ?

• Heavy (few kg)

• Short battery life (3-4 h)

• Start up ~ 2 minutes

• Light (<300g), pocket-sized

• Battery life >24h (on 2 AAs)

• Start-up instant

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What do you get for your money ?

• 20 GB hard disk

• 64MB memory

• 1GHz processor

• M$ windoze

• 1MB memory + removable memory cards

• Modest processor

• Efficient OS (SIBO)

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But it’s not a real computer, is it ?

Very flexible Outlook-like Agenda application

And a calculator, of course

- is that it ?

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Real computers have spreadsheets and things

What about a graph though ?

Not to mention a Word-compatible word processor.

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The other boys in Club Class have laptops

That’s all very well, but I’ve got a big project to manage...

I’m lost without my Gantt chart

… and my Pert chart

M$ Project-compatible, naturally

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Show me AutoCAD on that thing and I’ll be impressed

Well, not quite. But there is a vector drawing package...

Obligatory disclaimer: these are not my own work.

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I travel a lot

Where am I ?

Knows phone codes for most countries & districts

Keep track of accounts

Route planner

Can interface to Garmin GPS receivers

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Making contact

FTP client !

Terminal emulation, eMail and WWW access are also possible

And if you really can’t live without your PC…

backups and file transfers in seconds.

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I’m a Power User. What about DOOM ?

DOOM is a bit tricky. But there are plenty of games.

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Dear Father Christmas...

Even better than the 3c

8-32MB memory

Fast processor

Better apps

Java VM

Colour screen

Revo

5mx

Series 7