Talk to me when these things are $500 which is about what they're worth. Pfft, almost a grand or more after taxes. Are they TRYING to make sure people don't buy UMPC,s or are they just stupid? Sure geeks and early adoptors might fork over for them but for someone like me, if I'm going to spend a grand then I'll just spend the extra few hundred and get a laptop. My guess is that they know that a $500 UMPC would kill the palm market, I mean why spen 4 or 500 on a crappy 4 gig Lifedrive when I can carry a whole XP PC? Call me crazy but I think that they're pricing these things right out of the market before they even get going.
Sad thing is, with pricing up near a grand, UMPC's will wither and die on the shelf for the most part. Sure the geeks might buy a few but for these things to be acceptable to the public in general, they need to be in the 500 dollar range and not a penny more. I know if I spending the kind of scratch they they want for these, I'm probably going to spend the extra few hundred and get a laptop. Too bad I was looking forwad to UMPC's as a handy tool to carry around, but not at almost $1000.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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