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Sony updates its UMPC

Sony updates its UMPC

Matt Elliott Senior Editor
Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and San Francisco and now lives in New Hampshire. When he's not writing about laptops, Matt likes to play and watch sports. He loves to play tennis and hates the number of streaming services he has to subscribe to in order to watch the various sports he wants to watch.
Expertise Laptops, desktops, all-in-one PCs, streaming devices, streaming platforms
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Only a few months after its release, Sony's UMPC has received an update. The new UX280P doesn't appear to solve any of the problems we found with the UX180P, namely its high price, poor battery life, and less-than-ideal typing experience. The new model is even pricier at $2,000, and it features the same design and same 1.2GHz Core Solo processor as its predecessor. What has changed, you ask? Only the memory (doubled to 1GB) and the hard drive (up from 30GB to 40GB).

To be fair, the UX180P already packed an impressive amount of features--Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a full version of XP, not one but two Webcams, a QWERTY keyboard, a fingerprint reader, and a 4.5-inch wide-screen display--into a small package. Despite this impressive list, we're not sold on the UMPC concept. What are your thoughts? Would you buy one? Would you use one if your company purchased one for you? Or does this convergence product solve a problem you don't have?

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