Comments on: Dell Gets Closer to my Dream Machine http://gigaom.com/2008/08/17/dell-gets-closer-to-deam-machine/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Patrick Perez http://gigaom.com/2008/08/17/dell-gets-closer-to-deam-machine/#comment-75352 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:31:37 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3377#comment-75352 I haven’t seen anything that discusses this, but I strongly suspect that the instant access info will not be able to access data on an encrypted hard drive. The industry I work in demands all notebooks have encryption and this will only become more prevalent as businesses face their fiduciary responsibility.

I would think the only way around this would be a client utility that writes data into a non-hard drive area while Windows is running.

Patrick

]]> By: Robert http://gigaom.com/2008/08/17/dell-gets-closer-to-deam-machine/#comment-75351 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:58:03 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3377#comment-75351 I’m left wondering…I’ve got a Dell MediaDirect laptop with a similar function to ON, except instead of e-mail, it boots into a mini-OS that pretty much turns the laptop into a portable DVD player…I’m now pondering if it would be possible to hack that button to get the ON feature (the DVD playing software is stored on a separate partition, not embedded in a chip.) Hmm…

]]> By: Blog Administator http://gigaom.com/2008/08/17/dell-gets-closer-to-deam-machine/#comment-75350 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:57:25 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3377#comment-75350 This I suppose is exciting for some, it is kind of getting old to read about now. Digital nomads have been around for some time, and rugged notebooks are nothing new.

Oh well…:)

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