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Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-heard-this-before dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Think of PC as standing for an innovative pocket computer not personal computer. This is a made-in-Finland computing rethink called Solu, now up on Kickstarter seeking funds.

It's a tiny box, made out of wood, that serves as a pocket computer which you can use independently but it can also be connected up to a screen at the office, becoming your full blown desktop computer. Softpedia's Marius Nestor said they are using a Linux kernel based operating system, the SoluOS.

North America technology reporter for the BBC, Dave Lee, reported on this attempt from Helsinki-based Solu Machines to reinvent the PC.

Computing power is packed into the small touchscreen device. "It can be hooked up to a bigger display at which point the handheld device is used as a controller. Various gestures - swiping, tapping, pinching - are used to control what happens on the bigger screen," said Lee.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @02:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @02:29AM (#254204)

    I don't know if you've noticed, but we have a flash storage revolution going on here, and your dinky little Chromecast clone can go check email and watch cat videos while I chug through hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes per second of data at tens-of-microseconds latencies.

    Also, I'm not paying $23 a month for this thing. I didn't even pay that much for Windows 7 if the cost was amortized over 5 years of monthly payments. Mac OS X comes free with hardware of better quality and ability. Linux is free and open source.

    This thing is the next Ouya. It will be laughed at and forgotten in two years' time. Also, whoever submitted this article should go look in a dictionary at the non-Silly-Valley definition of the word "disruptive", and finally realize that it's not a good thing, but an inconsiderate, asinine thing. There will still be people who want non-proprietary, high-power, modular computing systems alongside their locked-in, ultra-short-planned-obsolescence-life trinkets.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @09:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @09:28AM (#254292)

    "Mac OS X comes free with hardware"

    Hilarious, spoken like a true iTard. Protip: It's not free when you pay for it.