This is what I, perhaps, want in a UMPC

January 10, 2007

Sony UMPC An UMPC — pronounce it so that it sort of sounds like a PC as in ‘ump PC’ — may be in your future. It certainly is in mine. I keep looking at the assorted UMPCs being announced and keep coming back to the one that comes nearest to my desires, which is the Sony Flash-only UMPC. The picture we have here is not of the best but it was taken on a stand at the CER in Las Vegas rather than in a studio. At least it shows it actually exists.

It has been on sale in Japan for a while but now an English language version is to be launched in the US. It is Flash-based, branded Vaio and costs, ahem, $2,500.

For that you get a blue-backlit black QWERTY keyboard. Internally, the star of the show is the 32GB NAND Flash-based solid-state drive, a 1.33GHz ultra-low voltage Intel Core Solo U1500 processor and 1GB of 400MHz DDR 2 SDRAM.

The display is a 4.5in, 1,204 x 600 touchscreen. It is Vista-ready according to Sony but will not run Vista Premium. It has all the goodies on board and will probably be launched commercially next month.

I love it to little bits but who can afford that sort of money?
Source: The Register