What’s the most interesting thing going on right now with UMPCs? Running OS X on them.
Several people have tried running OS X on the diminutive PCs, including the OQO which
Engadget is linking to and today showing OS X running. Hmmm. This is getting interesting. Now if OS X would just add some decent handwriting recognition this would be even more interesting….
What have we seen so far? OS X on an Eee PC, Sony Vaio UX, and Mini-Note, Samsung Q1 Ultra, and I think James Kendrick did the same with the Fujitsu P1620.
This all beggs the question: Is OS X a good UMPC OS? So far I haven’t seen anything that says yes, which kind of points out the disparity between the experience in the iPhone and that in a UMPC running OS X. In terms of touch experience, I’d still say the iPhone wins out, Vista on a UMPC is in second place, and a UMPC running OS X trails a distant third.
How much would it take for Apple to catch up in the UMPC space? Or put another way, if Apple decided to go into this space, what might we see? Gets the brain spinning, doesn’t it?
