OQO is an American starting UP enterprise. At the same time the term OQO is used also for the only product of this company, the OQO model 01 and its successor, the OQO model 01+.

Company

Jory Bell and Jonathan bed LaCroix created the company OQO, together with four other sizes of the computer engineering in the year 2000 to revolutionize with the goal, the computer industry by the smallest "adequate" computer.

OQO model 01

It concerns for introduction on the market October 2004 the smallest PC of the world. With 12,4 x 8.6 x 2.3 cm and 400g weight he reminds outwardly of a PDA and fits into a palm. Technically seen it is however an adequate PC with the following specifications:

• 1 Ghz Transmeta Crusoe CCU
• 256 MT RAM
• 20 GB non removable disk
• 800 x of 480 pixels color display
• Touchscreen, keyboard with number block, TRACK-tick and Scrollrad
• USB 1,1, FireWire, microphone
• Delivered with Microsoft Windows XP
• Bluetooth and 802.11b Wireless LAN
• Exchangeable Akku with approx. 2 hours of running time
• By Dockingkabel also connections for VGA, LAN, and Replikatoren of the remaining connections

OQO model 01+

In September 2005 OQO was introduced model 01+, the successor of the OQO model to 01. The new model has to register some improvements with same extents and same weight. In addition belong:

• 512 MT RAM
• 30 GB non removable disk
• USB 2.0
• Integrated loudspeaker
• Improved pin operation of the adjustable screen
• Since 2006 also with Windows XP Tablet PC edition available

Restrictions and disadvantages

Like that the small technology to be also impressing likes, then the opinions were still mixed to the product at the beginning. This lay on the one hand in a set of small and smallest lack, which won by their number of meaning, but were repaired to a large extent with model the 01+. On the other hand it is this very day because of it that the users do not know yet so quite, what it thereby to begin has. Angedacht was that the OQO computer unites the following in itself:

• Mobil like a laptop
• Handily like a PDA
• Efficiently like a Desktop

Thus one should need only this a PC, whereby one could save synchronizing several systems. If the OQO would have come like planned in the autumn 2002 on the market, this could have folded. Two years later it was for many users indiskutabel to exchange their fast Desktop against a computer with only 1 Ghz clock.

A selection of special accessories for the two OQO models is available.

Due to the too early announced market feature and the OQO up to the publication applied for often shifted dates as vapor commodity (announcement of product, which is probably never fulfilled). It was selected at place 4 of the vapor commodity "hit list" 2002 of the US magazine Wired.

Related links

• Official web page (English)
• OQO: PDA large Windows XP PC is revalued (Golem.de, with pictures)

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