OQO drops price $200- too little too late?
It seems that OQO disappeared from the news since the rival product UMPCs started shipping and I was wondering when we would hear anything from them. I guess they are feeling the heat as they recently announced that they were dropping the price of the OQO by $200 so the 3 different models they offer now start at $1699. This is no doubt due to the pressure that OQO must be feeling from the competition as the UMPCs are still much cheaper than the OQO. The OQO is a nicely designed device but since consumers are complaining about the price of UMPCs like the Samsung Q1 ($1099) the folks at OQO must be reeling.
The new pricing of the OQO models still reflects a huge difference over UMPCs as the OQO that ships with the Tablet OS installed is still $1899.
-jk
The 1GHz Transmeta is a slow processor… A sort of turtle unable to go with Premiere Element 2 (for exemple) because no SSE2 comptible. The soft refuse to go on ! Never change my Samsung Q1 for a Oqooo. And you have two Samsung for the price !
The UX180 is $1649 at Amazon after rebate ($1799-$150 mail in rebate) delivered with free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FTLOR4/sr=8-1/qid=1151471109/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9524740-7865740?ie=UTF8