Realistic? You’re insinuating they might not be able to make an attachable keyboard and a bigger battery. Realistic would be questioning how well the WM/XP integration will work. Questioning their ability to make a keyboard or plug in a bigger battery is not.

I saw both the extended battery and the keyboard at CES in January and while both looked pretty sweet they were very prototype devices and I didn’t see anyone actually demonstrate using them.

Sumocat, you are correct that DualCor seems to be going after the enterprise and government market but let’s be realistic. They first shot to public awareness by demonstrating and issuing their initial press release at the CES. Consumers have a right to an expectation that if a company demonstrates its wares at a Consumer Electronics Show that they intend to excite end-users, not enterprises. They seem to have changed their tune many times over the past 7 months.

I knew I read somewhere something about an extended battery and attachable keyboard.
http://www.dlmag.com/753/dualcor-handtop-cpc-revisited.html?page=2

Actually, I think I first read about the keyboard here:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/01/first_allinone_.html

Did I miss something or have we all forgotten that DualCor is in fact targeting a specific audience? They’re aiming at *segments* of the enterprise and government markets, not commercial or consumer. They’re not even selling to consumers except through resellers. C’mon Kevin.

I agree with you Kevin. The DualCor cPC is really for a small market share. I think of my uses of my converged pocket pc and I only like it because it:

1) has a VERY long battery life. I’ve gone 2 days without a charge; my wife’s Treo gives her about 3 days before charging.

2) it provides about 70-80% of the functionality of my Tablet PC.

However, wireless connectivity (even if it is slow) is better than nothing or an add-on. The other thing is that many people today are looking at things that are physically pleasing to the eye (i.e. eye-candy). IMO the DualCor cPC isn’t very pretty when compared to the Q1!

Frank, all Windows Mobile devices have “instant on” since they’re never actually turned off. If the XP side were “instant on”, that might help, provided you don’t need any native connectivity, that is!

But… In another hand in agree with what WhatisNew said in one of their last article. Anything that enter in the category of Small Form Factor Device is welcome because that will help the UMPC and Tablet PC community too.

The main reason why somebody would like to have the DualCor cPC is called “instant on” when using CE

In the rest I’m agree with what you are saying. Too expensive and too late.

I’ve been waiting to hear your thoughts on this. I can’t say I’m surprised at anything you state.