When you look in Google for ‘worlds smallest laptop’ and ‘worlds smallest notebook’ there’s nothing there that beats the Kohji. (Jan 2007).
Samsung M70, Q35 and the Kohjinsha SA1
And then take a look for the worlds most energy efficient laptop/notebook. Once again, the Kohji wins. It’s so energy efficient that you could run it from an 8W solar panel. It’s also one of the lightest too at under 1000gm. Then there’s the noise factor. As its fanless (AFAIK,) it’s potentially the quietest notebook PC in the world. Unfortunately, all this minaturisation makes it a contender for worlds most expensive notebook – per square cm and unfortunately its also one of the lowest CPU power notebooks available.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be living the Kohji mini-life and putting together some thoughts and eventually a full review on this Japanese tot so stay tuned. In the meantime, there’s the unboxing video below and over 50 images in the Gallery.
Thanks to Dynamism.com for shipping it over. I’ve got a buy option on it and I’ll probably take it. Mainly because the tax man hit me for 100 Euros as it came into Germany so I will probably take my time to do all the testing and then sell it on in Europe.
The Kohjinsha SA1 unboxing video:
Very helpful intro, Steve.
The size seems blessing and curse here: small enough to be easily held, yet too small on which to comfortably type. The lack of touchscreen seems to defeat the types of functionality that would be expected with the keyboard in hiding mode…
It is so a cool device. I use the UX280 and Q1 at work. But the UX keyboard is good for short writings, but the keyboard on the Kohjinsha lets write you longer texts, like on a normal notebook.
I think this year will be the year of UMPC 2nd generation.
Really helpful! i buy my Notebooks by notelap.
Thanks a lot