The OQO Butterflies

Now as I wait I am a little anxious. I bought the OQO on impulse and am not sure if I regret it yet. Will the device work well for my needs? Is it going to be powerful enough to run all my applications? I guess I will have to wait and see.

OQO, Thy Come to Me

Okay I have now contradicted myself. I bit the gun, or dust, or however that phrase goes and bought myself an OQO. It was such a low price for a used one that I could just not pass it off. I got the unit for $850 and a whole bunch of accessories for $200 totalling of $1050 including shipping.

The unit itself has paint chipped paint on the battery and a fixed WWAN antenna so it’s not perfectly straight. The cosmetics don’t bother me as long as it works. I also got a mesh cable bag, belt clip case, double capacity battery, Wacom cross pen, and a stand from the site BuildYourUMPC.com.

I’m taking a risk by buying from a forum member but I’ll take that chance.

Now I know that I said UMPC’s are not right for me as they are overpriced and slow but I would really like something that is portable and can run all the necessary applications. It would have to be able o be a PMP to and I figure I would have but something like that after I purchased my tablet. Also I have funds coming in that would allow me to purchase both. And as I said before, this was a steal and I just couldn’t let this deal go by.

Trip At Best Buy

While at Best Buy the other day I saw HP’s new TX2000x “consumer laptop.” It is basically a convertible tablet at a consumer price level where (I assume) that tablet functionality is not as important.

Some of the tablet features are a lightscribe DVD drive, dual touch screen, and the latest wireless N. I really like it, though it does seem a bit heavy. With the screen you can use your finger to navigate and when you need to ink with the stylus, the pen turns the touch part of the screen off and you can write without vectoring.

It seems to pack all the features of a laptop with the tablet functionality in a 12” form factor for $1200. This seems to be a really good choice and I’m definitely going to look into this specific model.

Farewell N95

I have bid farewell to my faithful Nokia N95 8GB. The N95 had been my phone for the better part of a month serving as a video/mp3 player, portable internet device as well as my phone.

I have no particular reason to sell the phone except for my pursuit for more money. Buying and selling phones adds to the savings and I get to try them all out. I shall see what interesting tech I fondle next.

UMPC Choices Pt.5

After going through all the possibilities I could pick for a UMPC I have finally decided on… none of them.

The UMPC’s available on the market are expensive with costs ranging around the $1000 mark for something decent. I normally wouldn’t mind paying that much for a cool device but with my purchase I need it to do everything my laptop does and more. I need something that I can use for school as well as entertainment.

I will be taking a look into tablet PC’s as they seem to fit my needs. It will give me a single place for all my work and notes as well as giving the necessary power to play games, watch movies, and take notes for school.

I would like to say that I have high hopes for the UMPC market but I am afraid that will not be the case. UMPC’s never caught on even though they had a lot of potential, I believe it was the lack of marketing effort but who am I to judge, I am just a consumer.