What I Wish My Dorm Room Had
May 13th, 2005 by feeling entropy
Macrocomm has what looks like the biggest and best fax machine ever. This is not just a fax machine, scratch that, it’s not a fax machine. This prototype model will be released in Europe come this July 2005. I was lucky enough to sit next to Dave, the Managing Director, for lunch and inquired what it was he had to bring to the Connections Conference. Before I knew it, during a 30 min break and he pulled a box from his hotel room and met us a the terrace. His prototype do-it-all machine wasn’t at a booth for this conference, yet I managed to grab an exclusive look at this baby.
Touch screen, VoIP, IPTV, HDTV, dual boot Linux and Windows, DVD player, 5.1 Dolby Sound, USB 2.0, and starting at $850.00. This device is destined to end up in hotels, hospitals, conference rooms, dormitories, airports, and consumer homes. Combine it all and here you have it: the all-in-one for the budget consumer. Still, I say it looks a bit like a big screen fax machine.
May 13th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Metrocomm’s Prototype is Not a Fax Machine
So look at the feature list for this prototype device from Macrocomm: Touch screen, VoIP, HDTV, dual-booting Linux and Windows, 5.1 sound, and… a corded phone handset. They’re building the device to go into hotels and hospitals and dorms—anypl…
May 13th, 2005 at 8:42 am
save some money. buy one of these complete systems with 15″ lcd and toss vonage softphone on it or get a nice laptop for $599 http://www.cybernetman.com/
May 13th, 2005 at 11:57 am
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May 16th, 2005 at 12:05 am
I’m just wondering if the keyboard is comfortable at that angle.
May 16th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
I also wondered that and tested it out by ghost typing (since it was powered off) for about 20 seconds. it was not as bad as you’d think. I wonder how it is over a long period of time?