<![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard]]> How can you guys forget the OQO as the very first slider UMPC with keyboard? (And Sony has several UMPCs - UX280, UX380 and UX390). OTOH, the Sony's screen is higher res than most UMPCs out there (practically all UMPCs under Microsoft's "origami" thing is 800x480 resolution, while the Sony is 1024x600. My Toshiba LIbretto has the best at 1280x800 (720p capable, yahoo!)).

As for whether it's better than a PDA - with battery life, no, but flexibility, yes. In PDAs, I've found stuff like web browsers stink, even though they've got ample computing power with lots of RAM. It seems that the "pocket" versions of common applications are quite limiting, even though tney have processors that can cope with last-generation software for desktop PCs. The only PDAs I've seen come close are Linux ones, and that's because you can run the desktop apps recompiled.

So no, they're not replacing PDAs, but they're certainly encroaching on PDA territory.

Worf

]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard]]> I will buy one of these if it costs $750 or less...

kibets

]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard]]> That thing looks like it has a few chromosones missing.

StackyBotrus

]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard]]> Until someone comes up with some fancy new battery tech, like those carbon nanotube electrode thingamajigs, or those fancy fuel cell batts (cheap and readily available ones, mind you), or those "super-iron" that use ferrate salts, or those wicked ass genetically engineered virus batteries... anything, anything, just get us tons more juice thinner than ever before!

ZFactor

]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Prepping its First Slider UMPC with Keyboard]]> UMPCs are too expensive and just don't meet a large market need. For my money I'd rather have a 5"-7" touch-screen on a twist-n-flip (with standard laptop keyboard) that runs some handheld OS like Palm, Windows Mobile or Linux. If the Nokia web pad were a little more robust in the PIM and productivity side of the software and it came with a simple keyboard, I'd probably buy it.

weatherman

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