“Of all the ultra-mobile PC’s that arrived and will be arriving in 2007, Fujitsu’s has been the most highly awaited. That’s a serious claim, but as soon as people got a look at this device they started to get excited about it. After all, the first generation of UMPCs had some high points, but they missed the mark in a number of areas. The hope was that the arrival of the next generation would mark a considerable improvement.”
I’ve been watching the U810 for a while now, and I’m seriously impressed with it. My initial plans were to replace the hard drive with a SSD to ruggedize it a little bit, so I wouldn’t have to lug my 15″ Thinkpad around on trips.
The only catches are the price, and I’m not sure about touchscreen support in Linux/FreeBSD. $999 is a nice price, especially for this price of other UMPCs without an actual keyboard, but it’s a little bit more then used IBM/Lenovo X-series who don’t have compatibility questions.
Hopefully this will survive to be based on the Intel Silverthorne platform.
Looking at the pictures a sentence by Salad Fingers springs to mind: “What is this rather queer-looking contraption?”
Sorry, Fujitsu fans…
Queer looking and has Vista on it. Bad decision. A lot of people nowadays would rather go queer than run Vista (rightly so). I doubt the target group of queer Vista fetishists is large enough to make this one profitable.
Well, all the more customers for Asus and the Eee.
To me, the eeepc and olpc are much better alternatives to the UMPCs.
Who wants to pay $1000 for a small laptop?
I’ll leave the olpc out of this since it is very different and not at all in the same market segment as the U810.
$1000 is not a lot of money for a laptop. It also comes with a much better screen than the eee pc and it’s even smaller and lighter. The initial reports also seem to indicate better battery life. The screen folds back to a tablet PC configuration, which I certainly consider a huge plus.
So all in all the U810 is a better laptop than the eee pc in every way. If it’s worth the extra money or not for a better laptop is of course up to each person. And to answer your question, I’d happily $1000 for a small laptop that met my requirements.
i think the price is quite reasonable, considering what the sony umpc’s cost.
That is just SO 80’s retro
how sweet n cool 
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I bet atari portfolio is a little faster
to boot and get into apps…
😀
dont worry I know the history
Yup, you are right about abt looking like the Atari PortFolio but PortFolio is a basic DOS based machine in a very small form factor
This is much more
However the memory and processor may not handle demanding apps
Pair this with ThinServer XP as your back end application server and you are good to go
http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm