Personal Server, A New Concept in Mobile Computing

[Ed Hardy]

An Intel research team is working on a a device that will allow people to carry their data with them everywhere and use it on any computer they come to. Will it replace handhelds and laptops?

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/Pe...Mobile_Concept

[cecina]

Found this on the internet.....

Intel Personal Server
http://www.intel.com/research/spotli...n_one_want.htm
http://www.speakeasy.org/~roywant/pa...al%20Server%20(short%20paper).PDF
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/events/dag...y-personal.pdf

IBM Unveils the Ultimate Personal Server
Device features 10GB of storage, Windows XP and Bluetooth support, but may never make it to market.
http://pcworld.shopping.yahoo.com/ya...,109412,00.asp

[Loki Gelfling]

Sony beat them to the punch back in Feb. -> http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/104/C1457/

[Scott R]

This thing looks a little like a pager.

Scott

[cecina]

Originally posted by Loki Gelfling
Sony beat them to the punch back in Feb. -> http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/104/C1457/

17 April, 2002 -- Toshiba Develops Bluetooth Pocket Server
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/nea/200207/cmpu_194838.html
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2002_04/pr1701.htm
http://www.kewney.com/articles/020323-tosh.html

[ipaqgeek]

Originally posted by Scott R
This thing looks a little like a pager.

Scott

he he he

You're funny, Scott

[andrewlwood]

it's a nice idea. but what do I do on a train?
or a aeroplane? Or in a taxi? In the long term, everything could be fitted with dumb terminals, but the investment is going to have to be MASSIVE before it's really useful. It's not going to replace pda's any time soon. But there might be an internal corporate use for it in the shorter term. I think we should be careful as always to manage expectations - this is another gadget to carry, not a replacement - and what can it do that my ppc with a huge memory card can't? Spend the resource developing a 40gb SD card

What's the real difference between this thing and those usb storage keyrings that are appearing, apart from the wireless?

I remember my dad's original corporate network - a mainframe with everything on it including apps, which dumb terminals just hooked into. Can an industry person tell me what's the real advantage of server-side apps, now that client-side storage and processors are so cheap?