Gathering of Tweakers

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We've just received these images of HP's rumored UMPC. Honestly, we have no reason to doubt their authenticity. The HP Compaq 2133 "lifestyle accessory" features a big, scratch resistant 8.9-inch 1366 x 766 (WXGA) display, ExpressCard/54 slot, Wireless LAN, nearly full-sized QWERTY (95% of full), integrated webcam, and optional SSD in a 2.5-pound anodized aluminum sex pot running Vista or Linux. Or so say the tipped images. Funny how the once keyboard-less UMPC-class device has now morphed into an Eee PC-like mini. Still, if this is what we can expect from the UMPC crowd come Silverthorne then you can count us in, HP.

Bron: Engadget

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If that new HP Compaq 2133 is hitting your ultraportable sweet spot, there's more news on that front to drool over. UMPC Portal has word from a supposed industry insider that the computer is not running an Intel chip as previously suggested, but instead will rock the range of VIA processors. That means the computer could fight it out with Eee PC in the low-end with a C7 processor, or adopt one of those upcoming Isaiah chips and duke it out with Penryn ultraportables. If this is true it'd be a big win for VIA, and consumers might just get some budget-friendly excitement out of the deal as well.

Bron: engadget

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We'd been hearing that HP's slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now we've got some more info to back that up -- we just received what appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it's VIA C7-Ms all around, with graphics courtesy of a VIA Chrome 9 chipset. According to our source, these will hit on April 7th, and it looks like those pricing whispers were pretty accurate as well: $600 will buy you a 1.2GHz C7-M, a 120GB drive, 1GB of RAM and Vista Home Basic, while $749 bumps you up to 1.6GHz and Vista Business and adds Bluetooth, another gig of RAM, and a bigger battery. There's also a mysterious $849 Vista Basic model listed as having "regional" availability (the others are listed as "Smart Buy") with Bluetooth and bigger battery, but we don't see why it's more expensive than the Vista Business version. Regardless, what really caught our eye was the $549 model that shares the same specs as the $600 unit, but looks to be running SuSE Enterprise -- another rumor that's come true. That could be the one that HP expects to sell like hotcakes -- after all, the goal is to have people buy these "without a thought," and that's certainly not going to happen at $749. We'll see soon enough, we suppose. Full spec sheet after the break.

Tomino wijzigde dit bericht 08-04-2008 18:03 (22%)

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De prestaties van VIA's jongste zouden er volgens insiders niet om liegen: de chip zou gemiddeld meer dan tweemaal zo snel zijn als de Esther-core die nu als 'C7' wordt verkocht.

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HP komt mogelijk in april met een umpc voor zakelijke gebruikers op de markt. De kleine notebook zou zijn uitgerust met een 45nm Penryn-cpu en een 8,9"-scherm.

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Isaiah is pin-compatible with existing C7 processors, and VIA is promising two to four times the performance of C7 while staying within the same power and thermal envelope. The company also says that Isaiah will sell for about the same price as existing C7 parts

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s0k schreef op donderdag 21 februari 2008 @ 13:19:
295*0.95=zo goed als de breedte voor de 2133=280.25mm

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Reinman schreef op vrijdag 22 februari 2008 @ 16:37:
Waar wil je de boxen nog hebben dan?

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younes0807 schreef op vrijdag 22 februari 2008 @ 15:25:
Als dat ding serieus 28 cm breed is dan hoeft het voor mij niet, ik vind dat echt huge, mijn laptop 13,3 inch is al 31.5 cm breed, en 10x beter
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davidgilmour schreef op vrijdag 22 februari 2008 @ 23:55:
Die boxjes kunnen makkelijk in een balkje boven het scherm waar de webcam nu zit. 28 cm is wel veel, maar komt in de buurt van de afmetingen van de PowerBook 12 inch (27,7 x 21,8 x 3,0 cm , 2,1 kg)

En de PowerBook is wel een erg handzaam formaat maar wel met een 12 inch 4:3 scherm. Dit heeft een 9 inch 16:9 scherm. De EEE PC is overigens 22.5×16.5× max.3.5cm, 900 gram.

Als ze de boxen slimmer hadden ingedeeld zou de HP op 24 centimeter uitkomen.

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HP so confident in the UMPC 2133 it's building 2m units?

HP apparently wasn't kidding when it said it expected people to buy that hot new UMPC 2133 sub-notebook "without a thought": DigiTimes is now reporting that the company has contracted Wistron to crank out two million units this year. That's an astonishingly high number -- almost 10 percent of HP's worldwide laptop sales last year -- and even wilder compared to the EeePC, which completely blew away expectations by selling 350,000 units worldwide last quarter, or Samsung's Q1, which has only moved a couple hundred thousand in two years on the market. Sure, the 2133 looks sexy as hell, but at a rumored $630, HP's going to have to put some serious sales muscle behind this guy to move that many -- it's just slightly too expensive to be an accessory, and probably way too underpowered to be your primary machine. On the other hand, while this is just a rumor and could be totally wrong, we'd actually like to think HP has a product so good it's going to roll the dice a little. Guess we'll find out soon enough, eh?

Borromini wijzigde dit bericht 04-03-2008 15:43 (9%)