Should I buy a UMPC or a laptop?

Question

Im trying to figure out if I should but a UMPC or a regular laptop

but I dont know that much about UMPC's

What should i look for

Will they put my home pc internet on it

How much is a reasonable cost and is it worth it?

Answer 1

It all depends on what you want .

It has some advantages and disadvantages compared to a standard laptop.

It is smaller and lighter.

Has touchscreen

It is slower than a laptop usually between 700mhz and 1.3 ghz

Has no cd or dvd drives due to its size so to install any other programs you have to get an external drive.

Battery life isn't as good

Prices are usually between $1000.00 and $2500.00

You can get them with a preinstalled broadband connection to be activated from your cell phone company.

As far as it being worth it i would say if you can use a laptop It would be better and cheaper for most applications .

If you need a smaller device but still need to be able to run a standard operating system like windows vista or xp go with the umpc.