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IBM's SoulPad Puts The iPod At The Heart Of The PC
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2005-08-17 15:06:01
As CNET reports, researchers at IBM's Wearable Computing division have developed software that allows the user to carry around their entire desktop environment on an iPod or other portable sotorage device. The software, known as SoulPad, installs on a user's PC and allows the stored desktop environment to be accessed via USB or FireWire."We had been looking at how people can carry their computing environments around without carrying a laptop," Caceres said. "The SoulPad is particularly good for business travelers that carry work between home and office by carrying a small device instead of a full PC. It's also great because it puts very minimal demands on the PC that you are using at the time." IBM has been testing SoulPad on a 60GB iPod Photo using Knoppix (a flavor of Linux) as the autoboot OS in conjunction with VMWare Workstation to establish a stable, virtual PC environment."We chose Knoppix because this flavor of Linux is good at booting on unknown PCs without asking a lot of questions," Caceres said. "In a product version, the user would be able to configure the SoulPad boot sequence so that the device knows what data and applications they want. At the moment, we do it by hand and it takes us a little longer to boot." The process of shutting down and deatching from the host PC takes about 20 seconds while attaching and booting up on a host PC takes around two minutes. With SoulPad, the user can gauge just how powerful the PC needs to be for whatever task is at hand. A clever merging of technologies.
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