Another vote for TRS-80. It looks very '80s indeed...I'm surprised it doesn't have faux wood grain appliques on it...
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 ?).
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Another vote for TRS-80. It looks very '80s indeed...I'm surprised it doesn't have faux wood grain appliques on it...
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 ?).