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February 13, 2008
Those with teeny weeny fingers, say "Kohjinsha"
I'm on hols in K.L. and of course, one has to look at gadgets. The gadget and PC scene does not seem as vigorous and bubbly as it was a couple of years ago. Could be the economy or could be early days for Chinese New Year.
Charles was quite enamoured by the milestone ASUS EEE PC. Inexpensive for an A5 type machine (compare that to similar offerings from the name brands like Sony, Fujitsu) and quick enough to run (unless you have the AnandaSim syndrome - typified by bogging down a machine within a day with all kinds of apps).
I saw a current model Twinhead PC of similar size - I have had a Twinhead before in the days of the monochrome LCD - it was a 386slc and I was pushing it to run Windows 3.1 (it was better as a DOS PC). My main gripe then was that teeny weeny trackball didn't work all that well after day one. Looking back, if we didn't move to colour (uh, you don't remember screens before colour? ) this would still be a good DOS machine.
Anyway the current model Twinhead looks thicker and much less pretty. It does have a hard disk instead of flash storage. I haven't seen it run.
But the surprise for me is the 7" Tablet PC Kohjinsha UMPCs that run Windows XP or Windows Vista. Priced in KL between 2299 and 2999 MYR (roughly divide by 2.9 to convert to AUD). Manufactured in Singapore by Kohjinsha. Double the price of the ASUS EEE but the touch panel would have cost a bit to add on and still not in the heady price range of similar VAIO.
Hmmmm. Charles?
Posted by Anandasim at February 13, 2008 12:45 PM
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