It has been at least three years that I’ve owned my Sony VAIO UX180P, and I’ve been using it as my primary PC for a long time. As the internet continues to evolve, I’ve started to notice that my UX180 is slowing down and slowly becoming less that optimal to function as a primary PC. I can’t believe how long it has lasted with only a 30GB HDD, 512MB of RAM, and a 1.2GHz Core Solo CPU. The components of this machine are crammed into an incredibly small package that […]

It’s that time again. Lets have a look at some interesting netbook content from this week. Asus to Phase Out 8.9 Inch Screens in 2009 — Asus started with the 7″ screen, moved up to 8.9″ and now seems to be on track to settle for 10″. Digitimes is reporting that Asus says 95% of its 2009 netbook shipments will be 10″ models. Dell files for cancelation of Psion’s “netbook inch trademark — Dell might not be the biggest netbook company out there, but they are clearly interested in the […]

HP has a mini flash-based site dedicated to the various versions of the Mini 1000 [Portal page]. There is a section dedicated to each edition (MI, XP, and Vivienne Tam). If you roll your mouse over the “Mini 1000 Mi Edition” button and click “Read the Blogs“, you’ll see that the Mini 1000 MIE coverage from ultra mobile PC Portal is being aggregated on the mini site as well as some other sites that are testing out the Mini 1000 MIE. Check out content from several different sites to get […]

We’ve added the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook to our comprehensive Product Portal as well as added a gallery of press shots. I’m looking forward to the Mini 10 and interested to see how it ranks on the Portal’s popularity charts. Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Portal page Dell Inspiron Mini 10 gallery

We might still be waiting to hear more news of the Side Arm 2 rugged UMPC, but in the mean time it seems like we have a different rugged ultra mobile PC to take a look at. Have a look at the Yuma rugged ultra mobile PC from Trimble. 7″ sunlight-readable 1024×600 touchscreen display 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 Windows Vista 32GB SSD 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 GPS dual-cameras USB 2.0 port x 2 SDIO slot ExpressCard slot It seems to be a pretty large slate-ultra mobile PC (read: no […]

Thanks to Slashgear for this demo which convinces me that given a bump up on the font size, the UMID M1 is going to be extremely easy to ‘thumb’ Check out the nice gallery too, over at Slashgear. Thanks Chris! UMID M1 MID typing demo video & gallery – SlashGear.

Pocketables.net  have just reported on the official launch of the UMID M1, one of the favorite devices amongst visitors here (#2 today) and my personal favorite as a potential killer microblogging tool. Local pricing is available and it matches what we heard before but there’s still no news about export pricing or 3G. A quick chat with Mobilx this morning revealed that they don’t have any dates yet but are expecting news very soon. Like Pocketables, we’re expecting a demo device. UMID M1 mbook MID launched in Korea. Source –Lazion […]

While the Mini 9 [Portal page] was pretty standard fare as far as netbooks good, the upcoming Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (which Engadget had some hands-on time with at CES) throws us a few welcomed curve-balls. Dell has finally made it official for the US and the Mini 10 will be available for purchase on February 26th. I’m looking forward to seeing the Mini 10 and here are a few reasons why: True widescreen — 16:9 aspect ratio (10.1″) Macbook-esque botton+trackpad… trackpad — The entire trackpad clicks down and functions […]