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Vulcan’s FlipStart UMPC might have garnered some attention for its diminutive size and handy QWERTY keyboard, but its whopping great price also caught the eye. At its original $1,999 it was considered an eye-watering frippery, while even a $500 price cut left Vulcan still searching for buyers. Now they’ve seemingly set at the sticker price with a scythe, chopping it down to just $699.
It’s hard to believe they’re making much money on the FlipStart at under seven-hundred bucks - either that, or they were royally screwing people who paid either of the two higher prices - and the whole thing has the whiff of desperation about it.
Nonetheless, it suddenly becomes a far more realistic proposal as a “companion PC”, which is how UMPC devices were originally marketed.
To me it is not surprising as they had the form factor all wrong since they choose to use a thumb input for a full blown desktop pc, not a smart move. If they made it longer thinner to provide a true touch type keyboard then it would be worth the money.