How about a 1-pound personal computer that you can clip on your belt? "Oqo" is coming
| April 21, 2008 |  View for printing |
A little-known San Francisco firm has created a personal computer that weighs 1 pound, clips onto a belt like a cell phone and runs any Windows program.
Born in a warehouse in Hunters Point, Oqo http://www.oqo.com/ (pronounced O-Q-O) is the brainchild of a team of former Apple and IBM engineers who set out to create a new genre of ultra-small, fully functional, go-anywhere PCs.
That was in 2000. Eight years and a few false starts later, Oqo has matured into a firm with 100-plus employees, more than $20 million in sales and one huge challenge: to defend its niche against computer giants like Hewlett-Packard, Acer and the Taiwanese firm Asus that have either launched or are poised to launch their own ultra-portable PCs.
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
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