Dadi Perlmutter Keynote
IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session
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again, Yahoo email, number one email service in the world on
your ultramobile PC. So again, we are really excited about this.
This is a real way of bringing what we call the lean-back Internet
into the next phase. And, you know, very happy to work with
Intel.
David Perlmutter: Okay, thank you very much, Marco.
Marco Boerries: Thank you.
[Applause]
David Perlmutter: So, this is really taking years of the ecosystem that was built in
the past 25 years, from application to services to capabilities,
running on the machine or over the Internet into these smaller
and smaller devices.
But that's not it. We have to educate our next generation so
they're going to consume our wonderful devices then. So, this is
the next thing that we can do with the UMPC technology. This is
a PC. Really useful for kids. And this is what you might want to
think your kid to have. First, it's very light. Two-hundred-and-a-
half -- sorry, 2.5 pounds. Two hundred pounds would be tough.
[laughter] Well, my daughter could, but maybe other daughters
could not. [laughter]
Another thing for my daughter that I'm told this is [a rugged] PC,
so if I drop it from three feet, it should not break. I will not tell my