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Good progress I guess. The 2-3 hour battery life of current gen UMPC bugs me. Will OQO be now able to squeeze an Intel CPU in? Or they have to wait for the newer platforms in 2008/2009 to be viable?  |
Really, if these companies want to move the volumes [necessary to recover development costs], they need to get the price down a lot more than just "somewhat more affordable".
For most people a UMPC is a secondary (or even a tertiary) system and the average person isn't going to drop over $1K for a system described as such.
They need to hit the lower-cost laptop target, which will get people thinking of the laptop idea but want yet more portability. They need to hit the $500-$600 mark, or thereabouts I figure, before they will even begin to start moving the volumes they have predicted.