> What about the new UMPCs about to come out? Real processor, vga out and usb > host. Will you guys be looking at these as they come out? After removing the > LCD panel and backlight, their run time should improve.. I've got a Sony Vaio U70p which is essentually a UMPC that you could buy over the last few years; 800x600 200dpi touch screen, no keyboard (small foldable one comes with, but not attached), 1.1GHz Pentium M (about 2x the speed of an OQO), 20GB drive, 512MB RAM, USB 2, VGA w. small dongle, 802.11b, 5 hours with extended battery, same price as an OQO. ~1.1lbs It works rather well driving an SV-6 and a USB digitizer pulling in 640x480 video. Battery life should be better once I get around to the shutting off the backlight and screen, but I've been lazy/busy of late. Based on that experience the current and what I see coming in the next generation of Intel mobile processors (should be even better in terms of battery life and performance) the UMPCs should provide one or two suitable wearable platforms with very respectable performance and I/O in the next year... I'd guess 30% cheaper too, although still north of 1K at least in the first year. My 2 cents, -chris _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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