Sharp Smartbook

Dear Sharp, the early 90's called, and they want their industrial design back. Sharp is the latest company to jump on the smartbook bandwagon, a class of underpowered (PDF) mobile devices that aren't small enough to be smartphones, but aren't quite large enough to be netbooks. According to Sharp's press release, the PC-Z1 Netwalker runs a "smartbook remix" of Ubuntu 9.04. IMHO, this thing will be DOA should Sharp ship it in the US... Can we skip straight to the Apple tablet revolution?