iPad Mini - UMPC Dream Come True, Best True Mobile Computer
Do you remember what the UMPC is? It's the ultra-mobile PC from 2000s before the iPad was released by Apple. The UMPC was a light weight PC that ran mostly Windows and had a battery life of 5 hours. Real world use was obvious very disappointing as the class of PC did not live up to its aspirations. When it was first introduced, along with a few upbeat commercials that claim we have finally be delivered to the mobile promise land, I was very skeptical. I owned both Windows laptops and Powerbooks from Apple through college and I know what power and battery life was like in real life. Luckily at the time, the time I needed to tax my computers was when I was playing games. Excel work and plotting graphs were easy enough for the computers to handle with data from lab work. When I did have to do photo editing, I did it on the Powerbook if I had to but I had access to the PowerMacs of the time in the late 90s. Through the 2000s, processin...