Kohjinsha's UMPC gets a taste of SSD

Kohjinsha's UMPC/convertible tablet (and its various incarnations) has already been pretty well received since its release, but the company looks to be sweetening the deal even further, with it now set to offer the diminutive device with some solid state storage in place of the standard hard drive. From the looks of it, a 32GB SSD drive will be your only option on the solid state front, with the other specs remaining the same as before. That includes a 7-inch 1024x600 display, an Intel A100 processor, 1GB of RAM, an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. No word on price just yet, but it'll apparently be available for pre-order tomorrow.

[sylv3r @ Aug 2nd 2007 9:59PM]

The capacity is kinda small but it seems perfect for taking down notes

[dale_nx26 @ Aug 2nd 2007 10:21PM]

I really like the concept of UMPCs, don't know why some people don't. But unless the price is more consumer-friendly (sub-$1000), count me out.

[Mike @ Aug 2nd 2007 11:01PM]

Don't expect sub-1000 on this beast, look's like it will be $2084
http://geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=580

[dcpmark @ Aug 2nd 2007 11:33PM]

Can someone tell me why you would want this over the much cheaper Fujitsu P1610? Seriously......I'd like to know what I'm missing here.

[Steve Paine @ Aug 3rd 2007 5:31AM]

At $2000 there's not much going for it against a P1610 I have to admit.
Steve/Chippy
UMPCPortal.

[flight @ Aug 3rd 2007 9:25AM]

I'm wondering about the specs: I have a Toshiba Libretto U105 (I love this thing), and it has a 1.2GHz Intel processor running WinXP. The Libretto is great, albeit noticeably slower than a larger laptop. How does the 600Mhz in the Kohjinsha measure up?

~flight