OQO Price And Release Date Set

captainJam writes "After more than 2 years of development, the OQO is finally set to be released in October for a price tag of $1899. Initially the unit will only be sold through OQO's website. Those grumbling about the price should take into consideration that the OQO is by far the smallest and lightest XP capable handtop with a touchscreen, slide-out keyboard and Transflective display."

Comments

The size is nice, but

[Tibor the Hun]

Too bad it runs XP.

"Hey y'all, check out the 1900 bucks of spyware I gots!"

Re:The size is nice, but

[klausner]

According to this article, an OQO VP says the unit "will run whatever OS would run on a PC, so yeah, Linux should run just fine."

I for one....

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our smallest and lightest overlords yet.

[Sarcasm]Only 1899[/Sarcasm]

[SerpentMage]

[Sarcasm]Gee whiz for only 1899USD you get a unreadable screen, with an underpowered CPU, too small harddisk, and battery life that does not exceed many lightweight notebooks![/Sarcasm]

On a serious note, what I do not understand about these companies, like the Tablet PC companies is that these devices are ideal complementary devices. Price the device at less than 1K and people will buy these devices. Price them near 2K and they will be niche devices that people will look at, comment as interesting, and move on.