So, what made this thing feel like the future?  It was a palmtop computing device that sported a VIA C7-M ULV 1.6 GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, either 64GB of SSD or 120GB HDD (SDD seemed like a better bet given how portable this thing was and you didn't really want that many moving parts on it), it had WiFi, 2G/3G GSM, Bluetooth, a wacom screen and a removable battery.  What made it interesting was that the core device could be docked for use with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor (and had the company not gone under, I would have expected external GPUs to be added to that expandability), but the core device was ultra portable.  This meant that you could bring it to class, the office, or home, plug it into a dock, and continue working. The thing only weighed 413g.

I do wonder if a return to this kind of form factor can ever make a comeback.  We see sort of similar concepts with the Nintendo Switch, but this is more of a specific gaming device rather than a general-purpose computing device.