Saturday, October 25, 2008

Libretto - Size matters. Not what you can do with it.


Toshiba has recently launched their new netbook. As usual, it looks quite similar to other netbooks and being Toshiba, it's a little bit more expensive.

I appreciate the fact that the standard size of netbooks seems to accommodate a usable keyboard, but I prefer the ones that are really small.

More than ten years ago, Toshiba released this fantastic Libretto 50, a small mini notebook. The keyboard was too small to touch type and the screen is very small.

If it was released today, with specs updated to run XP and priced in the same range as the Asus, I would buy it within a heart beat.

Specs to ponder.

  • Pentium 75 Mhz
  • 16MB Ram
  • 6.1" screen
  • 810MB HDD



Sharp PC6200 - Netbook?

The netbooks remind me of similar sized notebook that Sharp came out with a long time ago. My mother used to upload her blogs to a local BBS.

Specs to ponder over.

  • MS DOS
  • Intel 80286
  • 12MHz
  • 1 MB RAM
  • 20MB Hard disk
  • VGA Graphics - Mono



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