Announced and shown in
expositions since
1997 by both
SUN Microsystems and
Toshiba Corporation, the Toshiba
Confolio 300
laptop has never gotten out of
Japan.
Unlike most laptops, this
StrongARM-powered
notebook is (was?) running
JavaOS (1.1.x
Java Virtual Machine) which made it the first
portable network computer ever and a genuine
object of desire for most
geeks in these times.
It comes in 2 versions : the Confolio 300-S and the Confolio 300-SH.
Here are its main
specs :
You can still find some info (in
Japanese only) at the following
address :
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/1997_10/j3101/nc01_1.htm
It is not quite sure whether we may or not hear from this laptop again.