885g Pentium Sub-Notebook

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."

Comments

Microsoft Tax

[Luke-Jr]

Why do so many things still have the Microsoft tax?

Wrong OS for the screen estate

[pinkpineapple]

What bothers me with these sub laptops with tiny keyboards and screen sizes is the OS they try to run: Windows XP. The input manager in this OS is not appropriate to use such little cursor devices. The screen is way too small to do anything very seriously. On the other hand, WinCE (at least the UI, not the kernel) or better Linux Familiar (www.handhelds.org) would look way more appropriate. Why bother with XP?

PPA, the girl next door.