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Old 06-08-2008, 09:09 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Morning all,

I recently came across these folks more specifically I saw their stand at the motorshow, saw them listed and though "hmm could be interesting" so I hunted them down, and found their (tiny) stand.

Two young blokes in control, so I started to quiz them about their product... they knew nothing! they couldn't even tell me what was in the box they provided (specs). "its just a full spec pc in a small box"... "so its a micro atx motherboard in there then?" "a what?"

I went to suggest that perhaps the atom would be a good candidate for their product, again the answer was "a what"?

At this point I thought "god they know less about computers than my gran does", and they clearly aren't passionate about their product so I began to challenge them to see what they would say.

Having told me that the unit cost £1300! asked them what the point of having one was when you can't use it whilst your travelling, its dangerous, so you may aswell spend £150 on a umpc which you could use off the 12v socket when stopped... "well it has sat nav, MP3 and bluetooth", yes! so does my Garmin and it cost £120 (£270 total now)... "oh oh, err you can watch DVDs", to which my response was £100 (£370ish total for everything that the in car pc does) for an in car set from Argos... silence (except for my friend next to me who by this point was in hysterics).

they really didn't defend it very well!

Anyone else check out their stand?

I really can't see the point in the system at that price, and it must be one hell of a battery drain...

opinions?
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