This was definitely hit with the ugly stick but it is good someone is still working with the clamshell approach. I do like my Toshiba Libretto better than the OQO I sold. Hopefully, Sony will take notice and make a clamshell version of the UX (I'm not holding my breath though).
I really wish there were some effective way the FCC could crackdown on the FM transmitters! Every morning and afternoon I have problems with NPR on 88.1 getting knocked out by the FM transmitters. I am so tired of Howard Stern busting into my All Things Considered!!!
These will be good for boot drives but too small for daily work and applications. Hopefully machines that use these will have some kind of secondary bigger storage like hard drives.
Of course eventually local storage should go away as everything goes wireless and we access our 10TB home servers from afar!
I don't understand why Microsoft and Intel are acting like this is going to be something super-special and super-new! I mean come on, OQO has been out for almost two years. Sure MS and Intel reference hardware may be slight more capable than the current handtop crowd but not by enough to warrant this huge ridiculous marketing campaign. One more gripe - stop calling it a "UMPC"! It is a handtop. The marketing droids are leading these companies around by their nose and if they don't realize who their initial target audience is they will fail. Look back at the first adopters of laptops and learn your lesson from that - gadget freaks and business executives will be the first adopters of these devices - not the general consumer.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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