UMPCs are now offered in a wide variety of sizes, from 4 inch screens to the "standard" 7 inch screens that originally defined the category. I have been asked why I didn’t recommend UMPCs for any of the user profiles I defined and quite frankly this is the reason why. Size and other factors determine if a particular device will work for a given user’s work style and because of the wide variety of forms now available as UMPCs it makes the UMPC designation worthless for recommendations such as in my article. UMPCs are great, but not all of them will work for a given type of user. That said, there’s a very cool graphical comparison guide that shows different UMPCs and how they differ in size. Rodfather has done a magnificent job putting this together and it is highly useful for those who are interested in UMPCs but don’t know how big a given unit might be. You can’t exactly run to the store and compare them yourself, can you? Well done, Rodfather! He is continually adding devices as they appear so mark his site and keep checking.
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