Kohjinsha SH-series UMPC bumped to Intel A110 processor

If you're a Kohjinsha fan (and trust us, UMPC pumpers love 'em) then you'll want to take note of this, their latest flagship mini. The new SH8-series eases the processor up a notch to an 800MHz Intel A110 while stiffening the disk to 120GB -- 32GB SSDs still available. Unfortunately, they've somehow managed to decrease battery life from 3.5- to 3.3-hours with the SSD, or 3.1-hours with an HDD -- a real no-no for ultraportables. You'll be looking at ¥238,000 (about $2,047) fully specced with a 1Seg TV tuner and Vista / MS Office pre-load when these hit Japan in September. Docked, white-on-black style after the break.

[Via Impress]

[ark_v2 @ Sep 5th 2007 2:12AM]

Oh I always wanted so say something like this: "That antenna is so 80's" ^___^

[goggle @ Sep 5th 2007 2:28AM]

decrease in battery life probably due to switch from XP to Vista.

same thing happened with Sony SZ, battery went from 6 hrs to 5 or something like that.

[soviet_vexxer @ Sep 5th 2007 2:40AM]

why would you want something so small? save 1000 bucks and get a macbook or save 1500 and get any old pc. you'll get twice the specs for only a couple inches. nobody is so cramped they cant spare a couple inches.

[Taylor @ Sep 5th 2007 2:45AM]

Moreso, who would want to run Vista with 800mhz of processing power?

[EL_DOKTOR @ Sep 5th 2007 2:47AM]

yo quiero uno de estos... :_____D

[Icaro @ Sep 5th 2007 3:33AM]

LoL, It's Nice.

[metfoo @ Sep 5th 2007 4:43AM]

i will stick with my q1u

[Alex Rico @ Sep 5th 2007 6:03AM]

Hi there. Here we come again!!

[Tony C @ Sep 5th 2007 8:15AM]

I still think this thing looks like a portable DVD player with a keyboard. It really neeeds to have a bigger screen and a mucho lower price tag.

[Ratchet the Lombax @ Sep 5th 2007 8:16AM]

I think I will just stick with my OQO Model 2 but this does look nice though.

[ark_v2 @ Sep 5th 2007 12:56PM]

The model 2 is a lot better and more stylish IMO.

[Reynaldo Esparza @ Sep 5th 2007 10:44PM]

Podrian regalarme una, porfavor.

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 5th 2007 10:12AM]

Man, these things are cool.

Me wantee!

[Cinda @ Sep 5th 2007 10:13AM]

so cool

[kenekaplan @ Sep 6th 2007 2:14AM]

You can see video of few UMPC/MID prototypes we posted on the Technology@Intel blog this evening http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2007/09/intels_silverthorne_chip_insid.html.