{"id":1026,"date":"2023-03-06T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2023-03-06T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T00:20:05","slug":"umid-mbook-bz-two-fingers-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"UMID mBook BZ two-fingers on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>Oh UMID mBook BZ, it&#8217;s not easy being the unwanted offspring of a netbook and a MID, is it? Well, it sure isn&#8217;t easy on us either. After spending a bit of time with the hand-sized device, we just don&#8217;t really see how anyone could use the small clamshell for more than a few minutes at a time. But hit the break for some hands-on impressions and a video of the $549 lilliputian laptop and decide for yourself. <br \/>\n%Gallery-82385%<br \/>\nAll our reservations aside, the mBook BZ is insanely cute. It&#8217;s no bigger than a small Moleskin notepad, and though it&#8217;s not small enough to quite fit into a pants pocket, you could very well slide it into a jacket pocket. But the frustrations start when you open up the lid. Very much like the first VAIO P Series, but way more uncomfortable. The question is why would you want to do that when you can put a smartphone in there or keep a more comfortable netbook in your bag. This could be why we&#8217;ve never really understood MIDs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh UMID mBook BZ, it&#8217;s not easy being the unwanted offspring of a netbook and a MID, is it? Well, it sure isn&#8217;t easy on us either. After spending a bit of time with the hand-sized device, we just don&#8217;t really see how anyone could use the small clamshell for more than a few minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[836,1248,1260,1261,1249,1262,1263,1264,1265,1266,1267,842,1268,1269,1270,1271,1272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}