I sell these for work only much better. a Dell Axim x51v for 499 with much better specs for 499

allanonkid wrote:I sell these for work only much better. a Dell Axim x51v for 499 with much better specs for 499

x51v - 624mhz
OQO - 1ghz

x51v - 640x480
OQO - 800x480 on the built in screen and 1280x1024 VGA output

x51v - no hard drive
OQO - 30gb

x51v - 64 RAM + 256 flash ROM
OQO - 512 RAM

x51v - 3.7" screen
OQO - 5" screen

The OQO also has an ethernet port which the x51v does not.

So yeah, sure sounds like better specs there on that x51v. Personally if I had the money and had caught today's Woot I definitely would have picked one up. I can think of quite a lot of uses. Oh well, maybe it'll be up sometime again after tax return time!

I missed today's woot and I really gotta have one of these. Anyone knows where I can get one at the same or near woot price ?

tq2irqwk wrote:

Transmeta Crusoe is an x86 CPU, sort of (for a variety of technical reasons it's exactly the opposite of an x86 CPU, but it runs with perfect 100% compatability all x86 applications natively with 0 compatability issues)

I'm very impressed with what I have read about the Crusoe chip. My friend has one of these and its awsome. I bought 3 and will give the other 2 as gifts next christmas.

alhinai wrote:I missed today's woot and I really gotta have one of these. Anyone knows where I can get one at the same or near woot price ?

Ebay....you can make some of the wooters, those who bought 3, happy.

horrorfreakshow wrote:

I'm very impressed with what I have read about the Crusoe chip. My friend has one of these and its awsome. I bought 3 and will give the other 2 as gifts next christmas.

next christmas????

jsaya wrote:MAYBE for about half the price...
"Graphics: 3D accelerated with 8mb video RAM" sucks too...
I'll stick w/ my $10 PSP from Stootsi's Box of Fun!

i dont mean to get off topic but....

YOU GOT A PSP IN YOUR BOX O' FUN!?!??? lucky!!!!!!!!

tq2irqwk wrote:Sony makes the exact same thing, except with a Core 2 Solo processor, Bluetooth and UTMS/3G for Cingular as well for about $2k. That's a bit more useful...but I can see something tiny like this might be handy also in some situatons.

but not suitable for your suit pockets

I gotta say, in theory these things are cool as hell... but i don't know what i would do with it! it's $800 for a machine that doesnt have a keyboard or mouse, has very short battery life, but is otherwise a full computer... that alone would drive me nuts, because the majority of what i do on PC's is typing, playing video games or watching videos... all of which would be hard to do and/or suck up the power.

ah well, maybe another life

also, did anyone else think this would go well with that battery pack sold during the wootoff?

Aw I'm weeping with joy!, I wanted one to WoW on the road with

u235meltdown wrote:Aw I'm weeping with joy!, I wanted one to WoW on the road with

I cant even imagine playing WoW on a 5 inch screen, that would be hard as hell in instances.

KK2K3 wrote:

I cant even imagine playing WoW on a 5 inch screen, that would be hard as hell in instances.

combine it with one of those huge projectors... now that's an oddcouple!

The unit LOOKS pretty nice, however I've been very interested in UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs) for a while now, I've even got my own ^_^ I'm using a Sony UX 180p ( Sonystyle.com link )

Though the UX is powerful for its size (1.2GHZ CPU, 1GB of RAM) it leaves me begging for better performance.

My first thoughts when looking at this item, is "who's ever heard of OQO?" I certainly haven't and I'm a gadget geek when it comes to this stuff. The fact that I haven't even heard of the thing make me untrustworthy. Also, I see hardly any heat venting, looks like heating could cause bad problems with this device, but I can't say for sure because I don't own one : )

its pretty cool, but I dont need it. I already am building a laptop and with PDA's being what they are this is just too expensive to buy. Still, its pretty cool.

I am sure I am ignorant but it would just seem that this thing doesn't do much more than the ARCHOS PMA last week for $299. It is not Windows XP, but it still gives wifi connectivity.

I have a tc1100 10" tablet and it runs circles around the OQO. 10" is the smallest you should go in screen size if you want to surf the net and not go blind. HP had a good thing and I wish they kept to a smaller screen.

This is just a setup to get aeveryone to jump on the PDA which they are probably offering next.

dansilvers wrote:....but does it run Linux?

When you turn it on? It is running Windows XP (Tablet edition)

CAN it run Linux?

Heh... what can't run Linux? Even my toaster can run Linux.

lionshi wrote:

next christmas????

Yes I get my shopping done early so I dont have to fight crowds later. This was a very good woot.

Meh, I'm satisfied with my PalmOne LifeDrive...smaller screen but still nice.

wileecoyote wrote:
If you wanted to be dishonest and steal for a living, the smart thing to do would be:

Buy one brand new at a local store and make a photocopy of the legitimate receipt. Now return the unit you just purchased but keep the original receipt or at least a photocopy of the receipt. Then buy a second unit from a cheaper source like woot being careful to ensure they are the same exact model / packaging / barcode. Finally return the second unit at a local store along with your authentic receipt, preferably at a different outlet that won't recognize you.

Of course this amounts to retail theft by deception and carries similar penalties to shoplifting or writing bad checks. I know because I have prosecuted several cases for this, one of which was severe enough that the secret service was involved due to other factors. Also, be advised that some store systems may be smart enough to flag the item as returned on the first trip, then when the same receipt is used to make the second return their system will reject or decline the refund, or possibly prompt them to give you a gift card, or just have you arrested...

you are right best buy has a good system intact where i live. everything you buy at bestbuy, is loged by serial numbers. if the recipt does not match the serial number, 1. they will refuse it, and 2. they call the police and put your name in the computer. if you try to retun something that has a good serial number, but it
showes that it has not been sold off to jail you go for haveing stolen property on you. it pays just to pay up for the item you want. that is why sales go up.

horrorfreakshow wrote:

Yes I get my shopping done early so I dont have to fight crowds later. This was a very good woot.

