There may well be a niche and I have seen a 2.5 lb linux box before
One care that I generally have about laptops is not so much size, as weight. Most low-cost laptops are easily heavier than 2.5 kg, i.e. more than twice the weight of this device. For this reason we used a Toshiba Libretto a lot as an ultra portable linux box (1.2 kg or approx 2.5 pounds: we even used it as web-server to host experimental web-services our sysadmins would not allow on the main web-server until thoroughly tested). The ultra-compacts using screens of around 10-13" are readily available now, but they tend to be rather expensive: my VAIO SZ-series 1.7 kg powerhouse cost over 2,500 Euros, but then I need 3-D rendering horsepower for demos. If you do not need this kind of horsepower, the Palm device might come in handy.
Of course, businesses might not worry about the cost of an ultra-compact laptop as much as private users.
I will stick with a separate PDA (Tungsten T3) for now, and might even move to a T/X. Smartphones are not as nicely compact as regular mobile phones, and do not have the screen real estate of a PDA
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There may well be a niche and I have seen a 2.5 lb linux box before
One care that I generally have about laptops is not so much size, as weight. Most low-cost laptops are easily heavier than 2.5 kg, i.e. more than twice the weight of this device. For this reason we used a Toshiba Libretto a lot as an ultra portable linux box (1.2 kg or approx 2.5 pounds: we even used it as web-server to host experimental web-services our sysadmins would not allow on the main web-server until thoroughly tested). The ultra-compacts using screens of around 10-13" are readily available now, but they tend to be rather expensive: my VAIO SZ-series 1.7 kg powerhouse cost over 2,500 Euros, but then I need 3-D rendering horsepower for demos. If you do not need this kind of horsepower, the Palm device might come in handy.
Of course, businesses might not worry about the cost of an ultra-compact laptop as much as private users.
I will stick with a separate PDA (Tungsten T3) for now, and might even move to a T/X. Smartphones are not as nicely compact as regular mobile phones, and do not have the screen real estate of a PDA