IP: Tokyo Diary # 2

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Yesterday I went to the Akihabara with Hiro HASHIZUME of NACSIS. So what
was new:


1. The Sony pcg-505 Vaio looked very good. I have a Japanese one that was
given to me by a friend that I will bring home. It looks real good. The
screen is a decent size - nine inch ish . The new ones have a 233 mh
pentium -- the one I have is a 133. I did not want to buy a Japanese
version and will use this one to try it and if I like it wait till the US
version comes out. . I gather one can load it with Windows 98 beta so I
will try that when I get back (with help from an IPer). I will report after
I get a chance to use it.


2. The Libretto 100 looks rather good. The 2-type 2 pcmcia / 1 type 3 and
the infrared port is a big improvement. Again I will wait till the US
version gets released shortly in order to try it.


2. The Fujifilm Finepix 700 looks like a very neat digital camera with a
1.5 megapixel CCD camera and a 2 lcd display. display. It is 80mm x 101 mm
x 33 mm and weights 245 grams. Cost looked like 88,000 Yen street price. I
would have bought one cept for the Japanese display wording etc. Looks like
a real winner


3. The 40 inch Plasma displays are on sale for about 1.2 megaYen !!!! They
are "letterbox type (maybe HDTV format) and looks really great. Reasonably
thin. 


4. There were a semi infinite number of notebooks of all shape and sizes as
usual. 


I had lunch at a GREAT noodle place which I strongly will recommend. Cheap
and great , ask if you are going to Japan.


Yesterday was a busy day and ended with a reception at Nikkei which was
great also. Lots of excellent food, and people. 


More tomorrow


Dave