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Over the last few years Apple raised the bar for cool product design and, in our unhumble opinion, few companies manage to get anywhere close. But a product we've had in our hot, sweaty hands for a few days is a great example of outstanding engineering that approaches Apple's design quality but just misses.
The product is OQO's eponymous OQO Model 01+ - the company and computer with the unpronounceable name.
The OQO is undeniably cool. Despite being the size of a PDA (4.9 by 3.4 by 0.9 inches) and weighing 14 ounces (somewhat heftier than most PDAs), the OQO is a complete PC with a pen interface capable of running Windows XP Home, Professional or Tablet editions.
The OQO comes with a IGHzTransmeta Crusoe processor, 512MB of DDR RAM and a 3OGB shock-mounted hard drive with auto-parking when free fall (as in being dropped) is detected. (We doubt how well the OQO would stand even moderate abuse.)
A slick...