Talk to me when these things are $500 which is about what they're worth. Pfft, almost a grand or more after taxes. Are they TRYING to make sure people don't buy UMPC,s or are they just stupid? Sure geeks and early adoptors might fork over for them but for someone like me, if I'm going to spend a grand then I'll just spend the extra few hundred and get a laptop. My guess is that they know that a $500 UMPC would kill the palm market, I mean why spen 4 or 500 on a crappy 4 gig Lifedrive when I can carry a whole XP PC? Call me crazy but I think that they're pricing these things right out of the market before they even get going.
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Steve @ Apr 4th 2006 12:42PM
Talk to me when these things are $500 which is about what they're worth. Pfft, almost a grand or more after taxes. Are they TRYING to make sure people don't buy UMPC,s or are they just stupid? Sure geeks and early adoptors might fork over for them but for someone like me, if I'm going to spend a grand then I'll just spend the extra few hundred and get a laptop. My guess is that they know that a $500 UMPC would kill the palm market, I mean why spen 4 or 500 on a crappy 4 gig Lifedrive when I can carry a whole XP PC? Call me crazy but I think that they're pricing these things right out of the market before they even get going.