Fujitsu's Turn Table PC and Ultra Mobile debut at CEATEC

Fujitsu was starting to feel a little left out of all the CEATEC fun, what with its rivals demoing products left and right at the major Japanese expo going on this week in Chiba, just outside Tokyo. We came across some snaps of what appears to be two concept devices, the "Turn Table PC," and the "Ultra Mobile," a slick-looking media player. The Turn Table PC looks like it has a strange-looking lid along with a touch-sensitive backlit keyboard, which could mean that those filthy keyboard days are over. (However, these types of keyboards seem unlikely to take off, given that there's hardly any tactile feedback.) In addition, the Ultra Mobile seems to have a twistable case, revealing a mic and webcam, and at least a few USB ports on the left side. Unfortunately details about these new products are on the sparse side, but we do hope that the Turn Table PC (peep it on the next page) has the option of being able to spin records so we can get our b-boy on.

[Dave @ Oct 3rd 2006 6:59PM]

sweet looking laptop... not thrilled about the keyboard.

they also have an interesting concept for the mp3 player.

[Rock Stone @ Oct 3rd 2006 7:57PM]

Darnit! That media player is what my next-gen Zune was kinda turning out to be. Back to the drawing board...

[dLeet @ Oct 3rd 2006 8:13PM]

Am I seeing this correctly? The photos for the table top PC looks to have two screens on it? (note the indentation for potential screens on both sides of the lid). Interesting...

[John from Buffalo @ Oct 3rd 2006 8:57PM]

Thats fscking sexy! I'm pimp that with 1337 linux!

[Dan @ Oct 3rd 2006 9:33PM]

The laptop looks nice, but why so thick? It looks like it's at least 17" and the screen lid looks over 2 times thicker than some others. With at least 17", the whole thing should be a lot thinner. Unless of course there is something crazy like 2 Xeons, 2 displays, 2 hard drives and a bunch of RAM.

[KJ @ Oct 4th 2006 3:57AM]

In my opinion they both look nice and at dan read the article it isn't a laptop but a pc.

[Christian @ Oct 3rd 2006 10:58PM]

I actually like this one! Wish it does come to development rather than display unit of what's to come.

[Emmanuel @ Oct 4th 2006 12:21AM]

Is it just me or do both of those designs look like pieces of Apple hardware? The laptop looks like a Powerbook but, plastic, thicker and with needless legs and lights. The Media player looks like a Mac Mini with a swivel top. I wonder why the media player swivels at all? What does the swivel action reveal? That black dot at the top looks like a camera but, that would be awkward to use. It would be better to just put a camera in the bezel and make it one unified body piece. I'm glad that Fujitsu isn't make these things.

[Mike @ Oct 4th 2006 4:10AM]

Actually, I like the design of the laptop. I would buy one if it was available and near the ballpark figure of the macbook.

It has some very nice stylings and it's good to see there are companies besides apple and sony that pump a lot of money into the design department.

Nice, I like the backlit keyboard. Looks nice real nice!

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[Zobi @ Oct 4th 2006 5:17AM]

I WANT IT!

[bob @ Oct 6th 2006 1:26PM]

did any one elso notice, but why does the media player say "PC" on it? is it actually a umpc? the only negatives about it I can see are that it is a 4:3 screen.