- Oct 30, 1999
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So I'm at this Intel thing where we all get to talk about and tear apart laptops.
One guy was arguing that Intel should create a laptop standard AND ENFORCE IT so we can make clone laptops.
This other guy said that that has been tried and it failed.
It has?
I remember when Asus came into the scene BIG TIME with the modular laptop idea that was proprietary to Asus, but still modular, but they don't really do that anymore.
It escalated into an argument and the guy who said that the idea didn't work/won't work "how long have you been in this industry?"
Now, I don't see what this has to do with anything. In this day and age, we CAN make components so small that we can either create a standard modulation that all manufactuers should follow or make a fully integrated laptop motherboard that is so inexpensive that it is essentially disposable because it's so cheap (save the monitor, CPU, HDD and CD/FDD of course). I had no clue where this guy was coming from. You can be in this industry either a long time or only a few months and it still sounds like a good idea.
The other guy responded that he had been in the industry....
....28 years?!?!?!
Think about that. 28 years.
I've been in it for 16 years. We didn't have laptops 16 years ago. We had this POS that Osborne made that was Z80 powered and weighed in at 40 pounds. They called it "portable" but hardly a laptop.
I'm thinking the closest thing to a laptop was 1989. Right? 11 years? If he said 11 years, I wouldn't be writing this rant.
Hell. If we weren't talking about laptops and just PCs in general, I'd think the guy was full of sh!t if he said 28 years!
This guy had to be lying. 28 years ago is 1972. Intel invented the Microprocessor in 1971. There were no "buyable" PCs in 1972 (Scelbi was in 1974 and Altair was 1975). If he WAS in the industry in 1972, why is he only in a position where today he would be sitting in on an Intel seminar with a bunch of 30-40 year old techs eating ham sandwiches.
Liar, right?
One guy was arguing that Intel should create a laptop standard AND ENFORCE IT so we can make clone laptops.
This other guy said that that has been tried and it failed.
It has?
I remember when Asus came into the scene BIG TIME with the modular laptop idea that was proprietary to Asus, but still modular, but they don't really do that anymore.
It escalated into an argument and the guy who said that the idea didn't work/won't work "how long have you been in this industry?"
Now, I don't see what this has to do with anything. In this day and age, we CAN make components so small that we can either create a standard modulation that all manufactuers should follow or make a fully integrated laptop motherboard that is so inexpensive that it is essentially disposable because it's so cheap (save the monitor, CPU, HDD and CD/FDD of course). I had no clue where this guy was coming from. You can be in this industry either a long time or only a few months and it still sounds like a good idea.
The other guy responded that he had been in the industry....
....28 years?!?!?!
Think about that. 28 years.
I've been in it for 16 years. We didn't have laptops 16 years ago. We had this POS that Osborne made that was Z80 powered and weighed in at 40 pounds. They called it "portable" but hardly a laptop.
I'm thinking the closest thing to a laptop was 1989. Right? 11 years? If he said 11 years, I wouldn't be writing this rant.
Hell. If we weren't talking about laptops and just PCs in general, I'd think the guy was full of sh!t if he said 28 years!
This guy had to be lying. 28 years ago is 1972. Intel invented the Microprocessor in 1971. There were no "buyable" PCs in 1972 (Scelbi was in 1974 and Altair was 1975). If he WAS in the industry in 1972, why is he only in a position where today he would be sitting in on an Intel seminar with a bunch of 30-40 year old techs eating ham sandwiches.
Liar, right?
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