Cuol Book, the nettop that runs Windows CE

As weak as the knees as I am for little QWERTY-sporting mini-laptops, the Cuol Book has its obvious drawbacks. It's as big as a netbook, but is limited to Windows CE: this sort of platform already exists in more compact form as the NEC MobilePro 900, which is a great instant-on handheld PC with a nearly full-sized keyboard.

Moreover, Cuol lacks the touchscreen that used to come on those old things, but doesn't have a trackpad or trackteat either: you must use a mouse! The display is 7" across and it weighs a lithe 1.5 pounds.

However, Cuol is both more technically advanced that the best of the old HPCs (it has a gig of storage, 512MB of RAM and two USB ports) and is extremely cheap, at $300. This will make it an interesting alternative to the lowest-end Eee PCs for those who want only the very basics, but want them "instant-on."

Cuol Notebook... [Lilliputing via Ubergizmo]

[#1 posted by strider_mt2k , September 24, 2008 8:08 AM]

Many GPS units run a stripped down version of WinCE.
(My Mio C230 runs 5.0 Core.)

As a result, various unlock packages leverage the freeware and shareware written for WinCE to give even modest GPS units some very cool features they didn't originally have.

That being said I'm eagerly awaiting my Inspiron Mini 9!