I have to agree, though, with the fact that “use your brain” and “good luck with your reading” are defining sentences in your text.

Ciao!

It’s worth your time to do these things since the UMPC you’ve chosen will cost you hundreds of dollars to own in the end. Price, specs, aesthetics, availability, and necessity will mold that conclusion.
Good luck with your reading.

Jerry, I find it peculiar that you find yourself in a position to decide what is both “a lot”, and “unnecessary work”, for someone else who´s been offered just and idea when running his own business (and especially when that particular person has already agreed that it is a not-so-bad idea). But hey, that´s your opinion.

Another opinion could be that 98% of the people I know who have a certain interest in these “new” mobile devices, would NEVER take a fraction of the time I personally take to “know” about them, let alone hunt every single device down just to find out how noisy a particular machine is, coming to a portal like this. However, reading a little table with a scale in it’s way more appealing for the vast majority of the people (knowing what they´re doing, before spending their money, isn´t that the whole UMPCportal idea?). So, by doing what I propose, this customer here, who´s already visiting the portal, is happier; those people who would never come here to read reviews, are more willing to come here; the more traffic for the website makes Steve happier; and perhaps, in the end, the more sales coming from new customers make companies happier, and the whole UMPC business get a little more impulse releasing new models that potentially would make every user out there happier (and hey, that could even include you…).

I don´t know if that´s “correct” for you, but I find amazing how different “opinions” can be, don´t you?

Have a great day.

I realize it has its “difficulty”, but you could always rate the power-save and the full-power states separately (pretty much like they do in notebookcheck dot net with the bigger machines, it´s very visual and understandable).

I think it´s going to be a LONG time til heat and noise become a concern from the past, and in the meantime, having this “exclusive feature” in the UMPCportal list would facilitate our shopping immensely.

Just my wish list, 2 cents-mode.

Thanks Chippy!

I don´t know if that´s difficult to implement, but… pretty, pretty please??

BTW, Chippy, I declare myself a complete nut about cold, silent machines, but it´s getting more and more difficult to remember which units aren’t noisy/toasty/or both. Would it be possible to make an updated short list based on a noise/heat scale?? (Letting us know when the device is just silent, or just toasty, or neither of the two…)

I would find that extraordinary HELPFUL…

Thanks!