An Australian Ultra Mobile PC review

ROAM Magazine with UMPC on cover

Adam Turner has done a great job of reviewing the eo Ultra Mobile PC in this month’s issue of ROAM Magazine. On this occasion his distaste for the product is shortly overshadowed by shades of hope for the form factor. “Not good for business” and “clunky too;” with comments like this it’s not hard to see why UMPC is having a slow uptake.

My understanding is that most regular Tablet PC’s, with Wacom styled active digitizer boards embedded, are more than twice the price of UMPC. With NOT more than twice the functionality I think the UMPC form factor uptake will gain steam and motivate more users to buy it as a 2nd, 3rd or 4th PC. All we need to explain is the functionality vs the inabilities and users will soon look past the limitations and find a happy place for UMPC, wherever that may be. Perhaps as a portable Camera mate!

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Another Sahara review with me in it

Jon Harsem has posted a review of the Sahara Slate PC. While he meanders through these thoughts, on the Sahara Slate, we are taken through a journey of both pleasure and pain. One interesting paragraph I note is his reference to me, Hugo Ortega; it seems that my passion for all things Tablet PC is getting contagious…

Jon is an ace cartoonist on a Tablet (this picture all done via Tablet PC - WOW!)

More Art by Jon

Heres a sniping:

The Hugo Effect

Perhaps these Tegatech distributed slates have another thing going for it - I shall dub it "The Hugo Effect". Hugo Ortega is the one man marketing/tech/sales/general action man-machine behind the TabletKiosk/Sahara Tablet PC in Australia and hes pretty much on fire. You cannot be in his company for more then 10 minutes and not get enthused about the Tablet PC platform.

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