At the moment I use the mtron SSD drive in a OQOe2 .. and the mtron is 50% quicker than the 64Gb samsung SSD .. so I get OQOe2 with 27000 Crystalmark only 22000 with samsung and 16000 with hitachiHD..

Till now, oqo was a little bit too weak with large spreadsheets (500mb).. so I expect the raon note to be perfact on this point… I hope that a large battery will be avaiable soon .. I need a real 3hours .. that’s the main weakness … 3g is really esay to get with ICS or Iphone I wouldn’t use UMPC battery for such 3g (wifi is better).

In short, it would not have anything much more to offer than the current competition.

in the end it boils down to what YOU personally prefer. so basically all the devices have a strong point. i was nearly ordering the everun note…then steve posted the news about the benq mid s6. now that’s what i want, small, pocketable, not extremely powerful so better battery life and..LINUX. forget windows or mac on these devices. those are large screen desktop operating systems with small menus and icons. we NEED new operating systems or user interface. i don’t understand why people want XP on a 4.8 gigabyte or benq?? apple with the iphone did the best thing, even though i’m not an apple fan..
ok, that was off topic. now why not the everun? sure, it has the power to replace a notebook or desktop for slower performance tasks, but… it does not have those mobility features i want: long battery life and smaller size. the benq mid is perfect. it’s smaller, very pocketable, linux and…it comes with 3G! basically the idea of these devices is to be connected anywhere where i cannot connect with a pc or laptop! at home i have my powerful notebook, in the office the same, outside while with friends or whatever i don’t need horsepower to do programming or whatever, but just be able to connect and check out some things without having the need to find a hotspot where i have to pay anyway…

ooook, that was a lot…

Also, I would prefer a system that would support further down clocking as well.
Only, it’s much cheaper and faster to lower the multiplier, than lowering the FSB speed.

I read an article a while ago,that engineers are capable of lowering FSB speeds per Mhz, but that dynamically increasing and decreasing this process had to be done in steps; and many applications would experience a few ms lag while up throttling the frequency.
I read the multiplier could be much easier lowered to half it’s speed, basically using the FSB speed only on the positive cycle.
Every negative cycle the CPU would send and receive zero data.
So technically the CPU would be running at full speed (eg:1,6Ghz), only now the down cycle of the 2 does not process anything (effectively running @ 800Mhz), resulting in power saving of 30-45% of the cpu.

Same goes for the memory.

In other words, for now the dynamically fine throttling of the CPU you won’t find in cheap UMPC’s since the hardware supporting this is quite expensive (it’s not only the CPU that will be adjusted when adjusting the FSB, the north/southbridge as well, which could lead to instability with USB devices, and CD-rom drives and the likes…)

The only thing this device has is sufficient processing power to process most 3D shoot em ups from say 2006-2007 and before.

Also, if the everun only supports upto 1 RAM stick,I would recommend waiting for a better gaming device that supports dual DDR.
You probably won’t find a device like this with sufficient battery life for under $1000.

Secondary I would like it to run linux, to be able to further develop my linux skills on the go.

Thirdly,when I get tired, I’d love to play a nice sim, or little game that’s just good enough to relax.
No 3D shoot em ups I mean!

I can imagine some people wanting to use the device as a GPS device using a GPS puck, and 3G.
Sounds really awesome to me!
But I believe unless you’re someone regularly making hikes, or get lost often, for me I’d practically use it the first 2 months, after which hardly ever… It’d be a waste of money..
Besides, one can always make a planned trip, and download the roads and maps between start and finish of your trip.

So for me,3G isn’t really necessary.

Battery is! I’d prefer it to have 8 hours of battery, but probably will be lucky if I’d be able to find a device with a 5 or 6 hours charge.

I’ve found the minimum resolution I’d be willing to have on a 9″ screen would be 720p. enough to watch 720p HD movies, should I ever want to watch it.

Of course, the CPU & VPU processors should be powerful enough to decode 720p H264 movies.

I think the everun note is a bit too small for my likings. I think a 9″ screen will offer more typing and viewing comfort.