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885g Pentium Sub-Notebook

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-is-sometimes-better dept.

Alicia (ad454) writes "A new sub-notebook was released in Japan today, the JVC InterLink Victor MP-XP7210, which is one of the smallest notebooks around in recent years that does not have a Transmeta emulation processor. It has a true Pentium-III 800MHz processor, weighs only 885 grams, and is only 225x152x28mm in size. It also comes with 256MB ram (384 max), 30 GB harddrive, 1024x600 TFT display, SoundBlaster Pro compatable audio, V90 56kbps fax/modem, 10/100 ethernet, USBx2, IEEE1394 (ilink/firewire), cardbus type 2 PCMCIA, and SD memory slot. You can get the specifications, which are in Japanese; you can use Alta Vista to translate it. A number of stores in Tokyo are selling it for (JPY)209,800. It would be interesting to hear what type of opensource Unix (NetBSD, Linux, etc.) and X-windows driver support exists for it. Although some may find the keyboard and screen too small, many of us find it quite useable, especially when compared to a PDA."

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  1. YEN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why couldn't slashdot do some work and save me some time by converting Yen to Dollars!!

  2. iBook, tiBook battery life by elysian1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is it with these tiny laptops that don't have longer battery life than an iBook or tiBook which has around 5 hours of battery life. I would think that if you had a tiny laptop, you'd probably be using it mostly away from any power source.

    1. Re:iBook, tiBook battery life by jchristopher · · Score: 2, Insightful
      What is it with these tiny laptops that don't have longer battery life than an iBook or tiBook [apple.com] which has around 5 hours of battery life.

      These tiny laptops are far, far smaller than even the already small iBook - smaller form factor means less space to put a battery.

      The iBook also owes some of it's long battery life to that fact that it's a bit underpowered for the task - OS X is fairly slow in my opinion, whereas a PIII 700 will run Windows 2000 or Linux just fine without lag.

  3. Re:JVC Laptop? by QuaZar666 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What makes you believe that JVC makes it? Most Laptops are made by 3rd partys such as Quanta, Toshiba, and a few others and then people put there names on it.

    The new Imac is even made by Quanta. The name on the machine does not mean they made it.

    -Qua