What do you think of Sony's C1 picturebook?

[p0ntif]

I am considering getting a laptop, and have been enthralled with Sony's c1 picturebook, as i want something ultra portable, and i think i can readily stick this thing in a coat pocket. However, I am going to want to do a lot of work on it, and the CPU speed is adequate, i am just a little concerned about the lack of ram. if someone has any experience with one of these or knows someone who uses one, or could reccomend something similar by another maker, or care to make any suggestions considering this potential purchase, please post!
thanks!

 

[Spicedaddy]

I don't know much about the Picturebook, but I love the Fujitsu P2000...

 

[p0ntif]

wow, p2000 is nice!
the cd drive is a good feature.

 

[gaidin123]

The Fujitsu lifebook p-20xx series notebooks are the smallest, full featured notebook with an internal optical drive (at least this was the case a year ago when I bought mine). A ~3lb. notebook that can run WinXP acceptably with DVD/CDRW combo drive in it is a pretty rare thing. My absolute only complaint with it is the performance of the Crusoe chip. I have the original 800Mhz version and it isn't quite fast enough to do everything I think the laptop should be capable of. It plays DVDs pretty well but it can only play some divx files without losing synch/skipping a lot of frames. I'd assume the newer 933Mhz(?) with better videomodel would help fix this one problem.

The original ones didn't have the option for onboard 802.11b but they added that just after they finally got stock of the original ones. <sigh>

With the extended battery and the DVD drive in the media bay I get around 5 hours of normal usage, somewhat less if I'm heavily accessing the drive or using 100% of the CPU. There are also no fans in the thing. You can only faintly hear the hard drive spinning in a quiet room.

As for the topic of this thread, I remember looking at the picturebook at the time and didn't like the fact that it had no onboard optical drive, and the Crusoe chip was the even slower 667Mhz version. If they have a faster version now then it might be a better performer.

I'm hoping that Fujitsu will come out with a Pentium-M version of the P-series notebooks but I'm pretty sure that I shouldn't be getting my hopes up...

Oh, and take a look at Toshiba's Libretto L1 line. Those are some sweet subnotebooks as well though they are pretty expensive.

Gaidin

 

[p0ntif]

Couldn;t find any librettos on toshibas US site. But i found some fan pages, and those things are TINY!
really small. maybe even too small!

 

[gaidin123]

Check out http://www.dynamism.com. They import trendy and ultra small Japanese model laptops and warrant them for the American market. They always have the newest models before they (sometimes) come overseas. I think they even had a hybrid Sony handycam/laptop a while back. Why anyone would possibly want one is beyond me, but it sure looked interesting.

They have the Picturebooks, Librettos, newer japanese imports. It's expensive, but you could be one of the few people in America to have some of those laptops.

Gaidin

 

[p0ntif]

those liberettos are nice! I'm gonna have to look over these laptops, as they are pretty much what I am looking for. I do wish they had better video quality, and I think it is a necessity to have 512MB Ram.