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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I think the title "ultra-cheap ultra-mobile laptops" is fine, but that isn't the title of the wiki page (Ultra-cheap ultra-mobiles matrix). A page on laptops with a $500 (list?) cutoff is a good idea, but it should say laptop in the title.
There are low cost alternatives today that are not laptops (Nokia 770 and 800, perhaps PDAs), but these are all clearly different beasts. UMPCs are sometimes laptops and sometimes not (either way they are clearly laptop-like), but are currently all above $500. Over time, UMPC's will dip below $500, but this is probably too high for "ultra-cheap" in the long term anyway.
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From what I've been following since the introduction of the MS "Origami" vaporware a few years ago, is that an UMPC was a small, slate-style PC that may or may not have a keyboard attached to it that slides out/down, and has a screen larger than a typical PDA (4"), but less than a sub-notebook (10"). So given these specs, any other device that has the moniker UMPC attached to it is just plain brand-spamming. I've seen quite a few TabletPC's that are being marketed as UMPC's, but they still have a keyboard attached that swivels around just like a typical convertable TabletPC; i.e., still a TabletPC.
I do like the acronyms that have turned up here; such as UCPC, UCUMPC, or UCP. Who knows, maybe we're going to be coming up with one of the new buzzwords to describe this new trend? I do hope that they don't come out as PoC's as Wolf describes, otherwise his moniker will stick... "Look, it's an UCUC!"
