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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: September 06, 2003 Interview with Roy Want (Intel) -- "In looking at ways to improve mobile computing, we focused on three technologies, which in combination, offer a potential solution: high-density, small volume storage; low-power, high-performance processors, such as StrongARM and XScale; and standardized, high-bandwidth radios, such as Bluetooth. The personal server represents the integration of these three technologies. It's a small, mobile device that eventually will hold most of the data you use from day to day. It has none of the standard physical input/output capabilities — no keyboard, buttons or display. For this purpose, it relies on the computing infrastructure that happens to be in the locality and short-range wireless-connections to make use of these resources." (Comments: The Ghost)
Reader Comments...
Sell personal servers under $300 and stock new minitowers with two "personal server" slots. One for your storage, the other for copying onto other users' personal servers. It'll make zip drives and CD/DVD drives legacy media. I realize the device wireless, but people will want drive slots. Many users won't backup their personal servers onto their primary desktops. We'll hear horror stories about people losing years of data when they misplace their personal servers. Smart cookies will tie a clapper to their server. Clap your hands and your personal server lets out a "Here I am!" beep. Posted by: Jim Tule on September 6, 2003 09:18 PM
The Personal Server idea really appeals to me. I recently find my self feeling a bit of a luddite, as I don’t carry a PDA. They’re fun to poke at, but for me, they just don’t hold enough stuff to be useful (and I never had a problem calculating a tip in my head). I don’t want have to pick and choose what data I have at hand (If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one book…?). I think I would be first (or maybe second) in line for a wireless 100GB pocket server, with a long battery life (under $500). I don’t need any display -- just give me a headphone jack, a simple speech interface and two or three context aware buttons so that I can access audio documents while walking or driving.
You may want one of the Archos MP3 players for now. A 20GB hard drive that plays MP3s and has a mic for recording audio is pretty useful. Posted by: Toby Gillem on September 9, 2003 03:26 PM
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