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The 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U is powered by a 1.1GHz Intel Pentium M 733 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 20GB, 1.8-inch hard drive, Wi-Fi and Microsoft's Windows XP Professional operating system.

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Finally, a tablet that could catch on
by November 15, 2004 4:12 PM PST
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!
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Small PCs will not take off!
by rturner2 November 29, 2004 2:30 AM PST
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.
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