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Technology Stocks : XYBR - Xybernaut -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wolff who wrote (3872)	4/5/2000 9:13:00 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6847

I've used it, returned it, a toy - worthless as a computer. Next---

To: Wolff who wrote (3872)	4/5/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6847

Hello Wolff, I appreciate the response ... > Mr. Lemon please do some work on your own, this ultra > basic questions raised are getting tiresome, I don't want > to be rude, but I don't want to engage in further > questions that are the most basic. I'm really glad that you bring up this subject. I actually do a lot of my own work ... specifically I am currently in some very interesting research into wearable computers and market trends in this space. I am tracking a large number of the various components that go into making these devices reality, and I am both building and buying the available products to evaluate them for various advanced applications - for both in the workplace, and personal use. I have two different prototypes that I have built from scratch ... and I am working through the research on commercialization. Additionally, I am working with another engineer on a paper that we are looking to present at the next International Symposium on Wearable Computers. This paper is looking at the Automated Management and Configuration of a Wearable Workforce. You see ... right now we are talking about one of my favorite research areas ... and I work very hard to gain as much expertise in this field as possible. ;-) > You raise with doubt if some of those are palmtop PC, not > PDAs but PCs....here is one of them in detail. Actually, having gained a fair bit of expertise in this area, along with experience from several high-tech start-ups and much time in high-tech corporations, my primary doubt has to do with your knowledge and research in this area - and your intentions with the information which you like to offer. I would have assumed (obviously a bad thing to do) that you were aware that you provided some very misleading information ... attempting to compare completely dissimilar computing platforms to the Xybernaut products. I was hoping that you might provide some real comparitive/competitive analysis that explained where the PDAs fall short in functionality, and the handheld PCs are limited in durability and UI ... but you decided not to. I then asked the questions, hoping that you might offer something of real value, in the way of explaining the reasoning behind the cost differences ... and why these exist ... and what industry, economic, and market trends are going to effect this chasm ... but you didn't. So I continue to watch in amazement as you produce what you claim is "information" and present it in what appears to be a biased perspective against wearable computing ... yet you claim that you are just trying to help. Well ... I'm sorry, but I'm trying to provide you with some questions and direction on how you could make your "information" much more valuable to all the people on this thread. For starters, why not provide some real analysis? > Please spend a bit more time doing your own work and be > less dependant on having others do things that we should > reasonably believe you to be capable of. Ahhh ... I have to agree that this sounds like a reasonable request ... can I ask the same of you? Would you please decide to either present some real information and analysis that has value, or at least be honest with the folks here about what you are posting? > Thanks......here is you info Thank you ... I appreciate your response. So from what you are now saying, should I (and everyone else on this thread) decide that this is the only real comparable competitor from your previous list? Now, as for some competitive analysis ... Pricing? You seemed to have compared the "deep discount" price for the Jornada against the "List" price of the Xybernaut MA IV. I can actually get the MA IV for $3199.95 This leads me to believe that 1) you don't do very good research or 2) you have an agenda in trying to show a greater price differential than truly exists. Differences? How about if we outline specific differences between the two products? HP Jornada 1) Non-standard Hitachi SH3 Processor 133Mhz (Whoa ... what runs on that processor?) 2) Memory - 32MB (appears to be the max!) 3) Hard disk - Not included, no support! 4) Display - 640x240 65k colors (permanently attached!) 5) Embedded Keyboard / Keypad 6) Touch Screen (a plus!) 7) One IrDA port (infrared) 8) One RS232C Serial port 9) One PCMCIA Type II slot (single card!) 10) One Compact Flash Type I slot 11) Audio Speaker and Microphone So then we get to the real meat of the discussion ... oh the fine print ... it's not a PC ... no ... it's a "PC companion" ... it doesn't run a "real" operating system ... it's a WinCE machine! It's just a little toy companion to your "real" PC ... I know that you probably already knew that, and you were just unclear in your explanation of it ... So now let's review the MA IV ... Xybernaut MA IV 1) Intel Pentium 200Mhz MMX with 512KB of L2 cache 2) Memory - 32MB upgradable to 128MB 3) Hard disk - 2.1GB internal (will support up to 8GB) 4) Display - Full SVGA NeoMagic graphics adapter - support for Head Mounted Display, Flat Panel Display, and enternal monitor (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768) and on and on ... 5) Standard PS/2 connection for Mouse and Keyboard via mini port replicators 6) Touch Screen on the Flat Panel Displays 7) USB support 8) RS232C and Parallel support via the mini port replicator2 9) Two 32-bit PC-Card PCMCIA Type III slot (two type I or II cards!) 10) SoundBlaster Compatible audio 11) Integrated two button pointing device ... ... and on and on ... I'm hoping that with this "brief outline" that I have provided, you might understand some of the differences between the "light-weight" PDAs that you decided to spew on this thread, and what makes up a "real" PC. I'm also hoping that you realize that, with my background in doing Strategic Business Analysis, I do my research. And I am well versed in this market space and industry. I would be glad to help you out in any way that I can, if you would like to come up to speed ... Now you were saying something about some of the devices on your list being "PCs" ... ???? Scott C. Lemon