March 17, 2005
The following article is written by an industry insider, anonymously referred to here as Steve Sanders.
Sometimes it's tough to separate fact from fiction from wishful thinking at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) but you have to try or you'd swear that tomorrow you're going to go out and buy an ultralite notebook with a battery life of days that you could use just everywhere. Intel unveiled their new dual and multicore processors that made yesteryear's Big Blue iron pale by comparison. It was pure coincidence that AMD also announced their technology the same week.
But the new notebooks have big screens to die for. They have wireless connectivity to your home, office, neighbor and beyond. You can put it into your car - think MTV's Pimp My Ride - or your rented spaceship. You have the power to multitask to your heart content at the office and then still go home and make movies, watch TV or go visually online to talk to friends around the globe.
The new processors are great but something is missing. Oh yes, an operating system and applications. Longhorn is "coming." Applications are "coming."vBarrett and his team probably spend more time pushing and encouraging partners to step up to the plate than they do to keeping pace with Gordon Moore's 40-year-old transistor law (doubling the number of transistors on the chip every 12-18 months). Today we've got web commerce, messaging, video, audio, wireless computing and implementation in every phase of life and commerce. While IDF sessions spent a lot of time talking about the enterprise, everyone's heart is set on mobile computing and the digital home.
Sometimes it's tough to separate fact from fiction from wishful thinking at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) but you have to try or you'd swear that tomorrow you're going to go out and buy an ultralite notebook with a battery life of days that you could use just everywhere. Intel unveiled their new dual and multicore processors that made yesteryear's Big Blue iron pale by comparison. It was pure coincidence that AMD also announced their technology the same week.
But the new notebooks have big screens to die for. They have wireless connectivity to your home, office, neighbor and beyond. You can put it into your car - think MTV's Pimp My Ride - or your rented spaceship. You have the power to multitask to your heart content at the office and then still go home and make movies, watch TV or go visually online to talk to friends around the globe.
The new processors are great but something is missing. Oh yes, an operating system and applications. Longhorn is "coming." Applications are "coming."vBarrett and his team probably spend more time pushing and encouraging partners to step up to the plate than they do to keeping pace with Gordon Moore's 40-year-old transistor law (doubling the number of transistors on the chip every 12-18 months). Today we've got web commerce, messaging, video, audio, wireless computing and implementation in every phase of life and commerce. While IDF sessions spent a lot of time talking about the enterprise, everyone's heart is set on mobile computing and the digital home.
