MFR’s Description: Mobility redefined! Flybook is a go-anywhere, do-everything computer. It’s as powerful as a desktop or a heavyweight laptop PC and as handy as a mobile phone. At a tiny 235 x 155 x 31mm, it’s crammed with the latest multimedia and telecommunications technology. Flybook is the office in your pocket!
Reviews located at the bottom of the page.
Flybook (1GHz Transmeta Crusoe TM-5800 CPU)
Note: This is soon to have a successor – the Flybook V3
Company/Manufacturing Information
| Company: | Holbe Dialogue Europe/Dialogue Technology |
| Company Website: | Flybook.biz |
| Model Name: | Flybook |
| Product Page: | Flybook.biz |
| Type: | Notebook/Tablet PC Hybrid/Convertible |
| Introduced: | Summer/Fall 2004 |
| Cost (MSRP/Street): | @ $2490.00 Base
Distributors (World-Wide) |
CPU/Processor & Chipset
| Processor Company: | Transmeta |
| Processor Model: | Transmeta Crusoe TM-5800 |
| Processor Speed: | 1GHz |
| Bus Speed: | ? |
| Cache Size/Type: | 64K L1 (128K combined L1)
512K L2 |
| Systemboard Chipset: | ALi 1535+ |
Display and Graphics
| Graphics Chipset: | ATi Radeon Mobility high performance low power chipset |
| Screen Type: | TFT LCD Touch screen |
| Screen Size: | 8.9 inches |
| Widescreen: | Yes |
| Resolution: | 1024×600 Wide-XGA/WXGA |
| Video Memory: | 16MB |
| Video Out: | 1xVGA, 1xVideo |
| Touch screen: | Yes |
Memory
| Memory Capacity: | 512MB |
| Memory Slots: | ? |
| Memory Type: | DDR SO DIMM (SDRAM) |
| Memory Speed: | ? |
| Shared With Video: | No |
Storage
| Hard Drive Interface: | Ultra DMA 66/100 |
| Hard Drive Capacity: | 40GB through 80GB
60GB – 7200rpm |
| Hard Drive Size: | 2.5″ |
| Optical Drive: | External |
Battery
| Battery Type: | Lithion Ion |
| Default Battery Size: | 3-Cell |
| Mfr Estimated Runtime: | ? |
Dimensions, and Weight
| Weight: | 2.7lbs |
| Height: | 1.22″ |
| Width: | 9.2″ |
| Depth: | 6.1″ |
Networking
| Wireless: | Built-In |
| Wireless Type: | IEEE 802.11b |
| Ethernet: | 10/100 Base-T/TX Ethernet |
| Modem: | 56K |
Input
| Keyboard: | 80-key standard keyboard |
| Mouse: | Trackpoint |
| Pen/Tablet: | Yes |
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I/O Ports
| USB Ports: | 2x USB 2.0 | | Firewire (1394): | 2xIEEE 1394 |
| PS/2, Serial, Parallel: | |
| Infrared: | ? |
PC Card Slots: | 1x PCMCIA Cardbus Type-I/II | | Flash Memory Card: | ? |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, version 1.1 |
| Port Replicator: | ? |
| Other I/O: | |
Audio
| Audio Chipset: | AC-97 |
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| Audio I/O: | Microphone jack, Headphone jack |
| Note: | |
Software
| Installed OS: | Microsoft® Windows® XP Home or Professional Edition |
| Drivers: | flybook.biz |
Protection and Security
| Fingerprint Reader: | |
| Harddrive Shock Protection: | |
| Hardware Passwords: | |
| Other: | |
Warranty, Misc
Reviews (Excerpts) – Click publication links to read the full review
HANDTOPS.COM – July 2004 – As someone who travels every month or two on business, I will be extremely happy with my new travel-mate. It is lightweight, very powerful, fully capable of connecting multiple USB and/or FireWire devices, GPRS, BT and more. The FB will be replacing my travel-worn Fujitsu P-2040 and I would sincerely recommend the FlyBook to everyone who was looking for such a powerful ultra-portable. Well done, Dialogue.
Pocket-Lint.Co.UK – July 2005 – Where the Flybook stands out is in its choice of design and features…..while it’s certainly not the best example we’ve seen of a tablet PC, it serves its purpose well.
