Great news. Following the Australian reseller, Justek (news) Dynamism have announced that they will be selling the UMID M1 Mbook and that it will be available from the 15th June.
For $599 you get exactly the version we tested. WIndows XP Home + 16GB of SSD. Good value? Yes. The UMID is truly a next-gen UMPC and, along with the Viliv S5, one of the best UMPC choices there is right now. It’s got a very fast web browser (we’re talking 3-4x the rendering speed of an iPhone here with full flash capability!) and a good video playback sub-system. From our review:
We’re impressed with the technology in the UMID Mbook, the processing power, the battery life, the screen and the fast SSD. We’re not impressed with the fiddly micro-SD slot, headphone and USB ports though and these, we’re sure, will be major issues for a lot of people. Build quality could also be better. Despite these issues, the UMID is a device that you keep going back to and keep wanting to take with you, even if you don’t have any ‘computing’ activities planned. It’s a very flexible, and fast, pocket companion. One might say, a pocket microblogging rocket!
Our full review of the UMID Mbook M1 is here.
Full product details including videos and links to other UMID news items on the ´net
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May 25th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Its a nice MID for sure, the design is great and theres a nice choice of colors.
But the cheap canny mono speaker, lack of 3.5mm audio jack and a lack of even a single USB port, breaks down the total value alot. Those extra 10 grams would have made the difference of me buying the UMID Mbook instead of an E-king i1.
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May 25th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Agreed. I saw that triangular shaped adapter that housed the audio and USB port and was instantly turned off. Still sort of considering the Viliv S5, if dynamism offers it with an SSD I’m there.
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May 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
100% agree with sokonomi. imagine my shock and horror after reading how they brutalised the western version of the UMID.
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Dynamism are sold out of their first batch, second batch due in mid June.
Justek have stock now, and if you head over to the Pocketables forum you can get a free worldwide shipping code.
Price for the 16GB 1.3GHz Linux one is $659 which is more than Dynamism, especially as you’d need your own XP, but with the free shipping, it makes it cheapest way to get one into Europe (and they are giving a free Bluetooth mouse and 8GB Micro SD card) and you’ll get it sooner.
Remember to change to US dollars and switch GST off to see this price!
http://www.justek.com.au/shop/product_info.php/products_id/452
Dynamism’s shipping to UK will be about $75
(I’m nothing to do with Justek, other than I just bought a UMID off them. Dynamism are great too, I got my Viliv from them.)
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May 26th, 2009 at 5:41 am
No, First batch is not sold out. It is just delayed.
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July 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
hey I saw a apply mighty mouse installed on a netbook.
Would this be able to be installed on a UMID by chance?
back of the screen, or top of keyboard?
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