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    Dynamism Giving Away Freebies with a Viliv S5 Purchase

    Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/14/09

    In reply to Dynamism Giving Away Freebies with a Viliv S5 Purchase
    Why is it designated UMPC when the tag says PMP?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/14/09

    In reply to Dynamism Giving Away Freebies with a Viliv S5 Purchase
    I'll pass on the free carrying case, and wait for Apple to come out with one of these.


    /no, I'm not shirk

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    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    Can you post some pics of the OS displayed on the screen and not just movies playing? Would like to see the keyboard, dialog boxes, etc. Thanks.
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    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    Also, MID's should have more meatspace functionality, like a pocket knife, and tweezers built in, and a slot to hold your id and a credit card.
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    04/24/09

    @weshirecat: And a fleshlight.
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    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    a slight bit bigger, like 7"ish or 8"ish, please.
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    04/24/09

    @yogibimbi: Hell, this thing as a low-end slate tablet in the 10-12" range would rock my sox!
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    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    this is off-topic...but


    what's the netbook in the picture? HP 1000? The hardware looks pretty decent.

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    04/24/09

    @nautilus.: that's not an HP - I have one, and that's not what they keyboard looks like. It might be one of the new Eee 1002H...?
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    04/24/09

    @weatherman: The article says it's an Asus eee 1000he.
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    04/24/09

    @Barry99705: right you are!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    It's a tough sell now that I use my iPod touch. Of course, the obvious caveats like lack of Flash or being able to freely donwload content over the internet is there, but for just plain surfing, it works considerably well. I'd say that this is still a reasonable enough impulse buy, but I wouldn't trade my iPod for it.


    I have to agree with Wilson though. At its price and size, the differences between it and a netbook can become sort of moot, at least for me. I'd have to carry something to carry it in, so I could just as well get a cheaper netbook that has an actual VGA port if I want to occasionally expand it in desktop mode.


    That said, it's a damnably attractive gizmo.

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    04/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I would love to have this device but with a 10" screen/form-factor and a proportionately sized slide-out keyboard. I would pay ~$500 or a little more for that! (provided it has both a enhanced touchscreen and a tablet style digitizer)
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    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    I've never understood what "MID" stood for. Cowon and Archos make them, too, but what's a "MID"?


    Anyhow, there's got to be a place for these things in the gadget pantheon. I could see them as being kind of nice for bigger-screen playback of video content, and handy for dumping photographs to when on-the-go. While Mark doesn't seem to like MIDs, and maybe that's why there are no plusses in this lightning review, but they seem to be filling a niche for people who don't want to carry a blackberryish thing around, don't do a lot of typing, and don't want the bulk of a netbook.


    I'll throw the question to fellow commenters, too -- Why do companies make MIDs, and who's the target market?

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    04/24/09

    @ninjagin: Mobile Internet Device, which is a more generic term than the Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer. MIDs covers everything, including devices running Linux, while UMPC is a term invented by Microsoft with a specific specification in mind that runs Windows.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    and a slide -ut QWERTY and I want it.
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    04/24/09

    @Voyou_Charmant: out*
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    Image of MiltoxBeyond MiltoxBeyond
    04/24/09

    In reply to Viliv S5 Lightning Review (Netbook, Meet MID)
    The fact it is Relatively Cheap and has an Accurate Touchscreen is a con?
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    04/24/09

    @MiltoxBeyond: Crap! Fixing.
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    04/24/09

    @Mark Wilson: hey is the touchscreen capacitive or resistive??
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    04/25/09

    @Vortex388: Resistive.
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