Comments on: Redfly announces a sub-sub-notebook to be shown at CES

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:13:23 +0000

Gads that thing is fugly!
I own several UMPC’s so, while I recognize that none of them are sexy, that 2 tone colour scheme that got going there only amplifies what is not nice looking about little laptops. Custom windows on it… bah, I’ll keep my Eee. Word to those looking into a UMPC, going off my experience with a 2g, 4g, 8g, and a Cloudbook, right now, best bang for the buck is the 4g 701, the 8g 702 is nice but the fan runs all the time, very annoying as well as hard on batteries. 2g is little more than a toy or a paper weight, and the Cloudbook is full of hardware that is not linux friendly (and yet it ships with linux)
So for now, I’d say the 4g 701 is the best UMPC going, /shrug, its all what you like, and if your gonna pervert it with MS anyway then the Cloudbook could be a great machine as well.

By: Annonymous

Annonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:20:07 +0000

Redfly should open up a software side of the house. A server app for windows mobile and a display app for a pc.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:16:28 +0000

Very useful for many users out there who only use a PC for email access and WWW such as my brother and sister. It’s been a support headache for me to keep their PCs (which I bought them) up and running when they haven’t been able to learn how to do anything themselves over the last 8 years. Windows is just way too complex for many people who just want to do the simplest things. I’d definitely buy them one of these instead. The customized Linux version for the OS is fine with me. This might even be useful to myself as a secondary road PC when all I need is email and web access (which is most of the time).

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:14:35 +0000

Not as bad an idea as trying to run Vista on a tablet.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:12:16 +0000

Hmmm…Custom OS sounds like a really bad idea.