Comments on: Asus R2H hits U.S. in October for $999: who’s buying?

By: Carsten

Carsten — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:29:27 +0000

I was waiting for such a device for years. I got the Zaurus, but it didn’t work out, then went back to Palm (Tungsten) but that didn’t work out either. It all comes to that it should be a full PC, but small, very small.

The only additional features I would wish for is longer battery life, a builtin EGDE/GPRS modem and a pullout keyboard like SONY has – but it costs you. Esp. since it works only with Verizon but T-Mobile is so much cheaper.

$999 for 60GB and 768M Ram is very reasonable. I was going to pre-order one but then found only two places to order it and none specify a price. Only one lets you choose the hard-drive size (20/30/40/60) but also gives no price.

Since it looks that the memory is configurable and the hard-drive size I would like to wait until I can order the device exactly as I like it. However, *if* the device is really that good then I fear there will be a run like for the first Playstation.

Bottom line, I’ll wait just a tad longer to see my options.

By: JR

JR — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:28:30 +0000

I’m still waiting for the cool UMPC that was shown in the official video (the one with the swivel keyboard). I know that some consider the keyboard unnecessary but I want to use visual studio 2005 on the one I get so for coding I consider a keyboard essential (as long as it’s reasonably usable). Also the swivel keyboard screams “Origami” in my opinion.

I will admit though that the Asus is the right way to go if you’re not obsessed with having a small keyboard attached (as I am. I can’t stand the thought of having to carry round a separate device or continuously getting grubby finger prints on the screen with a virtual keyboard.). If I knew I wouldn’t find a lack of keyboard so frustrating I would reaching for my credit card now ;-)

By: schmack

schmack — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:14:06 +0000

I was waiting for the R2H. While the specs are a bit underwhelming, I can’t help but think that $999 is cheap considering what I would pay just for a stand alone GPS for the car. The rest is just gravy. Looks like my wait is over :)

By: larken

larken — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:36:12 +0000

Seems like this will finally be a UMPC worthy of its price. I’m still waiting till Dell enters the market.

By: David Jones

David Jones — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:06:15 +0000

What will make a UMPC most compelling for me is Vista included, I hate having to add an OS to a device, especially when the Vista launch is so near. However, I’m running RC1 and loving it, so maybe, just maybe, I’ll take the plunge a bit early. But to answer your question, yep…this is the device I was wating for.

By: Asus Wifi

Asus Wifi — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:38:11 +0000