Hands-on with ASUS and Founder UMPCs

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jfb3 @ Mar 9th 2006 3:59PM

I think everyone is missing who is the real target are for these devices:
Corporate Middle Management

It's a corporate meeting machine.

It's small enough to carry from meeting to meeting (nobody wants to lug a laptop around, even a Vaio).

It can run Outlook (welcome to the corporation!).

It has a screen large enough so that all these 45 year old guys with Presbyopia can still read their email.

It can run Excel (corporate!).

It runs Windows. This means the corporate IT staff already has business processes in place to handle licensing, help desk, upgrades, patches, etc. (This is important in the corp.)

The corporate managers for whom I consult would trade a junior minion for one of these gadgets.

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