https://biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/products-services/letsnote/l...
https://content.biz.panasonic.com/jp-ja/fai/15800/raw
This is not from a wayback machine copy of dynamism.com - this is a new, Windows 10 laptop in 2020 (!)
I remember checking out new laptops from Japan and being amazed at how small they are... With zero change, they now look antiquated :D
Optical drivers still seem to be a thing...
And I don't think I've ever seen a circular touchpad before!
This variant was once offered in the US market something like a decade ago for "business-rugged" use under the Toughbook brand, but that magnesium exterior shell commanded a high price point; I suspect the ThinkPad T series would have been a direct competitor at the time with better performance options and being much cheaper.
Also, the screens are 1920x1200 across the board for the Let's, which is the same pixel density as a 1080p 16:9 monitor.
Without saying sizes you can't saying anything about pixel density.
The case was from magnesium alloy and it weighted exactly 2 lbs (less than a book of the same size I couldn't tell I had it in my backpack).
Perhaps today it might not seem like a feat but that was 12 years ago.
This was 10 years ago, but even then CD-ROMs seemed antiquated. It doesn't surprise me that Japan would be one place they're still common.
The only thing that Linux lacked at the time was ability to turn on-off economy mode (at the time never seen that in laptops, it was to keep charge at 80% to extend battery life). I needed to boot to windows to switch that. And functional/multimedia keys although I was able to find software to get that to work.
I would imagine the support would be better now.