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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I don't have a use for it yet, and I don't like the design. It shouldn't look like a wall wart; or at least it should be at the end of a short power cable (so it doesn't block the other outlets). And I don't like that it only has the one USB port; firewire would be a better choice.
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Looking like a wall wart is likely just a coolness matter. The key to the PlugComputer is getting a complete system into that form factor. The wall wart design is just packaging. If this takes off, I suspect we'll see other designs.
And I don't see possibly obscuring an outlet as an issue. I doubt this puppy is aimed at the consumer market. Like yourself, most home users won't have a use for it. It might do very well in a commercial/industrial environment, where the space it would be installed in would have outlets designed to be places to plug it in.
And I don't think Firewire would be a better choice. USB is ubiquitous. Firewire is not. Firewire still holds an edge on speed over USB 2.0 due to architecture, but that edge requires Firewire on both sides, and for a variety of things you might want to connect to a Plug, that won't be the case. Think of a Plug as being a
very smart controller connecting to peripherals over a net work, rather than as a general purpose computing device, and I think you'll be far closer to the intended mark.
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Dennis