Fujitsu intros 5.6in bonsai laptop... with Vista Fujitsu's Japanese customers will soon be able to get their mitts on one of the most stylish - and tiniest - Atom-based mini-laptops we've seen: the LifeBook FMV Biblo U/B50. Fujitsu FMV Biblio U/B50 Fujitsu FMV Biblio U/B50: Atom powered The compact machine sports a 5.6in display that's nonetheless capable of a 1280 x 800 …
All this new small cheap computer stuff is very exciting, but I'm still on my Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000, running Angstrom Linux, and have yet to be impressed enuf by anything else to go and shell out.
My Zau is touch screen, it fits in my pocket, it runs everything I need (even ScummVM if I fancy a quick retro Monkey Island 2), and has enugh connectivity to handle anything I might wanna do. CF card wifi, iR to my phone, SD card, USB link.
I can't see the current fascination with the SCC when I've had the Zau for ages. Maybe Sharp just needed a bird on a beach to sell it properly?
That's pointlessly small - at that form factor a standard QWERTY layout's going to be no use. I get the appeal of small laptops, but this is reminiscent of the "small mobile phone" thing where you got tiny devices which couldn't be used by anyone with hands bigger than an 8 year old. Not to mention that they've rammed in enough hardware to run Vista. Exactly what Vista functions are so indispensable that you need them in a netbook, I ask?
Incredible that they can pack all that tech into such a small chassis, but damn that thing's fugly.
You'd have to be a serious early adopter (or really really need it) to buy one at this stage, but once Sony get their act going and make a VAIO version I'll have it.
Vomiting vulture 'cuz I'd probably hurl chunks too after opening the box and seeing it 'in the flesh', so to speak.
... had the tiny little thing on her mat, but then a breeze took it away into the waves. So they did away with the photo. Currently they are experimenting with a rock on top of the bookie, but then it isn't visible, and neither was the bird happy.
I guess, SONY marketing will have to come up with something different. Maybe a scantily clad lab girl observing the bonsai under a microscope?
Paris, because she doesn't like tiny little things ...
"designed for what Intel calls "mobile internet devices"."
And a Pocket Rocket of a Mobile Internet Device for Global Operating Devices into Spying for ITs Future, Tony. Stripped down to the Bare Maximum for Naked Imperial Plays without Aggression.
Bravo, Fujitsu, and who is your Champion in its Component Use/Product Placement/Nikkei Market Drive to Capture Toxic SQuillions for Nipponese RobotICQs.
And yes that is CodeXXXX for AIR&dDers, Tony, CyberIntelAIgently Designed to KickStart the Markets in Lands and for Houses of the Rising Sun....... for the Powerful Control of the Love of Money .....and the Route/Root of All Evil........ which will be one of SuperDuper Higher Definition Greater Games/ARGs/MMORPG2s for RoMoSapiens.... Time Zone Spaced Out Travellers. :-) with such a Ridiculous Premise being Quite AI Stealthy Cover.
Memo to Self ... I really gotta get out more? :-)
Yes, anyone with eyes in their head can see the display bezel sporting the end of what appears to be a stylii, and, the hinge of the LCD clearly sports a swivel hinge so you can fold the display shut, open. So, no touchpad or clit-stick as input devices.
Shame they didn't opt for the iPhone (and others) route of capacitive touch screen - aka touch screen utopia! Shame it costs a packet too - I'm very much in the market for an SCC, the EeePC 1000H looks to be my winner at the mojo...
These machines have been available in Japan for a couple of years, this is basically just a CPU bump.
Bit clunky to look at but not a bad machine - I nearly brought it several times.
There are a few other competitors in this space in the Japanese market - none of them are very cheap though.
ok, so i coined a phrase "baby laptops" and started a thread on my forum about it (mostly populated with fine register articles, duly acredited of course!)
http://www.eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=487
bbbut, what do we have here, yet ANOTHER class?!
do we now have a "midget laptops"? market space?!
must say the high res is a winner, well done fujitsu!
cheers,
bill
Both Fujitsu and Toshiba have been making tiny computers for ages, so there is not much new in this one. I bought a Toshiba Libretto 50 CT (http://resource.toshiba-europe.com/europe/computers/flyers/libretto/libretto_50_e.pdf) in 1999, and it was about he same size as this one (but, obviuosly, much lower specced). But all of these tiny tots have cost much more than similarly specced full-size laptops. Where Eee and followers have broken ground is in price.
Nofink new.
My UX280p has a nice fast core solo 1.2. 512gb ram, I've upgraded it to a 60 gig HD. it has 2 webcam, finger print gubbins, touch screen, etc
wifi, bluetooth, gprs, memory stick.
I run XP, but it can run vista fine.
I take it on hols and can edit my video with sony vegas and piccies in photoshop sitting at the beach with a beer.
And it looks a damn site better than that thing.
'Course sony don't make em anymore....
Paris because clearly when she sees me at the beech editing photos on my UX, she gets hot and wants me.
Used one of these (the older model) and trialled them for UMPCs for globetrotting execs.
As most of our exces (except my good self) all elderly and have poor eyesight, the gorgeous hi-res screen was illegible to them.
The ones we trialled were XP, and not too shabby on performance. The keyboard was tiny.
HOWEVER... when docked and plugged into my 24-inch monitor, with a real keyboard it was very cool.
On the down side, yes it is ugly and it comes with a wee 'Man Bag' to carry it in made in an attractive spongy material. 'Twas black but should have been pink.
Mine's the one with the Aston keys, and no UMPC
Maybe it has a resistive touchscreen (I dunno, couldn't be bothered to check) but it definitely has a wee mouse - check bottom right of the screen. My guess is it's one of those pad things like on the Libretto with two weeny little mouse buttons above it.
Physically possible - check
Can be made micro-size - check
Usable by human hands - we'll get back to you
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