This! This! Want! Want!!!



The Group Mobile SwitchBack Rugged Ultra Mobile PC, to be released in Summer '07.



This is what I want. It accepts power from 9V to 28V - i.e., can be basically plugged into my car battery. It has built-in wireless, GPS and Bluetooth. It can be dropped, sprayed, and generally abused. It is sunlight viewable and the screen is 1024x600 - which means you can surf the 'net properly. It has between 512MB and 1 GB memory (which isn't spectacular but is enough to run basically anything short of video editing or something like that). It has a big, removeable Hard Drive, and 32 GB of solid state hard drive. And a 1GHz Celeron processor (again, not amazing but perfectly serviceable).



It will fit easily in my car - 7.5" x 5.5".  Oh, there's so much cool stuff about this computer I don't know where to stop, so I'll stop now. I just hope it comes down below like $1500 before too long...









Joygasm!