The Gates transition, HP's new blades, the Motorola Q and more...

This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss the Bill Gates transitioning out of full-time role at his company. The news came while we were recording the show, so David and I offer our first take. As I posit in my recent post, the transition has been in the works for a while--this is just the formal announcement. David also offers his first hands-on take on the Windows Mobile-based Motorola Q handheld, and we debate the merits of HP's new 17-inch blade system. We discuss AMD's focus on low power and how the entire industry needs some kind of benchmarks to measure multiple dimensions, such as performance per watt and thermal requirements, of server systems.  We also have a bit on Google browser synch,  David's  broken ThinkPad and 

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