They want their design for the Libretto u100 back.

About a hundred years ago, Apple made something very similar to this. It was essentially the last in the doomed Netwon line (ah, how I loved my Newton). Power-wise, it obvioulsy could not compete with this Nanobook, but we are talking about a computer manufactured essentially a decoade ago.

Light, stylish, portable, with a built-in keyboard AND pen-interactive touchscreen, the eMate really had it all. Unfortunately, it had it all about a decade before anyone really wanted it all, and about 5 years before the technology behind it became really elegant.

Sure, it was heavier (close to 4lbs, if memory serves), and a little bigger, and pricier ($800) (and, honestly, underpowered compared to the Newton 2100, the Lexus of the Newton line), but it was groundbreaking. As a writer who is constantly looking for portability and elegance (it's why I haven't yet "upgraded" from my 12" G4 powerbook to the new MacBooks), the eMate was sort of a touchstone.

I really wish Apple would take the subnotebook market as seriously as this company apparently does. Then I could keep my software, my job as a web designer, and my artistic ambitions all in one 2-lb shell. That would be awesome.

Unless you are 10 years old, your fingers will be too large to type on this. That's why these niche machines have never been popular. That's why Palm and others use a stylus. What we need is something with the umph of a laptop but the UI of a Palm.

I don't know what world tech writers have been living in, but in the real world p.c. and notebook prices have gone way down. Go to best buy and search for new laptops under $700 and you'll come up with 7 results. That is 7 full screen full keyboard full battery and expandable notebooks. This Nanobook is useless.

Review the product, state that it is over priced, comment that the keyboard is tiny, make note that the screen is barely readable, suggest the processor power is low...and you will sound more like a reviewer and less like a product advertiser. Why should anyone listen to your opinions when you spin crap like this?

first HP omnibook about 15 years ago, followed by the first sony picturebook available in japan a few years later (1999-2000 I think) -- they were the first very small and workable combinations i was ever able to find (agree above, the u series etc. are not touch-type able).

and they were NOT followed by anything close. their design philosophy seemed to just be dropped.

the omnibook even had flash memory. the models that followed were UP-sized because there seemed no market at the time for small screen/keyboard long(ish) memory, extreme portability.

same deal with the sony picturebook. they got BIGGER. the first was around two pounds, seven inch screen, small but comfortable keyboard. this is more than seven years ago.

the taiwan model looks interesting, but my guess is i'm still waiting for the perfect combination of lightness, battery, and keyboard. basically the next generation of omnibook or sony picture book that never happened.

memory lane:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0037/index.html

http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=857

Look @ dynamism:

HTC Shift

Kohjinsha SA1

Fujitsu U8240

as well as the

OQO

Flipstart

Vaio G1

Vaio UX

For micro keyboard based computers that aren't mainly tablet

Of course all of these are more expensive than that, often come with Japanese language OS and keyboards, but hey, small is small.

Even the Lenovo X60/61S series is pretty small. Right in range of the Asus U1, Panasonic R6 or T5

but i got my sony picture book in 98 or 99 from the late great "japan palmtop direct" jpd.com that predated dynamism by a few years.

i think jpd was the first with that business model -- importing and selling new SMALL machines from japan -- and either they failed on their own or dynamism out-competed them.

I was a computer tech when Packard Bell was still selling full-sized PCs in the US. They were hard to use and nightmares to work on. Why should I believe that Packard Bell Nano-PCs will be any better?