Remember this one?

The PMG Quadpad / Paceblade P8 / Akori Ak8  / Press Digital C1 (phew!) got some airtime more than once last year as people re-discovered it thinking it was a UMPC. At the time it was already over a year old and ran a VIA C3 processor. It was close but not really up to that standard of other UMPCs around at the time.

This 8.4″ 4:3 format touchscreen Ultra Mobile is aimed at industrial applications but with all those buttons, it could do a pretty good job as a carputer. The extra vertical space will really help a lot of apps and provides space for an on-screen keyboard.

So where, were we? Oh yes. It got an upgrade to a C7-M ULV processor bringing it up to UMPC 2006 spec - still very useful for XP users. The CPU upgrade isn’t showing on many suppliers websites but Paceblade have already updated theirs.

The Carrypad data sheet has been updated to reflect the new info.