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Monday, April 15, 2002
http://www.e-insite.net/commvergemag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA210875&spacedesc=news Take it away - Wireless Tablets Maury Wright, CommVerge Back at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, Bill Gates used his annual keynote speech to focus on a technology called Mira as the latest way to endear tablet-like computers to the masses. In the past, the tablet PC has taken the form of a standalone system with a full complement of components. Mira seeks to lower costs by wirelessly linking a relatively "dumb" tablet to a PC in the home office or den. A Mira panel, connected by an 802.11 link, would not include the disk drive, memory, CPU, and other components found in a full tablet PC. Instead, it would rely fully on the remote PC for those functions, serving simply as a remote monitor with either touchscreen input or perhaps an optional keyboard. A user might take the Mira panel to the living room to, say, refine a work document during the evening or maybe play along with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The user would have full access to the capabilities of the host PC, including Internet access....
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