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

To: Mr. Park who wrote (2648)	5/29/1999 2:56:00 AM
From: Dave Shoe	Respond to of 6847

>>>When the MA IV was introduced the max chip available >>>to the public at the time was no more than 350MHZ I believe 350/366MHz would have been the speed for desktop PC's, but they use a high power processor which requires fans and heatsinks. Used in a portable PC of any type, the battery life would be measured in minutes. Laptops and wearables use a low-power version of the Pentium microprocessor. I believe they were running as fast as 200MHz early on in the MA-IV development, and 233MHz a short time later. Since then the energy sipping Pentium-MMX laptop processors have been bumped to 266 and now 300 MHZ, and the faster PII laptop processor has emerged and now stands at 333MHz (if my memory serves me). >>>XYBR's inability to come out with a cheaper >>>consumer friendly model has definitely turned me off I know what you mean, but I just don't think that sufficient technology will be available at the right price for Xybernaut to hit the price point for another two years plus. Even the 333MHz PII isn't quite fast enough to handle the user interface (UI) burden of a wearable. I may be happy with the performance of my 200MHz desktop machine here at home, but the UI load of a keyboard and mouse is miniscule compared to the touchpad, speech recognition, eye motion recognition, muscle action recognition, and brainwave (EEG)recognition requirements of a 'hands-free' computer. >>>I do believe however that wearable computers will >>>someday become a common thing. I believe that pocket computers will someday become popular. Wearables will maintain a dominant position in industry, but after reading that Gov't agency review yesterday, I don't see it breaking loose until 600MHz chips are the baseline. >>>If XYBR does not improve the MA line at a faster >>>pace then they will become obsolete. I agree. To be fair, I think the Newmans are doing their very best on a limited budget. They had to make technical commitments many months ago that they must live with now. Certainly they always sound more optimistic than I would expect when I hear them quoted. Still, I'm just trying to be objective. I don't see the MA-IV scoring big, but I sure hope Xybernaut can pull it off somehow. Shoe.