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Also, note how it's running XP in every shot, except the one with the close-up of the camera, where it's running Vista.]]>Aug 6th 2007 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/Aug 6th 2007 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/Aug 6th 2007 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/"More?"
"Yes please"

My gadgy sense is certainly tingling...but does it run linux? ;)]]>Aug 6th 2007 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/It has an odd kind of retro-ish charm to it.

-and yes, nowadays I also wonder what will run Linux.
Ubuntu is what I've been playing with, but one wonders about drivers...]]>Aug 6th 2007 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/Aug 6th 2007 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/Aug 6th 2007 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/Aug 6th 2007 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/06/wibrains-b1-umpc-hideous-yet-strangely-appealing/
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But I must say a UMPC clocked at 1.6ghz for under $775 is pretty amazing (albeit, those are C7m ticks so they don't go quite as far as a Pentium M might at that speed, but still...). Any word on USB ports and SD/CF/Express slots ? HDD size ? SSD availability ? Battery life ?

But really, I wish someone would come up with an optomised gui for devices this size (preferably one you can enable and disable so you can have a normal desktop if/when you hook one of these up to a monitor). It's not even that it's hard to read, it's just that your standard desktop environment isn't necessary on a mobile device.

As for the size, it really doesn't seem all that bad too me. It's not that much larger than a PSP which most don't dispute is fairly portable (compared to a PS2 anyway). I hope Dynamism or Conics picks this one up (anybody know of a similar Gray Market vendor for Korean stuff ?).]]>Aug 6th 2007 3:42PM