Dynamism informs me that they will announce imports of the SL-C700 next week.
Unix-ish folks are already ga-ga over the SL-5×00, which is little more than a toy for sysadmin duties. It can do some neat things thanks to Linux, but trying to decipher an ls -la or a log file on a 240-pixel screen is an exercise in frustration.
The SL-C700 can be much more than a toy. The VGA screen provides a true 80-column display. The keyboard is big enough to be useful for anyone. It’s a serious Unix workstation that fits in a pocket. Toss in a serial cable and it can replace crash carts in the data center and laptops in the field. Every CCNE and Unix sysadmin will want one.
I’m hoping that Sharp will see the light and offer up a US model with 128MB RAM. Or better yet, re-design it to take a standard SO-DIMM. Give it the juice to run real desktop applications!
