Thread: Sony UX490 UMPC with four different operating systems

The first real effort on the really small laptops made in the early 2000s, when Intel launched the UMPC form factor. These small handheld devices never received a foothold in the market with high prices and poorly optimized hardware, but now has a user at Micro PC Talk given new life in a Sony UX490 UMPC, as in the word of truth is actually not ashamed of itself when it launched in 2007, but now not only will the update, and overclocked, but also with hardware support for four operating systems.

Mini-computer has had its 1.2GHz Core 2 Solo U2200 CPU replaced by a much quicker 1.33GHz Core 2 Duo U7700 CPU, which on top of all of to 1.438 GHz. Worth declaring is that the Core 2 Solo CPU loaded sat on the motherboard before the change was made. The regular 48GB SSD drive has also been replaced with a quicker RunCore Pro IV 128GB SSD, which had to share space with a HSPA modem along with an 802.11g WiFi chip. The latter is necessary, among other things, a adjustment of the computer's heat sink with some additional exciting changes.

The finished computer can now make use of four different operating systems, Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS X. Sony UX490 UMPC In other words, is well into the future, without any help from the manufacturer itself.