InfoWorld, newly online-only, is reporting that Intel is creating a new UMPC platform, McCaslin, to replace its insanely popular older UMPC platform. The new system will run at up to 800MHz and support Windows Vista. The new platform should start dribbling out in the next year. Look for it at the next CeBIT next to the booth selling boob-shaped mice.
Intel expected to launch new UMPC platform [InfoWorld]
“…its insanely popular older UMPC platform…”
I keep waiting for the industry to produce something really great in this form factor. And waiting. And waiting. I think the OQO and the Flipstart are steps in the right direction, but not at $1500-$2000, thanks.
So I wince at your sarcasm, but I smile too, because you are right, sadly.
Kinda makes me think of minidisc, with which I am still imfatuated. If Sony could have gotten out of their own way, the iPod might have been the niche product, and I might be carrying around an RH1 that cost $150 with $10 disks that hold 20Gb. Oh well.
Point is, the conventional PC companies better get something good out the door soon, or we are all gonna end up with iPod redux. This time it will be a phone with a built-in vid projector and projected virtual keyboard. The keyboard is already available, and I read that someone has a proof-of-concept prototype of a projector built into a cell phone. So the UMPC may be dead before it’s really born, a dino replaced by smaller, smarter mammals.
Enough mixed metaphors for ya?
Edit:
Infatuated. I meant to say infatuated. Spelling counts.