UMID mbook M1 now shipping worldwide for $659
By Darren Murph 
posted May 22nd 2009 5:52AM
posted May 22nd 2009 5:52AM
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posted May 22nd 2009 5:52AM
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In 3-6 months this company will be in the grave. The device isn't a pocketable as a smartphone and neither is it as usable for typing on as a netbook. There is no market for it. It's a case of good idea but poor timing and wrong price. UMPC's like OQO are not dead, so someone better prepare the grace stone for MID.
To be honest UMPCs were an excellent idea and I drooled at many of them that were presented during consumer electronic shows, but sadly neither reached humane prices.
Yeah I agree. I mean yeah ok, it's smaller than a netbook. Are netbooks not small enough or something? If I can get a MSI Wind for $299 off of buy.com or wherever else, there's no way I'd look at this for almost twice as much. A netbook is the perfect size for me.
Nice idea, but as noted, at least $400 too expensive.
And, as recent netbook models have shown, their original compact size has been tossed in favour of larger footprints - presumably for vision-challenged touch typists.
@homeboy
errr... i think OQO is dead
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/21/rip-oqo-company-discontinues-repair-service-disconnects-phone/
I got one, and I rather like it. The battery life is more amazing then it's size, and it's size is mind-blowing.
I actually really prefer this size to the size of netbooks- especially since netbooks have been growing exponentially... But I don't see the justification for the price, especially with the rumors regarding build quality...
No 3G/EVDO? Fail. At that price point, a good smartphone is a better solution.
For someone that want's built in 3G, I would maybe think about the HP Mini from Verizon. If you're gonna pay for the connectivity, might as well cheapen the netbook itself.
I'd rather get the Fujitsu u820 if I was this interested in getting something tiny. The difference is something like 180 dollars, but I like the extra features and build quality of the Fujitsu.
$765.78 for the Windows XP model? I wonder if these guys forgot netbooks exist.
this looks like the former design
where's the promised new better looking design????
the referred website shows the black version with whole white keyboard
OMGOOOOODNESS
that's ugly
NO 3G?
WHOAH! no thatnks I'll just get a Pandora for $330..... someday
So THIS is what the former OQO gang has been up to.
Honestly though, agreeing with some tech execs, I think the razor thin margins on netbooks are going to kill some of their manufacturers. How many people would buy a "full" laptop after getting a netbook? It's not like "O I love my $300 netbook so much let me run out and pick up that $800 17" monster". Their Black Friday door buster mentality will drive them into the ground. Margins on those can't be more than 10%. No wonder they're laying off left and right.
Not to mention most netbooks I've played with have such poor build quality that it can only tarnish their brands. If Mercedes also sells their el cheapo cars here in the US (that they sell in the rest of the world), the rich people wouldn't be so quick in plunking down $80k for an S-class.
i'm having deja vu:
http://www.vnunet.com/articles/bigpicture/2013030
overpriced, under powered touch screen gadget?
the HP jornada!!! Circa 2000??!!!
Ya know, I actually USE my hp Jornada 720...Mobile email and web (with PC Card adapter), Office apps, able to hold a 32GB CF card...picked it up on the web for 60 bucks. With Wi-fi and leather case, under 100 bucks, shipped.
Lemme know when this thing is under 400 bucks. Under 250 bucks, used. With WinXP. In all-black, not some psychotronic Asian "design" statement. With a 3.5mm audio jack, not that wacked adapter. Not in several flimsy plasti-chrome cheap-squirtgun-injection-mold-quality pieces, with port covers or KB keys missing and the screen dangling from a cable like the head of a garroted Tamil Tiger...
...dunno where that metaphor came from, sorry...;-{)
Just guess these things are even less likely to last--physically and commercially--than the final remaining Sri Lankan goon hiding out in the swamp...
So the Linux only version says "Low Spec"
Upon further inspection the only difference to the other (Linux/XP) version is "USIM slot x 1(n/a on Lspec Models)" And by that i mean the part of it claiming there is no such thing on the Lspec, (which im guessing means "Low Spec") But lol and behold the technical details of said supposedly "Low Spec" model say:
"USIM slot x 1" ...
In pandora delivery i trust.
I guess the people at EnGadget haven't heard of Plemix. I bought mine there earlier this week and it arrived yesterday. They only had the Linux version, but I had no problem installing XP. Here's the link:
http://www.plemix.com/macc-umid-m1-notebook
Just in case anybody was wondering (and I know I was!), here's where you get the XP Drivers from. The page is in Korean, but the links are English, so just mouse-over them and you can figure out what's what:
http://www.i-mbook.com/download/menual.html
As for all the Haters out there, I like it. I've already used the keyboard quite a bit without any problem, and the screen is remarkably readable for it's diminutive size. I'm having some issue finding Webcam drivers and Skype seems to bog it down. I'm still working out the bugs.
I really think these are the future. A full computer in your pocket! This blows away cellphones and PDA's by a long shot. This is as big a jump in computer usability as the evolution from the 20 pound luggable to the 5 pound notebook. Once these get cellphones installed in them, you'll be seeing these little bad boyz EVERYWHERE. Every businessman will have one.
(Now if only they made one for Sprint.....)
That SUPER EXTRA THICK BEZEL is SO hawt!
NOT..............................................................
Its small, its capable, its a full laptop in your pocket. I have tested one and it is the perfect umpc... well ALMOST. Pop an 850/1900 hspa 3G in there and I'll buy 2