The Raon Digital Vega website is now live!

The “Ultraportable PC Vega” specifications are pretty much as we expected.
There’s no built in Wifi which is very very disapointing. Obviously, space is an issue in such a small package and if you have to choose to between USB ports and built-in Wifi, I guess USB is the more useful. A WLAN adapter is included in the package to ease the pain!

The procesor is the AMD LX800 with its ‘companion chip’, the CS5536. The CS5536 includes 2D processing for video but I’m still baffled as to how Kgadget got good 3D performance out of it in their review. The processor/co-processor combination is just not built for 3D applications. I hope to be proven wrong.

Battery life is quoted as 1.8 hours with the ‘compact’ battery pack. It doesn’t sound much but the compact battery is about 1/20th 1/2 the size of an Origami UMPC battery. Thats very very good. There’s a ’standard’ battery which gives three times capacity.

[correction: 1.8 hrs battery life is quoted for the optional 'compact' battery. With the standard battery (20% larger than most Origami UMPC batteries) the quoted battery life is 'up to' 5.5hours. This is still very good compared to the limit of 3 hours on a standard Origami-based UMPC. (Aug 2006.) ]

The screen is touch sensitive but operating system is Windows XP (presumeably to get the cost down) so there’ll be no ‘inking’ on the standard model.

I can’t find any pricing information for the device yet.

The English version of the website doesn’t seem to be working yet and, annoyingly, most of the text is displayed as bitmaps so I can’t run babelfish on it.

We’re working on getting pricing and availability information from the vendor.

Data sheet for Raon Digital Vega.

Regards
Steve / Chippy.