“Is that a computer?”

That has to be the one I get most often. My only problem then is explaining the UMPC to them without a) scaring the person or b) going too technical in my explaination.

That’s the same for me. I recently had the chance to use my UMPC (a Q1 Ceego) for my business meetings and presentations. I had the impression that - as a UMPC user - you are often perceived as a sort of technology geek or - even worse - a “freak”. most of the impressions that i had received during the last few months included things such as mouths standing wide open, people asking questions such as “what the hell is this?” to positive reactions saying “whow. that’s a smart presentation tool”.
i think, that the advertising for this new device category was too lame and therefore couldn’t illustrate and attract an UMPC’s full potential to potential customers.

However I got good feedback from my customers, it seems to be that it is at “first sight” too techy and not self-exploring enough for the average customer (i.e. people who usually buy notebooks)

In my case the Q1 - because i only need it for ppt-presentations, quick concept sketches, mail and netaccess - does a quite good job and won’t be substituted by a laptop because it has all the functionality that is needed to give a presentation and write notes or draw quicksketches about further steps of a project afterwards or during a presentation. therefore there won’t be the need for another mobile device for me. i hope that the UMPC idea will bring up more interesting product concepts that will make it to storeshelves soon. The concept is simply too good to be forgotten.