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

Today, the Japanese company Sharp released the PC-Z1 NetWalker on ARM.
It has a 5-inch TFT LCD touchscreen, 1024 x600, 512 MB RAM, 4 Gb SSD, microSD slot (up to 16 Gb).
The most interesting thing is that its dimensions are 161.4 x 108.7 x 19.7 - 24.8 mm, and its weight is 409 grams . QWERTY keyboard scale 68% of full. Built-in 802.11b / g WiFi and two USB slots - all as expected.
At the same time, the battery lasts 10 hours (thanks to the ARM processor). From the goodies - a 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 is starting to win. (As I recall Linpus Linux on the eeePC 900, I will startle!) By the way, Toshiba also puts Ubuntu on netbooks as normal, well-functioning and sleek Linux. The Japanese cannot refuse common sense in these matters. All they have to do is to finally understand that it should be Xubuntu ...

Cost in Japan is equivalent to $ 479.

To be honest, this is the first machine on ARM that I would really like to wake up and possibly buy. Hooked. Want her. Very nice done. This is especially evident in the photo of the model in a white case .
This is a serious product. The set of features is such that it becomes real, and not as a cool gadget, is interesting to the mass user.

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

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

PS Since, as I wrote, a note has already appeared on Netbooks - I clean it up in my personal blog.