Bruce Kennedy Really mobile computing Experiences with a Series 3c Bruce Kennedy 17 Dec 2001

Bruce Kennedy 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

Bruce Kennedy 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)

Bruce Kennedy But it’s not a real computer, is it ? Very flexible Outlook-like Agenda application And a calculator, of course - is that it ?

Bruce Kennedy Real computers have spreadsheets and things What about a graph though ? Not to mention a Word-compatible word processor.

Bruce Kennedy 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

Bruce Kennedy 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.

Bruce Kennedy 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

Bruce Kennedy Making contact FTP client ! Terminal emulation, and WWW access are also possible And if you really can’t live without your PC… backups and file transfers in seconds.

Bruce Kennedy I’m a Power User. What about DOOM ? DOOM is a bit tricky. But there are plenty of games.

Bruce Kennedy Dear Father Christmas... Even better than the 3c 8-32MB memory Fast processor Better apps Java VM Colour screen Revo 5mx Series 7