Over the last few months, laptop manufacturers have been flooding the markets with relatively cheap, ultraportable notebooks that offer easy access to the Internet and file managing.

These small notebooks seem to offer people what they need, a low-cost, but still reliable, laptop solution for working or entertainment while on the go. Recently, major laptop manufacturer Fujitsu has announced some updates to their mini notebooks, making them more reliable and adding more performance. Fujitsu is launching its LifeBook U820, which runs on an Atom processor and which will be equipped with a solid-state drive of 64 GB. Also, Fujitsu launched its LifeBook P1630 on the convertible tablet market.

Currently, Fujitsu is at its second attempt of offering high quality, low cost mini notebooks and it seems that the trend of this tiny devices won’t be extinguished so quickly as some predicted. The LifeBook U820 is not the standard ultra-portable notebook, as it makes the best out of its Atom processor being even smaller than other similar devices. The display of this tiny notebook is only between 7 and 10 inches, making it very small and, thus, very portable. Unfortunately, for Fujitsu, the new U820 doesn’t qualify for the “low-cost category” as it has a price tag of $1,049, which is a lot for the size of the tiny device. At this price people can easily pick other laptops that can satisfy their needs in the same way or even better.

All in all, the mini-notebook market is blooming as many companies have released their versions of ultra-portable devices. In the last week of October, Lenovo, Dell and HP released such devices, giving the consumer more options from which to pick.