For me this is the one :
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/05/ultra_portables.html

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/turn_a_sony_u70.html is the link that holds the article but the link to the first review is http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/notebooks/sony_vaio_U50.htm

it says u50 in the link but it talks about both the u50 and the u70. wow so many pages to hunt. good luck everyone!

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/sony_u70_video.html

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/jkotr_reviews/index.html

It’s the very last article. That’s the permalink that points to the index that talks about the u70.

I’m going to say this is the link:

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/turn_a_sony_u70.html

Woadan

I feel it is the following as well:
The first reference to someone having reviewed via a hands on experience (as Nikoooo says) was a link in the post http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/sony_u70_video.html (though it was not by jk and http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/07/sony_u70_jack_o.html as the first by jk.

This is what prompted me to ultimately purchase a Sony U-750P (which I still own).

how about a competition for your oversees readers who miht be asleep for a few hours by the time a competition goes up?
The first reference to someone having reviewing via a hands on was (as Nikoooo says) a link in the post http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/sony_u70_video.html (though by non-jkOTR persons and http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/07/sony_u70_jack_o.html as the first by james the jkOTR person.

I was wrong the very first hand-on review was cited there:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/sony_u70_video.html
(and was previously posted… bye bye vista )) )

The actual first hand-on linked by JK was not from JK
Here’s the link to it:

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/sony_vaio_U50.htm

I think this is it…I think.

How’s this?

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/06/turn_a_sony_u70.html#comments

Well, I’m going to go a little further back than others have:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/05/ultra_portables.html

I object to the derogatory use of the word “pansy”.

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/07/sony_u70_jack_o.html

May 12 2004… picture of a hand (not JK) holding the U70

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/05/ultra_portables.html

Here’s my vote….
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/07/sony_u70_jack_o.html