Is 2008 the year of affordable UMPC?
| I always wanted to buy a Ultra Mobile PC but just couldn’t not justify the pricing, I have good news for computer geeks and gadget freaks, this year is finally going to be the year of affordable UMPC in India, to start for HCL surprised me with the launch of Mileap X for Rs 14,000 and Y series a tablet editon of UMPC starting at Rs 29,990 and ASUS was not far off by launching there Asus Eee PC for 18,000 in India. |  |
The thing to note is that HCL Mileap X (Rs 13,990) and ASUS Eee PC (Rs 18,000) run on Linux but the HCL Mileap Y which is also bundled with Linux costs Rs 29,900 but windows is also supported and if you want it with Vista Home Premium it would cost 33,990. All the three UMPC have a screen size of 7 inch but the Mileap Y supports a decent resolution of 1024*600 with touch screen functionality, on the other hand the Eee and the Mileap X support 880*480 resolution (which according to me is a bit on the low side) all of the above have built in support for Wifi.
The ASUS Eee PC and HCL Mileap Y weight less than 1 kg in weight on the other hand Mileap X weighs 1.44 kg, rumors are rife that ASUS is going to launch in the second quarter of 2008 a second version of its ASUS Eee PC with a larger screen with resolution of 1024*600 and a better processor and would officially have a version supporting windows but I doubt it will be a tablet edition.
| I liked the specs of HCL Mileap Y it’s not just a UMPC but a tablet UMPC with swivel 7 inch touch screen and is less than 1 Kg in weight, it has pretty decent configuration like the latest Intel ultra Mobile processor running at 800Mhz, 1 GB of RAM I liked it so much that I rushed to my hardware vendor to buy the same but he said I will have to wait till the second week of Feb to get my hands on the same. I can only give you the verdict regarding its performance once I get a demo piece to play with coz I just don’t know how Vista will operate on the Intel 800Mhz processor that it uses, but the technical specifications just look great…. hats off to HCL to bringing it to India. |  |
Just last year if you wanted a decent UMPC with tablet features you would have to shell out around 65,000 - 85,000 bucks, now you can get a similar configured UMPC for around 30,000 which indeed is great news, I expect a lot of other vendors to jump on this affordable UMPC bandwagon in 2008.
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