Cool toy: PC-Z1 NetWalker on ARM from Sharp. With Ubuntu

Today, the Japanese company Sharp has released the PC-Z1 NetWalker on ARM.
It has a 5-inch TFT LCD touchscreen, 1024 x600, 512 MB RAM, 4 Gb SSD, slot for microSD (up to 16 Gb).
The most interesting is that its dimensions are 161.4 x 108.7 x 19.7 - 24.8 mm, and weight is 409 grams . QWERTY keyboard scale 68% of full. Built-in 802.11b / g WiFi and two USB slots - everything is as it should be.
At the same time, the battery lasts for 10 hours of operation (thanks to the ARM processor). From delicacies - quick start in 3 seconds.

800MHz Freescale i.MX515 processor, architecture on ARM Cortex-A8. The operating system is Linux Ubuntu (sic!). Finally, common sense in the OS world for ARM begins to win. (As I recall Linpus Linux on the eeePC 900, I’m trembling!) By the way, Toshiba also installs Ubuntu on netbooks as a normal, debugged and polished Linux. Japanese can not refuse in common sense in these matters. It remains for them quite a bit - finally understand that it must be a Xubuntu ...

Cost in Japan is equivalent to $ 479.
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To be honest, this is the first machine on the ARM, which I would like to really pokazat hands and, perhaps, buy. Hooked. Want her. Very nicely made. This is especially clearly seen in the photo of the model in a white case .
This is already a serious product. The combination of features is such that it becomes real, and not as a cool gadget, interesting to the mass user.

Sharp is still Sharp. And Japan is Japan. It seems that serious players are joining the battle for the smartbook market on ARM.

Very, very happy to see such devices on the market. Especially for the price of less than $ 500, and not ... as always. I really hope that this machine will eventually reach our edges, and it will be possible to touch it with our hands in work.

PS Since, while I was writing, a note has already appeared in Netbooks - I’m putting it to my personal blog.