The UBiQUiO 701 UMPC – It’s Everywhere!

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Well, not really. At $1,000 for a moderately equipped and somewhat oddly configured UMPC, it’s likely not to be in many places at all. Odd spelling aside, the marketing folks have gone a little crazy here, I think.

Still, it’s a decent enough little device, with a 1GHz Via processor, 802.11g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, 512MB RAM, and a 40GB HDD. No keyboard, of course, as is the wont with the typical UMPC. USB ports bracket the somewhat clunky looking system, whose 7-inch screen with 800X480 resolution is pretty mainstream. It’s also relatively slow, and it doesn’t seem to use Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, rather bundling its own handwriting recognition on standard Windows XP.

That’s a huge strike against it. Remember, though, that many UMPC’s push $2,000, and so at half that price the ever-present, er, UBiQUiO 701 may fit the bill for many.