UMPCs Are Growing !

Looks like more companies are coming out with these ultra mobile stuff. Latest announcement comes from Everex. But that's not the musings here about. I notice dome trends happening with these new fangled devices.

First and foremost of course is the price. Whatever devices are for sell almost all cost upwards of $300. There's something interesting here. People are ready to pay higher for a smaller and most often less capable device. Popularity of Asus Eee PC is an indicator to that. Also there's this constant push for bigger display real estate that sees 20", 27" or even bigger displays on the desktop and sizes like 17" coming over on laptops, here's device that does with a lot less. Displays on these devices are around 8"diagonal.

Other major thing is that solid state drives are finally here. These SSD devices of useful size is likely to become the sole drive on such notebooks first, looks like.