DualCor
I suffer from gadget envy. What holds me back from buying everything under the sun? Space, by and large – I don't have enough of it. I usuually don't buy one gizmo without knowing I'm fully replacing another (and not just making a lateral sidegrade). This is why CES is so difficult for me to digest. I see that my current suite of sweet tools aren't as hot as they once were. Who knew dot matrix printers were already out of date?! I hear the Bluth Company still uses 'em.
Like any red-blooded geek would do, I watched the Web in the weeks following the wave of CES launches and announcements. One product that stood out from the rest was a new business-class device called the DualCor. Actually, the DualCor is perfect for power users, too – but the enterprise is where most money is made. This is not the OQO, and it's certainly not one of those new LifeStyle PCs we'll be hearing more about soon. Any hardware aficionado will come to that conclusion quickly after running down the list of DualCor's features.
Before Greg Hughes announced that he was invited to a very private BETA (Board of Expert Technical Advisors), I was connected with DualCor's CEO, Steve Hanley – through Greg Hughes, as luck would have it. After a lengthy conversation, I enthusiastically accepted the invitation to join the BETA – finding no easier way of getting QA feedback into the hands of decision makers and developers. I've grown frustrated with the choices presented to me; OEMs cut corners and make sloppy design decisions that cost users more than money. In sitting on the DualCor tech advisory board, I'll have a true chance to influence a product that's already making people jealous.
I guess this will be my first Tablet PC (as well as the first Tablet PC / Windows Mobile hybrid ever produced). I've been dying to try the Tablet PC Ink Explorer.
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4 Comments
James Kendrick
February 13th, 2006
at 11:06am
Welcome to the DualCor BETA!
Andru Edwards
February 13th, 2006
at 2:50pm
If anyone wants to see this thing in action, we just put up a video interview over the weekend with Steve Hanley, where he walks us through a DualCor demo:
Bleeding Edge: Episode 1
Greg
February 13th, 2006
at 10:43pm
jccalhoun
February 17th, 2006
at 4:23pm
IF someone would make one of those old clamshell style handheld pc's with a 3/4 size keyboard, wifi, and a decent sized hardrive, I would snap it up in a minute. Something like the NEC 900 with the current windows mobile os on it would be a killer app for college students. The ability to have an instant on device you could easilly type on to take notes in class and be online with (hell, throw in mp3 player and video too) and it would be a nice alternative to lugging around a heavy laptop that takes forever to boot up and shut down.