[CoLoCo] New HP Mini-Note enters the Ultra Mobile PC Market

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hummer <paul at eventuallyanyway.com>
wrote:

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> > Today I stumbled across this new HP UMPC that looks like it will be
> >  major competition for the OLPC, Eee PC and Cloudbook. Though it is
> >  more expensive, I think it just might be worth it. The models
> > start at $499 and then go up to $849 and some of them come loaded
> > up with SUSE Linux. The $599 model would be my pick, it comes with
> > 1 GB RAM, 120 GB, VIA C7-M ULV processor 1.2 GHz. The specs look
> > good and the computer itself looks sleak and clean. The one
> > downfall with this model is that it does come with Vista, but that
> > would be gone real quick  ;-)
> No solid state drive or flash storage -- that's the killer right
> there.  Not ultra mobile if you can't swing it around...  The drive
> doesn't even have an accelerometer that'll park the drive in certain
> conditions.  Sounds like FIAL to me.  :)
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Check out the $500 one. It has a 4gb flash drive. but only 400mhz fsb as
opposed to 800. Not sure how important that is. I want one. Very cool.
-- 
Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
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