Comments on: Photos: Pocket-size PCs

The 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U is powered by a 1.1GHz Intel Pentium M 733 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 20GB, 1.8-inch hard drive.

Finally, a tablet that could catch on

Shrinking a tablet PC to fit in a suitcoat pocket seems likely to make the form factor desirable and practical. What a tool for a college kid to take course notes on!

This is NOT a Tablet OS Computer its XP

It would makes sense to think that they would make this a Tablet PC, but it is a Home XP edition.

[rturner2]

Small PCs will not take off!

Small PCs will NOT take off in any big way for the following reasons:
- limited use (do not fully replace full blown PC)
- screen real estate is too small (who wants to pay a lot of money to go back to 800x600?)
- Windows XP takes far to long to load (compared with other mobile OSes)

Small PCs will only take off when they fully replace my desktop machine and have a large screen that can foldout or rollout from the small form factor.

At the end of the day, I don't want (or have the money for) yet another device - I already have my cell phone, MP3 player (which will be suffer increasing competition from cell phones in the years to come just like the PDA market), gameboy and computer.

[T3wirelessinternet]

regarding your comments

I will buy one. In a month or two, you will see a new wireless internet technology, not wifi or wimax, but like them on steroids. T1 and T3 wireless for $19.95 a month, 24hrs a day on line 2-3 cents a minute worldwide long distance. See www.T3wirelessinternet.com.