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Sony U-70 Micro PC Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the finger-cramps dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "jkendrick has posted a detailed of review of Sony's dream handheld, the U-70. Slightly bigger than a PDA, with a SVGA screen, 20Gb hard drive, and 1GHz Pentium-M processor, this device could replace your PDA, laptop and desktop. The price is high, though. Oh to be rich (or at least richer than I am...)"

4 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Sony.... by wobedraggled · · Score: 1, Troll

    No thanks, thier hardware has slid down in quality steadliy... I'd rather get an OQO...

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  2. Picture of the unit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    here

  3. Seen this before by Vanayr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seen this before, it's called a Newton 2100. I miss my Newton =(

  4. Re:Slightly? by southpolesammy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ummm....let me reword this a bit....

    Niche market. Mainly business types who will request a demo from the vendor to place on their desktop as the coolest new toy that our department is looking at, but will never use, nor even attempt to learn how to, nor even give to line employees who actually might find a use for the toy. Will never use on the plane because it's still on the desk (and still powered off). Will continue to use latest, greatest, and most powerful laptop that the company provides to create Word documents, while line employees continue to be frustrated with 4 year old technology running 5-6 year old OS's. Will eventually take the toy to a meeting, probably offsite, will lose the toy, and end up having to pay the vendor full price for the item. Vendor will then happily place the newest toy on said business type's desk ASAP, thereby ensuring the cycle repeats itself ad infinatum.

    (No, I'm not bitter, and I've never seen this happen before, why do you ask?)

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