Any of you who know Santa will know that he’s a pretty peculiar fellow. Not only does he dress in ridiculous clothes and sport an odd beard and haircut, he also only comes around once a year, and sometimes he just doesn’t bring you what you want!

So this time around we wanted things to be different, we wanted to get what we wanted, and we wanted to get it before Christmas. After all, you never know if he’ll find time to reach you at Christmas with those billions of kids he’s got to see. All of this required us to twist Santa’s hand a bit, and even though he looks old, he’s still pretty strong (probably from carrying all those toys), so it was no mean feat.

But in the end, as with most things in life, if you’re determined enough, you get what you want. And in our case it was a shiny new Kohjinsha tablet PC. Ok, we didn’t get exactly what we wanted, we were hoping for the 811 model with an 800MHZ CPU but we got the 610 with a 600MHZ. He claimed to have given out all of the 811 model to kids he liked better! After some more arm twisting though he did upgrade the ram to 2GB though

How the Kohjinsha looks in Santa’s boardroom.

So why did we go to such lengths to harass the poor old man for this toy? Well we needed to get an extra notebook before traveling the world and we wanted it to be very light. This one weighs less than 1kg. We also wanted it to have a big hard disk. This one has 120gb, lots of ram - we got 2gb in this one. It doesn’t need to be too fast so we can live with the 600mhz cpu. And of course, it comes with all the usual gizmos, wlan, lan, bluetooth, CF/SD/etc card reader, touch screen, rotateable screen to turn it into a tablet PC, etc

Best of all though is the price. Coming close to US$900, it’s hard to find anything similar that costs anything close to that. Sure, there are other UMPC’s, especially linux-based ones, but most have no hard disk and only 2-4gb for storage (in contrast this has 120gb), and the screen resolution of those other ones is usually far worse than this. So while we still have to test this out on the road, so far it looks pretty good!

Oh yeah, Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes to all our readers in this festive season!

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