Yesterday I bookmarked Yahoo Tech for when I had some time to watch their tour and compare to CNET for product reviews.

Typicall Yahoo ad crap
Yahoo should add their exclamation point after the word ads next to their name. First view shown above was a gigantic ad that was replaced about 5 seconds or so later. They’ve done studies that indicate people don’t stay at a new site that long or return if the first thing they see is ads. Fortunately the big ad goes away if you do stay but this makes me wonder how long Yahoo is going to continue down this path. How many bad first impressions can they have?

Touring play controls hell
The tour video is a lesson in frustration. The show controls for the tour kept retracting when I wanted it to expand when hovering over. Tip: put the mouse over the control you want to use and don’t move. It will stay in the up position and then you can pause, stop, rewind and play. If you hover just under any of the controls you can play a game of chicken with the controls. Unintentionally, I’m sure.

The search is over
Currently the hot gadget on my radar is the UMPC aka Origami. When I heard these devices would be in the $600-$1000 range I was excited but a couple months have gone by with teasing everywhere and very little concrete news on in retail store delivery dates. Seems like the very first UMPC to hit any store — online or offline — will be the Samsung Q. It will weigh in outside the promised price range at just under $1,100 not including tax. I’m not likely to pay that much for a device that isn’t Vista compatible, so that is the big question on my mind for these devices: are they Vista compatible? If not, then might as well wait a year to buy and get one that is, just like the next generation Tablet PCs. [see Don’t buy a new tablet pc, buy an older model instead or keep waiting]

Even though I’m not in active shopping mode, the most likely next gadget above $500 USD will be a UMPC. I’d be willing to spend $1,000 if the device was Vista certified. That’s better than the $2,500 I paid for my M1400.

So I conducted several searches at Yahoo Tech for these Ultra Mobile Personal Computers (UMPC) and each of my four searches returned no results: umpc, origami, tabletkiosk eo, samsung q. No results was the kicker for me. Stop.

Compared to CNET
Will have to return to Yahoo Tech when they get some more content. Perhaps unfair since I only searched for one gadget, but based on that for me it’s definitely no CNET killer. I conducted a search for UMPC at CNET and had three results, including a good review of the Samsung Q posted yesterday.

Any readers give Yahoo tech a try yet and have better results for gadgets and products currently on your radar?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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