UMPCs and Windows Media Center.

This is cool.

Currently XP Media Center doesn’t contain the features of XP Tablet Edition and Tablet Edition obviously doesn’t have the Media Center capabilities.

But when Vista comes, this will change.

Some versions of Windows Vista will include both Tablet PC and Media Center. [ref]

A touch-enabled mobile media center solution is not only going to be very cool, its also going to be pretty much unique amongst operating systems. Neither Apple or Linux can offer that level of out-of-the-box integration yet.

This guy, Stephan Torres, thinks the media center idea is cool too. He’s taken a Founder Mininote (AKA Tablet Kiosk 7200 series) put Vista beta on it and then installed it in his car dashboard. Way to go Stephan.

He’s also had the privilege of having owned a Mininote for 4 months and his comments are positive. He’s happy with the build quality and the power of the device and has a few words to say about other UMPC’s too.

• ultra mobile PC Samsung: No the webcam, not of reader SD, buttons of navigation and short cuts not very practical

• ultra mobile PC Sony (UX90 or 180 according to denominations’): I saw it lately has Taiwan and it appears too much small to to me. The screen is practically illegible with Windows XP. It is necessary to have magnifying glasses in the place of the glasses!!!. In any case I do not like too the closed world of Sony.

Interesting points about the Sony there.

On the negative side, Stephan mentions the static webcam ( I agree, a rotating cam would be a lot better.) the poor speaker volume and lack of cellular data capability.

More pics and translated French over here.

Steve /Chippy.