03/18/06
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lironharel
Its march 18 and I havn't heard any cPC news lately... so I gess they are afraid from the UMPC competitors?
too bad... it was still the most powerful handtop
03/18/06
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jo2k
claiming vaporware is a bit premature imho. give it a little more paitence.
03/19/06
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cobalt
The UMPC isn't that big of a deal. $1500 for a 1.5GHz VIA C7M / 400MHz X-Scale handheld device with Tablet OS/WM5.0 is still a good price for those who would really benefit from those features. I think the shared drive / Outlook and instant switching is a very desirable feature, and $800 for a 1GHz VIA CPU versus $1500 for the cPc makes the cPc a competitive product, IMO.
This is mainly a corporate product, and it competes fine with the UMPC. The cPc was never in danger of taking off in the consumer market. If you're a company exec, you might get UMPCs for your workers, but you could easily end up wanting the cPc for yourself.
03/19/06
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anthonyb
Dualcore has been shot to death by the big pocketed companies making UMPC and is "officiall" dead. With the absence of any announcement from dualcore corporate folks, I took it upon myself to issue the 'Official Announcement" a few weeks ago.
Go home people and spend time with your families. Stop hanging around here (anywhere) waiting for dualcore.
Eventhough I have made the "Official Announcement I know that a lot of you will continue waiting around for a dualcore and I feel sorry for you. This behavior reminds me of the saying, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink"
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03/19/06
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slickster
Lol comon bud.. UMPC's are overpriced .. Samsung $1199!!!! DualCor $1500.00!!! BTW the link I sent you shows they are 100% strong brotha! BTW take a look at the new issue of Laptop brutha!
03/20/06
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cobalt
That saying doesn't make any sense in this situation.
03/20/06
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wraith808
At this point, anthonyb's action are more akin to the people you see on the nintendo/psp forums bashing the others' products. It's too early to declare vaporware, and I for one hope that both of them find a market- heck I hope the the UMPC finds a market too. Why? Innovation. I want a converged device that I can keep in my pocket and use for my pc and sync up with when I get home. I've tried all of the pocket oses (Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm), and in the end, I don't want a different os for my handtop. I want windowsXP on my handtop, and perhaps a small phone to go along with it. And then I'll be happy. and the only way we are going to get there is to have several people pushing from several directions.
03/20/06
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anthonyb
The dfference is that I am only joking. I swear I mean to harm and I will stop.
I am with you regarding every feature that you want and like you I don't care who gives it to me be it OQO, Sony, (can't belive I'm about to mention dualcore) Dualcore, Samsung.
The only company the would be prefered over all the rest would be Apple. I want an Apple UMPC. The OQO is as close to what I can get now.
When I start getting compared to people on PSP type forums then I know its time to stop taking jabs at what could be (but will never be) a cool product.
03/21/06
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cobalt
What's funny about the idea of an Apple UMPC is that it would not be as popular as a lot of people think. The value of the UMPC is primarily that it runs XP Tablet OS. The UMPC brings the cost of having a Tablet PC by about 50 percent on average. You can't buy it separately, but given the cost of the different versions of XP, probably about 30-40 percent of the price of the UMPC accounts for the OS alone.
Unless Apple has been secretly continuing Newton development, it seems like Apple is at a disadvantage from the standpoint of product development and software development (voice recognition, writing recognition). More importantly, the UMPC's biggest asset is full XP comptability-- if it ran WM5.0, it would be a joke... an oversized PDA. If Apple made a $1000 UMPC and their ads said, "Fully compatible with all of your OSX files and applications!" it just isn't a big draw. I'm sure the design would be great, and existing Apple users would be thrilled, but unless Apple could pull off something big, I don't see a big market for that. This is a self-propagating issue: Windows is popular because Windows is popular because Windows is popular.
Let's be serious: Apple's iPod took off after Apple released a Windows version. If they can induce PC users to get an Intel Mac and create a bigger market of OSX users, that would be necessary I think before putting out an OSX UMPC. The new Macs are the best computers Apple has ever made, and given the news about XP on Intel Macs, they might be the first computer to run OSX/UNIX/XP. But no one is going to get an Apple tablet as their first OSX computer unless it is fully compatibile with their existing tech.
Just to be clear, though, if I were a Mac user right now (I used to be and would switch back in the right circumstance, because I'm more concerned about myself than big software and electronics corporations), I would be crying for an Apple UMPC.
03/21/06
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anthonyb
I would get a mac if someone sold an X-Fi card. My home theater is awesome using X-Fi.
03/21/06
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arodriguez
id buy a apple umpc but the truth is that apple doesnt want to show whether or not they work on such thoughts therefore dualcor and oqo are the only full os hadtops i care about.
when does the "first quarter" end? its not going to be march when cpc is out. its gonna be the last day of the "last quarter"
