This project has been in my mind for months now and I’m really happy that its now going ahead. Its a challenge. Its going to be fun and its going to test UMPCs to the limits. How mobile and power-efficient are they? Can you really use one for a week without charging it from the mains? How much energy can you get from the sun? That’s what I’m planning to find out on the Solar ultra mobile PC Tour with my sponsor VIA Technologies and my energy-advising solar fanatics, Select Solar UK.
Bike, Tent, UMPC, mobile phone, camera, GPS, ultra mobile PC and hopefully, sun, will join me down in south Germany some time in the next 8 weeks for an on-the-road real-life test. During the tour I’ll be continuing to run my business and will be journaling the whole event, flat batteries and all, on a new blog.
The new blog – Solar UMPC – will have all the information about the project and will also be the place where I detail all my planning, research, testing and problems along with photos, videos, maps and Solar ultra mobile PC related information and news. I hope to see you over there and as I mentioned in my first post, if you have advise, please let me know. Now if you’ll excuse me for a while, I need to go and buy a bike!
