Thanks for the above article, can you confirm if the gigabyte M528 Menlow based or silverthorne as mentioned above ?

“That’s a figure I’ve only ever seen beaten by my modified Samsung Q1 Ultra (with SSD that can get down to 4.7W) and of course the SILVERTHORNE-based Gigabyte M528 which can get down below 3W drain.”

Any predictions on the gb-912v as this looks a sweet spot in price performance.

cheers

Isn’t that the route that, the previewed “AMD UMPC/Clamshell device” took in that trade show promo-demo prototype device that was seen and videoed at Computex, covered at UMPCportal & jkk, at that time? And it even had touchscreen and no touch pad (reduced size resulting).

Again, That is the device I am waiting to see. Any news yet on that one?

It might not be the wonderful Eee 901, but with a dual power mode processor, and the size, we only need to see where it stacks up in the battery area (one drawback for their battery life will be that they will have a smaller battery due to the small physical size of the unit)! It will be interesting how they can extend that AMD device past the projected 2.5 hours of life. Right now… we all agree that, with the battery life data, that the Eee 901 is the best portable laptop option (once it has touchscreen at the retail level then it will be even better).

As a fun observation, jkk is always loving his Microsoft install on these devices, so it is good to have these MS install reviews. However, does he ever play much with loading various Linux distros, or does he focus mostly on just the MS OS versions? Of note: adding to the cost of Windows over Linux is the additional price tax of course for Windows because of the NEEDED Anti-Virus subscriptions that must be used. With Linux, you can install a distro, lock down as “read only” the system files (can even be in own partition, unlocking those files just before system updates, then locking down again after system update is done), and that is all…! Other than that to run Windows in a quasi safe more… there will be another option in the future as Linux is building a native Kernel level Virtual Machine, so it will be interesting if a nonpersistent VM mode (does not save changes or viruses acquired during working session after shutdown of the VM session) will be available so that we can then run Windows in a quasi-protected mode where if we get a virus it does not live past shutdown of the VM Windows guest session. And run all this on top of LINUX VM Host in a locked down mode itself…AND do all this in a low power/long battery life and very pocket ready UMPC or Netbook?

For business to really love any of these small devices (to replace Blackberry), give the device at least an 8 hour use time on one battery.

my vlited vista ultimate needs approximately 3,5 GB of storage space, which i find quite acceptable…you can probably make it even smaller, because there’s so much stuff that you won’t actually need on a UMPC/netbook…

Same thing for super-efficient batteries to reduce weight, the additional cost is probably disproportionate to the benefit.

If Vista is ever fixed and reduced to a nice small footprint on my drive, and offers the option of getting rid of all the processor-hungry and superfluous eye candy it presently imposes, I’ll reconsider Vista as an option. But I’m not holding my breath. The whole Steve Jobs-inspired “form over function” thing seems to be an irreversible trend.

Too itchy trigger-finger Chippy!