http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2005/11/new-toy/ Misc ramblings along the way... Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:01:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2005/11/new-toy/#comment-491 Deep Dark See » Blog Archive » OQO 01+ For Sale Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:07:22 +0000 http://deepdarksee.com/wordpress/?p=285#comment-491 [...] I’m selling my that OQO computer I was raving about a couple months ago. It works as advertised, and after much work I got Linux running on it in passable form, but it’s not going to meet my needs. The thumb keyboard is too slow for me, and the screen strains my eyes. I also found that the wifi stuff under Ubuntu Linux was painful to switch around when on the road. I was planning to use it as my ‘emergency computer’ when on-call for Bones in Motion operations, but I’ll be going back to carrying my laptop in the trunk of the car. [...] [...] I’m selling my that OQO computer I was raving about a couple months ago. It works as advertised, and after much work I got Linux running on it in passable form, but it’s not going to meet my needs. The thumb keyboard is too slow for me, and the screen strains my eyes. I also found that the wifi stuff under Ubuntu Linux was painful to switch around when on the road. I was planning to use it as my ‘emergency computer’ when on-call for Bones in Motion operations, but I’ll be going back to carrying my laptop in the trunk of the car. [...]

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