It was a Wednesday morning when I was with my dad at the office. Dad had ordered a brand new Desktop PC with a
Pentium-ii processor. The time when
Pentium was thought to be the most important part in a computer.
At a
blastin 233
MHz it was supposed to do all the work thrown at it in a jiffy. But the cabinet was big. I liked the big box
though as it reminded me of a
starwars movie.
32
MB of ram and 2gig of
hard drive were also supposed to be part of a good configuration. The whole setup cost us something around 80,000 Rs.
The computer is now at home doing the duty at best for surfing the net, listening to music and some office work. The specification of the RAM, and
hard drive have changed though.
Now why have I suddenly recalled this computer? The culprit is my new
PDA. A
Motorola E680i. I am just wondering how a 100times smaller
PDA is faster than a desktop
computer. An
Intel xscale processor doing the duty at 300
MHz is faster than the
Intel Pentium-ii 233
MHzThe memory available is again 2
GB which is similar to the
hard drive.
32
MB of RAM and 50
MB of
rom in such a small device is really a wonder. The
pda performs anything from Mp3,radio,camera,video,movies,
PDA, MS office,
Internet,phone etc just like our old computer.
The price? 4times less the price for a 100times smaller device.
what next? A
pda that beats a supercomputer?