THE OSBORNE 1
Introduced: April 1981
Price: US $1,795
Weight: 24.5 pounds
CPU: Zilog Z80 @ 4.0 MHz
RAM: 64K RAM
Display: built-in 5" monitor
53 X 24 text
Ports: parallel / IEEE-488 modem / serial port
Storage: dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives
OS: CP/M
Posted on 09/28/2011 1:24:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I like it. But unless I can get a 3g/4g version or I am able to use my USB 4g card, I can’t use it.
“Fully half of tablet users are streaming video. We’re also traveling with them like crazy”
Hence he misses the key point of the iPad: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME.
a HUGE mistake for leaving off the camera
... and a keyboard, and a DVD drive with Lightscribe.
—Any idea if these devices have USB and HDMI ports?—
USB is so standard now that if they didn’t have it, they would not be of any value whatsoever. HDMI less so. But it would be a nice feature and add significant value.
I’ll read Walt Mossberg’s review before deciding.
Question: do these things require contracts (along with monthly fees) with wireless providers?
LOAD,8,1
Still have one of those, a Commodore 64, Amiga 1000, IBM 8088, and a host of other useless, but can’t throw away relics.
for a 7” tablet / pad, the goal price should be $50.
it is all a matter of mass production.
remember the early calculators?
remember the early digital watches?
we need a texas instraments determination to shrink the price.
My Android phone (HTC Evo 4G) has an HDMI port, and it is indeed nice to hook up to the big TV. I can play stuff from TV.com on there, which is quite nice.
The BOM on the calculator supported the price structure you are talking about.
However, the cost of LCD display, touch-screen front, the multi-core chipsets involved, 1 Gig of RAM, SDRAM, as well as the wi-fi/Bluetooth/GPS/solid state gyro-scopes and accelerometers are well beyond that price point. As-is, Amazon is predicted to be selling each kFire at a $50 loss.
Apple could conceively drop them $200 and still make a $100 profit on the iPads; but why would they? They are selling far, far more than any ‘expert’ predicted.
Remember just over a year ago they were predicted to be a total and complete flop? I think that Amazon needs to re-think their strategy, because it’s never a good idea to buy marketshare. Ask HP/Dell how buying marketshare has worked for them.
It should be free if they gear it toward all paid content (or advertising subsidised content).
USB 2.0 port, no HDMI listed on the spec page.
LMAO....I was the fool that bought one of thse Osbornes. That along with the first gen cell phone that I had.....but you know....sometime ya just gotta have it :)
Was a real computer!
The goal, yes, but the reality is such that today an iPad, for example, costs Apple almost $300 to manufacture, so what are you going to do? (There have been pretty detailed breakdowns of the costs published in the press.)
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