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New PCs shape up for Vista.(Microsoft Windows Vista)
Byline: Clive Akass
New PCs shape up for Vista
Microsoft's new Vista operating system has inspired system builders to come up with a range of innovative hardware designs, Bill Gates claimed in his keynote speech at CES.
A more measured view might be that power-efficient processors have done more to change designs because they no longer require cases looking and sounding like an air-conditioner unit. And Apple's undoubted flair (see opposite) has clearly influenced one design picked out by Bill Gates: the Vaio media centre (pictured right).
But Apple computer design is conservative by the standards of the Windows-driven UMPC. Gates picked out a new Medion UMPC (pictured right), which we are told may come to Europe in a couple of months.
Small Californian firm OQO boasted on its website that Gates would feature its new ultra-mobile -- the O2 -- but the interesting design was granted no more than a brief showing in a video of new releases.
OQO actually had an ultra-mobile out before Microsoft came up with its Origami UMPC software, so maybe Gates regards it as something of a maverick. But unlike the Medion, for which no specs were available, the O2 is available in the US and will be sold in the UK by Expansys (www.expansys.co.uk). US prices start at $1,499 ([pounds ...
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