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Sony's stuff is never particularly cheap, but what direct competitors do they have for this thing? What's the low-price whitebox alternative?

Something like this?

Or this?

Or this,
this,
this,
this,
this
or
this?

(Add (bluetooth) keyboard where appropriate.. Or something like this.)

And naturally its all open source!

Yeah,
What did these suckers think of? The computer goes in the keyboard! It always has!

Let's start the movement for ex-Amiga slashdot keyboard linux computers agains Micro$oft tablet-PC's :)

Your PaceBook can easily be expanded with more memory. The PaceBook has a minimum of 128MB memory on board but can be upgraded to a maximum of 640MB.

I am excited about the new wireless monitors. I was seriously concidering the PaceBlade, a laptop with a wireless monitor! But felt it almost what I wanted, just not quite. For instance, no mention of whether or not I can use the monitor with a standard computer or if it takes analog signals for watching TV. I'll wait for that perfect combination.... hopefully not too long! I'm salivating.

One of my favourite concepts is the PaceBook. It's a kind of web pad or panel pc plus wireless keyboard. Both parts ship in a special bag so you can also use the system like a notebook.

(And it looks as if the device is actually available :)

I prefer small laptops and I want laptops with long battery life. Subnotebooks have been around before the Crusoe, but they had poor battery performance.

However, the designers of Crusoe laptops usually decide to make the batteries *even smaller* than those used in the old subnotebooks. Probably because "3 hourse is enough for most folks, so let's add features instead now that we save on the battery's size".

I really looked forward to Crusoe laptops, but so far, none of them delivered what I looked for in them. I hope that the PaceBook will one day stop being vaporware.

Well, it's not out yet but here's the Crusoe-based notebook I've been waiting for. It isn't out yet, but it doesn't seem like vapor. They've been updating their site recently and that's always a good sign.

The best part is that you can pull the screen away from the keyboard and use it as a webpad. That plus a non-scalding transmeta chip makes it worth the wait, for me at least.

The price is junk. Not long ago, Slashdot did a story on the PaceBlade, which claims it will have a larger screen (12 vs 10 inches), more standard memory, faster transmeta processor, bigger disk, detachable keyboard, etc for $1995. Add a wireless nic and you're still way ahead of this one.

Admittedly, their product hasn't shipped yet, but I'd be willing to wait to get something that looks truly useful.

The PaceBook comes with a Transmeta Crusoe 600MHz processor, 4MB SMI Lynx graphics controller, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB HDD, 12.1" XGA TFT-LCD display with Windows ME or Windows 2000 OS. Optional accessories include CD-RW/DVD-ROM, wireless infrared remote control and CCD camera.

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