The UMPC

The UMPC is not a new concept. Microsoft and Intel have been pushing one form or another of it for the past few years. However it never seemed to catch on, until late last year when Asus perfected the design with the EEE PC!


Small and portable, but unlike it's predecessors, it has a keyboard! Over the past few months while the Asus EEE has taken the tech world by storm many companies are trying to come on board. The Everex Cloudbook and the HP 2133 Mini Note being the two main competitors to the Asus EEE right now. But by the end of this year I see the laptop market being saturated with these types of machines. Portable, cheap, simple to use, and many times Linux based instead of Windows or OS X.


Going from anywhere starting at $300 up to high grade $800 versions, these machines are revolutionary beyond anything Apple claims to be it's contribution to the world. So many people look at the IPhone, the Mac Airbook, and many other Apple products as revolutionary, but all they are is pretty. None of them have changed the way to use computers, none of them have done anything that hasn't already been done. Asus however is the real revolutionary. They came in to a saturated laptop market and brought out a product that they had no idea would succeed, that they took many chances on, the size, using Linux, and tiny flash based memory, along with open source software. This is a revolution in the way we compute and it is only going to get better!