The current crop of Eee PC-a-likes may all be tiny, but they’re not exactly bursting with power. Fujitsu has put some proper grunt into the Lifebook P1620, but it comes at a price.

With a US asking price of $2699 - about £1,385 - you could buy four or possibly even five of its low cost competitors. This price jump does get you a grown up Intel Core 2 Duo chip whirring away at 1.2GHz, a slightly stingy 1GB of RAM and a 100GB hard drive.

As it’s a tablet, you can write on its touch sensitive face and its tilt and turn 8.9in screen stretches to a decent 1,280×768 pixels when the cheaper crop top out at 1,024×600. It weighs in at under 1Kg and takes up a mere 232×167x37mm of space.

It’s unlikely to be long before the pint-sized portables catch up in terms of performance, though, so unless Fujitsu can do something about that price it could be outclassed pretty quickly.

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Fujitsu Siemens (via APC Mag)