The screenshot shows it - I am building a test environment for moblin. Intel announced the project and I cannot help but follow the allure of a balance between my beloved Nokia Internet Tablets and my UMPCs.
The Q1U looks impressive, but it seemed to spend some time choking on Vista especially during video playback. If UMPC makers are going for the consumer vertical, they need to incorporate entertainment into the equation else be relegated to the enterprise-only vertical. In non-marketing speak - business users may love the Q1U in the current form, but a low-overhead OS would be better suited for the task.
Enter Linux. There are so many things I can do on my Nokia Internet Tablet because the embedded Linux architecture takes such low overhead. If the moblin team is as good at code and as driven as the maemo team, UMPCs are due for a revolution. We shall see.
In the meantime, I'm still finding Intel's PR team to be an impossible nut to crack. Since I'm not Mossberg or Pogue, I may continue to have this difficulty. It will slow down some of the announcements through this blog, but I will stay close with the developers I meet online and hopefully get writing heavily on this upcoming platform.
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