But by next Christmas you'd be able to get a next generation one for the same price! ...or maybe not, you never know

All I can say is that this item is terribly expensive... not worth the money!. I have a Cingular 8125 (Wireless phone + PDA running Windows 5 Mobile Ed.) (~$400) that pretty much delivers the same and of course MORE since you can use it as a cell phone. There is nothing that I can't run that I would need 'on the fly', Outlook, Microsoft Office (word, Pwpoint, Excel), even PCAnywhere to remote from the device to my PC at work or Home if I need it. Conclusion? NOT WORTH THE 800... BADDD WOOT

shockthemonkey wrote:I gotta say, in theory these things are cool as hell... but i don't know what i would do with it! it's $800 for a machine that doesnt have a keyboard or mouse, has very short battery life, but is otherwise a full computer... that alone would drive me nuts, because the majority of what i do on PC's is typing, playing video games or watching videos... all of which would be hard to do and/or suck up the power.

ah well, maybe another life

also, did anyone else think this would go well with that battery pack sold during the wootoff?

Well, first of all, these things DO have both a keyboard (which slides down out of the unit) and a pointing device (called "TrackStik" which is likely the same as an IBM TrackPoint.) It even has mouse buttons and a thumbwheel. All of this information was listed in the specifications, right on the main page. It pays to open your eyes and actually read sometimes! Click on the image on the front page to see the expanded view, which shows the keyboard; the mouse buttons are on the left side and the TrackStik is that black dot off to the right.

Also, I don't know what this device is rated for power input, so I couldn't tell you if it'd work with those ZAP portable chargers.

AWooter wrote:I am sure I am ignorant but it would just seem that this thing doesn't do much more than the ARCHOS PMA last week for $299. It is not Windows XP, but it still gives wifi connectivity.

Nope, you're not ignorant at all; in fact, I made the same observation and posted a comparison between the PMA430 and the OQO a couple of pages back! I was actually surprised that nobody else had written anything about it.

TheMonk wrote:I want to put bluetooth gps on my samsung I730 but live in Salt lake city UT. look at a map youll know why i dont need one

I checked out Salt Lake City on Google Maps and I'm not sure what you mean. Many of the roads are perpendicular, and the E-W ones are typically named "4th Street," "5th Street," etc., but the city is huge and there are many, many more roads. Why exactly don't you need GPS navigation there?

I cannot believe they sold $200,000.00 worth of these! Amazing!

Agent1

I recently bought one of these for my wife from the OQO website for Christmas. I paid $1500+. Luckily i was able to snatch one up here and still have time to return the first. Even with the restocking fee I have to pay OQO, I am still saving a bundle. Thanks Woot! Now where the heck is it?

gustador wrote:I have a tc1100 10" tablet and it runs circles around the OQO. 10" is the smallest you should go in screen size if you want to surf the net and not go blind. HP had a good thing and I wish they kept to a smaller screen.

10" huh? Try sneaking that into the movie theater in your pocket.

OQO Model 02 arrives
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/oqo-model-02-arrives/

Model 02 promo for owners of a Model 01+

http://www.handtops.com/forum/2824/0//Model_0101_owner_upgrade_promo.html#

"OQO is offering qualified model 01/01+ owners a free dual-layer DVD drive docking station with the purchase of a model 02"

anyone get theirs shipped yet?

nathan2 wrote:anyone get theirs shipped yet?

Not me, still waiting.

is this timeline typical for woot?

groovinsanctuary wrote:is this timeline typical for woot?

Very. There have been a couple shorter times I've seen prior to shipment, but even their blog sez to wait 3 business days to see when it ships. As I recall, somewhere else it sez 5 days. In any case, you'll often get an email with the shipping/tracking data well before the info changes in "My Account".

Should be in the next day or two, but I know how you feel - that anticipation - Get it here!

They have many, many things to ship, though, and yours (and mine) are but grains of sand on their beach.

Good luck!

Warthogs wrote:

Should be in the next day or two, but I know how you feel - that anticipation - Get it here!

got the email this am - shipped on the fifth, bee here thursday...

FYI

gregclimbs wrote:

got the email this am - shipped on the fifth, bee here thursday...

FYI

Also got the email today - shipped on the 5th (!) and out for delivery TODAY (in San Diego). Of course I'm not there to accept it and this is DIRECT SIGNATURE REQUIRED, which means ya gotta be there to get it. Rats.

For everyone else - be aware this requires yer John Hancock for delivery...

yes stupid woot, i was not home it shipped today to my house. i probably wont get till friday, i got to go pick it up. Signature required. im in Los Angeles

Warthogs wrote:
Also got the email today - shipped on the 5th (!) and out for delivery TODAY (in San Diego). Of course I'm not there to accept it and this is DIRECT SIGNATURE REQUIRED, which means ya gotta be there to get it. Rats.

For everyone else - be aware this requires yer John Hancock for delivery...

mine came today first thing a day early according to fedex...

thing is great, runs the apps I was planning to use (always a big ? for data loggers)...

happy as a clam - teathered to my blackberry and I have WAN too!

-also of note- I can't see that woot charged me yet... weird.

g

gregclimbs wrote:

mine came today first thing a day early according to fedex...

g

You're lucky! I haven't even gotten an email confirmation that it's shipped yet. Most expensive thing I've ever purchased from Woot and taking longer than anything else I bought. I'm getting a little annoyed especially when some have already received theirs.

Maybe I should cancel the order.