Sunday, January 27, 2013

PC USB, works on tablet, TV, and monitor

There will be really good news this year and it will be a new part of a technology that might be either successful or a failure. Dell is planning to release a computer that is 3.5 inches long and 1.5 inches wide which is basically the size of a normal usb device. This device will act as an computer which you will be able to plug it in to a monitor or a TV. This device has also 2 ports for the mouse and the keyboard, and it also supports touch screen. It's chip is called the ARM system created by an unknown vendor. The price of this device or the Ophelia will be less than 100$. This device would be working on the cloud network, and it is said that this device will have the Android Operating System which will include 8 GB of memory and an SD card slot up to 32 GB. You are able to plug in this device through USB or MHL, which will support the 1080p or the HD mode.

Major Concepts


  • Dell is planning to release a USB size like PC which you are able to plug into tablets, TVs, or monitors
  • The Ophelia is likely to work with a tablet having abilities that include the Android OS support SD cards.
  • The price of the device would be less than $100 which everybody is able to afford, which it will be working as a cloud device, enabling remote desktop connect.
  • The Ophelia is one of a new tested technologies that will be working on the HD through small sized connections.


Potential Strengths/Advantages

The author had many advantages, in which he clearly got exact numbers on what he is describing on, I think that giving the actual number is always good so people would know it in real life. He also showed a picture of it comparing with glasses which gives us a better understanding of the size. I also find the author really good that he actually told us what OS it will be using and he mentioned it will function really good on a tablet. This would give the readers enough information about thinking to save money for it, rather than just buying a tablet now, in which I'm really interested because I want to buy a tablet but when I see this article I decided to wait for a while. This device would be released probably in the 6 month.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

There is mainly one disadvantage that the author had in which when you scroll down, the text below the picture looks like it's copied and pasted into this website because it's lined up into own lines with quotes in some lines. I feel that he has this disadvantage because readers might think that the whole article is from somewhere else and you will lose interest in reading. Overall this is the only problem he had in this article.  

Discussion Questions

One big question I would like to ask is that will it be possible for them to make such a thing because I'm really interested in buying one of these which could save me lots of money actually getting a tablet. I would like to also ask that will this new device be useful for education or just for applications because it's using an Android, and I want it to run a windows 8 because in Androids you are unable to run many things that a PC can do. The biggest change I want if this device does work, is please make it to windows 8.



Thibodeau, Patrick. "A New Computer That Defies Category." Computerworld. N.p., 23 Jan. 2013. Web. 28 Jan. 2013.

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