Japanese lesson of the day: hagaki means “postcard”. Hence, the Hagaki PC, a low-rentish touchscreen device whose main selling point is the fact that it’s a postcard-sized 13.5 x 11 cm x 1.8 cm (hell, that’s a thick postcard) and weighs 340g. The guts are a 266Mhz AMD Geode SC1200 and 128MB of memory, and there are CF, USB1.1 and headphone ports. Everything goes a touch downhill from there, unfortunately; no hard drive, so you have to boot your OS off a CF card, microdrive or USB drive, and there’s no inbuilt WiFi, ethernet port, or even modem. It’ll run Windows 95/98/2000 XP or Linux, and should sell for about Y100,000 ($900). That’s quite a bit cheaper than the Y180,000 that the somewhat-larger Sony Vaio U50 goes for, but a good chunk more than most PDAs. The twixt-rock-and-hard-place pricing and the DIY looks combined make it a little hard to get too worked up about this one.
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Source : Engadget