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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
COHR 185.70+2.2%Dec 8 3:59 PM EST
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To: robert b furman who wrote (1228)5/13/2014 9:48:02 AM
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Indeed and would Qualcom rather see the business go to Korea?

My friend who works at Intel (not an engineer, but a test/support person) showed me his new touchscreen Lenovo notebook yesterday. Very thin and light with a square power plug hole. It has a place for a SIM card. It only opens flat so it doesn't flip over to be a tablet but he said he doesn't use the touch screen features of Windows 8.

My guess is they've used Moore's Law to lighten notebooks and extend battery life and not expand performance as much. You still have powerful desktop chips for workstation powerhouses.

He works from home most days and with the laptop and wifi he can check into Starbucks to have meetings with Skype or his cell phone. He doesn't have a desk any more at Santa Clara. They have many working from home with cubes set up with monitors so people can come in to work at the office when they need to meet with others in person. Now and then he takes the corp jet... I asked if it had Wifi, it does, but he says the trip to Folsom is so quick with the jet he gets a window seat and enjoys the view for the 20 minute ride.

Times have sure changed... Only a few of us design engineers got to travel so much at HP and I got one of the first HP Laptops in the building (as a gift) since I helped design the optical port that went in it. Before I got that, my fiber boss (now the R&D manager at Finisar) lent me his laptop to run my design spreadsheets when my new boss (IrDA wireless notebook, dongle, etc. products ) and met with IBM at a neutral location to discuss optical standards (all before wifi was cheap enough for laptops).... and I left his laptop in Chicago by accident when checking out! Man was I scared! Luckily the hotel kept it and shipped it back via FedEx... but was I ever worried! These days, all the data on laptops is backed up into the clouds so if lost or stolen, not as big a deal....

Funny how old memories flow back...
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