Um. If it was that easy to sue other companies based off of looks, Apple would win every law suit against other companies based on aesthetics. But, they don't because they can't. It's more than likely here that Franklin has a licensed agreement on the hardware design from Sony Electronics. They are a global company and usually don't make mistakes that would land them in hot water unless they feel it's justified(by showing evidence of early patent prior to the competitors). It's not unusual for any company to borrow a design patent legally and run with it. HTC licenses out designs all the time. They don't sue because they don't have to.

Because the Core 2's do NOT support Symmetric Multiprocessing as the Xeons do. Thus, you can only use Xeons in 2-way or greater configuration. The FB-DIMM support pretty much made that obvious as there are no Core2Duo or Core2Quad that support FB-DIMM's in the first place. It's basically a Xeon system custom made for Gaming. It was cheaper to use a processor (Xeon) that supported 2-way functionality already rather than fabricate a new processor(Core2) to support such a niche factor market. There is a thread in forums.2cpu.com on the whole ordeal.

How can a company that purchase Sonic Foundry's Vegas and Acid Pro and Sound Forge products, turn around sell a HD editing system with an Adobe product? Who's in charge of management here to make such an idiotic decision?

It's like Microsoft selling Xbox360 with a PS3 games for it.

You still haven't answered the main question: Have you ever used a UMPC with Vista on it? If the answer is no. Then you pretty much ended any relevance on the discussion. We've been shipping the devices with Vista since turn of the year and, it's not a usable device. Not because of the hardware, but the resource demand that the OS puts on the hardware itself. The Hardware runs fine with XPT and Ubuntu.

Have you ever used ANY UMPC before? Trying to use Vista on a Desktop with 2GB of memory and a decently spec processor is hard enough. Try running the same desktop OS on something well under the specs of a Desktop in the palm of your hand and you'll see how much of an impact the OS is on the device itself. The problem with Vista on the UMPC is;

1)High demand on system resources. Which drive the cost up in hardware up to pacify performance of the OS in specifically.

2) Vista as an OS on mobile devices drain the battery dramatically because of a few vulnerable bugs in the OS itself. (not sure if MS even patched it yet or will at all.)

3)The OS is too slow to be used with such minor hardware. Hence, the use of XP Tablet edition is installed and used with satisfaction.

XP has full support. Not only from MS, but from the OEM it was purchased from. Most, if not all OEM's have to support the OS in its current state. Dell and HP make Support Resource packs available for the systems with their brand name on it. It's usually around 30-70MB download. It's similar to a Service pack without the name SP in it.

IIRC, the A110 CPU is Dual Core @ 800Mhz. Why a UMPC needs a Dual Core processor is beyond me. The OS takes advantage of it, but that's where it stops at.

And reduce your battery capacity?

Was this type of keyboard/gamepad seen on the Atari Jaguar or Sega Saturn in japan years ago?

Isn't this device the same size as an OQO Model 02? I wish engadget would compare the two models. Because if the Model 02 is the same as this product, then HTC has no Advantage with this. (no pun intended)