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Eee PC News has a great story this weekend showing the vast cavalcade of VIA C7-M based Mini-notes and UMPCs that were presented in Computex a few weeks back. The post is in German, but the best part of it are the photographs which speak for themselves.

And what thousand words are these photos whispering in my shell-like ear? Well, first of all that there are a LOT of vendors I have never heard of (take for example Ngai Lik. When was the last time you sat down to work on your Ngai Lik? What about CZC? Sounds like an airport abbreviation somewhere in the former Soviet Union. iDOT? TongFang?). Secondly, considering how these devices all seem to look alike, with pretty much identical specs…there are going to be a lot of Mini-notes from little known Chinese vendors heavily discounted all over the web next January. Hope these suckers are recyclable, as I can’t imagine the market will be able to bear so many nearly identical models.

I would have to imagine most of these are concept devices which may never see the light of production, but there are some interesting devices on display, such as the Everex Cloudbook Max (clearly based on the new OpenBook design as it lists as WiMax ready). It certainly does show the sheer number of companies that are working overtime to enter the Mini-note/UMPC market. Next big thing, or passing fad?

Check out all the pictures HERE.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).