The Smallest Notebook!

To recap, we are looking for the smallest Windows Notebook. The requirements are that it has to at least be able to run Windows XP.

After much research and some Googling, the winner is the OQO , the smallest full-powered, full-featured personal computer, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It was around before the term UMPC was coined – the first model was called a “ultra personal computer (uPC)”

So, what is the OQO? Wikipedia has some details, so does CNET.com. There have been a number models of the OQO, with the first OQO, the OQO Model 01 released in the fall of 2004 with the computer shipped with a 1 GHz Transmeta Crusoe processor 20 GB hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM. It also had integrated 802.11b wireless, Bluetooth and a USB 1.1 port. It ran Windows XP.

OQO Model 01Now the Important part - size and weight: 4.9 by 3.4 by 0.9 inches and it weighs 0.9 lbs. Apart from the weight, the size is closer to a PDA than most UMPCs.

The OQO is very much a PC though, as newer versions (the OQO Model 02) can run Windows Vista. The OQO can also run modified versions of Linux.

Posted on February 28th, 2009 by mervyn

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2 Responses to “The Smallest Notebook!”

  1. dang Says:

    Can you tell me how much ?

    March 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
  2. mervyn Says:

    The latest version of the OQO, the OQO Model 02+ with a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom processor and Windows XP, starts at $999. The model with a 1.86 GHz processor and 2GB RAM, and which comes with either Windows XP or Windows Vista Business Edition, starts at $1499. This is from the oqo.com website.

    March 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 pm

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