A great podcast (oops, even if I do say so myself!) covering the MID, ultra mobile PC and Netbook news from CES. A good roundup covering a lot of devices. Our raw show notes below…
- Pegatron Netbook – Freescale. 8
- VIA Nano. Dr Mobile. 11.6″ and 8.9″
- Vaio P
- OQO 2+
- Dell Mini 10. Silverthorne. Edge-to-edge. 1.2kilos
- 1000 HDN Optical drive. Bluray. New CPU, new Chipset. Video-focused.
- ASUS Eee PC T91 T101H Convertible.
- HP 2140
- Viliv S7, X70
- UMID
- MIO ‘MID’. ARM.
- BYD Venus MID on the Intel stand. No details.
- Aigo windows 7 + XP. Velocity. Maybe upgraded.
- MSI U115
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I gather you didn’t do this one live? I missed it if you did… anyway, carry on, it’s fun to follow stuff with you guys! Still waiting on Sascha to finally reveal everything about the VIA Nano.
Are there any unboxings or live sessions with new hardware coming up?
I love the the new convertibles / tablets and think it would be the future with the new multi-touch.
woops forgot to mention.. via nano!
JKK,
You sure you have an SSD that will fit/work with the OQO?
Note this from Adam Gould (“adamg”)
“Our chipset supports PATA only. We have not seen any manufacturers offering a 1.8†PATA SSD with capacity higher than 64 GB and certainly there are no 64GB PATA SSDs with a price point of $150. If anyone sees anything to the contrary, please let me know and I will certainly pass it along to our purchasing group. There are multiple manufacturers making 128 GB 1.8†SATA, but again, we cannot use SATA drives in the OQO due to size limitations.”
From around the middle of this thread;
http://www.oqotalk.com/index.php/topic,3374.75.html
EC, sure I’m sure:
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/01/runcore-18-inch-ssd-on-hp-mini-1000.html
It’s 1.8 inch zif pata…
OK it seems Adam updated his post:
“EDIT
Sorry for the mistake. the 2+ can take an 8mm form factor 1.8” drive.
« Last Edit: January 14, 2009, 07:36:40 PM by adamg »
From have stated before that:
I don’t believe anything other then the 5mm form factor will work. 3mm might as well be a kilometer in the OQO…
I just recall being down this road before when it came to OQO drives including contacting Toshiba at the time about larger drives.
But wait a minute even at 5mm space req their 64GB would still fit!?
“Low cost 1.8†Zif/PATA SSD solution in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB (5mm) and a special 128GB (8mm).”
http://www.runcore.com/newsshow.asp?ID=194
Call the show : (The) Three Stooges Mobile ! ;)
or:
No Wires Allowed
Not Your Avarage Desktop
Sofables
Size Does Matter
Vegetables On Trees*
.. some quick thoughts to keep the progress going.
The OQO car holder (GPS package)
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3404/gpsbundle2plgoa5.jpg
Then there is also the third party holder by Swedish “BRODIT” that can easily teamed up with any generic holder or the very nice car specific holder from Brodit themselves (look around on their site!), see next post for LINKS:
Brodit Passive OQO 02/2+ holder:
http://www.brodit.com/?main=productinformation.jsp&anr=848744
Brodit Active OQO 02/2+ holder:
http://www.brodit.com/?main=productinformation.jsp&anr=844744
VIA NANO!? :)
CTL 2go, new on the database as Brad from Liliputing added it. Worth mentioning as well. It is being the first convertible under 500$, already sold, and might be stronger than the T91 (its Asus equivalent).
sony P … let’s call it a “fashionbook”
Like it. LOL
in addition to tal’s remark: fitting the ctl 2go with a 64/128 gb ssd would make a nice outdoor book. as a field researcher i would like one.
So does £300.00 or $440 or so change your mind about the Sony VAIO P???
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001PO5UH8/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
It could really become tempting if it starts to compete with the Netbooks like that in price!!!
i’d just say … OOOOPPPPPsss. hardly launched and already cut in half. What’s going on? change vista against ubuntu or puppy linux and it might have a go
I just remembered that I believe it was one of the Sony reps at the Sony booth at CES who was specifically assigned to the Vaio P who indicated that “No XP, ONLY Vista” and claimed there will not be any XP support or even possibility to run XP, just remembered this not sure how valid that statment is?
VIA Nano! LOL
sony vaio p on amazon …. no prize visible anymore …
Definitely VIA Nano!
I’m skeptical about the Pegatron’s claims of 8 hour battery life with a low-capacity 3-cell battery. Even with the reduced power requirements of the ARM SoC, we all know the main source of power drain in an Atom-based netbook will be the screen and the 3G and/or WiFi radio.
I think JKK made an important point that if he used his ARM-based netbook with the radio on, presumably accessing the net and watching videos, the battery life isn’t particularly great either.
My ARM-based phone could last several days on standby but if I use it continuously in “MID-mode”, watching videos, checking emails and surfing the internet, it will die in a matter of hours.
Thanks guys nice to hear the latest, who’s gonna get a viao-p first ?
vianano !
via nano!