Tech Eye: Is that a PC in your pocket or ...

When, at the tender age of 14, we got turned down for a jig and a reel at the local crossroads dance by the best looking woman in the village, we wasted no time in branding her a lesbian at church the next day. When the next-door neighbors were looking all smug and pleased with themselves because they were the first people in the village to have a fancy indoors toilet, we were straight on the phone to grass them up to the local planning department. And when our best friend got a new job that put his wage packet well above ours, we wasted no time in ringing up his new boss and revealing his past life as a porn peddler.

Indeed, there are few levels to which we will not stoop, and as a small and petty man with certain minimal issues, both physical and mental, we're of the firm conclusion that small things are good. So it is with no little joy that we unearthed this mini wonder. This is the OQO Model 01 Ultra Personal Computer (TechEye likes the idea of an ultra-personal computer, as there's plenty of stuff on its hard drive that various international police forces and human rights organizations may take offence to). It's a full PC that runs Windows XP, has a slidey outey keyboard, 20GB hard drive and a five-inch screen all in something the size of an anorexic PDA. However, no amount of fingers down your PDA's throat is going to get it to perform like this little beauty, thanks to its 1Ghz processor and 256MB of RAM. Firewire and USB 1.1 ports are present and correct and it has a little TrakStik mouse with a digital pen and thumbwheel to boot. You will need about 1,500 (zł.8,600) clams, if clams are still worth a British pound a piece as they were in TechEye's day, to get your sweaty paws on one.

LM