By the time America is waking up tomorrow, I’ll be feeling up an Everun UMPC. If I’m a lucky boy I’ll even get to take it away which is very very exciting for me as I was just about to order one. To me its just about as close as I think one can get to the ideal consumer ultra mobile PC at the moment. For the first time we’re going to see a solid state drive, auto screen rotate and this brand new keyboard layout. Add 6 hours of battery life, docking station capability, sub 500G weight and that great pricing and I think you have a winner. Throw away your MP3 players, your media players and forget about the iPhone. For the ultimate in consumer convergence just go out and buy a very small, very stylish 3G phone with a decent camera, data card slot and mp3 capability and then use the Everun for everything else. Videos, navigation and route planning, Internet applications, IM, Skype, blogging, emails, ebook reader etc etc etc. Lovely. Keep the desktop at home for the high-end gaming and video work. That’s the three-device strategy!
Questions I have at the top of the list:
- Keyboard – Good enough?
- Optical mouse – Does it work?
- Battery life – For real?
- Size – Too big?
- XP on LX900 processor with 1GB and SSD – Fast?
- When will the dock and car mount be available?
- 280 nits screen good enough for outside?
- Mini-PCI. Can I use it for something else? External GPU for example
- Does the Terratec Cynergy Piranha work with it?
For a re-cap, take a look at the video we took at Computex 2007 along with the hands-on comments. Full device line-up here.
