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15.06.2009 15:43

New VersaPro Ultralight VS revealed

Category: new notebook models
By: Pallab Jyotee Hazarika

You can try lifting it up with two fingers!

It weighs only 725gms, and as a slipped-out video shows – you can lift it up very easily with two fingers. The VersaPro Ultralight VS, or the “notebook killer” as IT media calls it, looks very lightweight and gives a very sleek feeling at the first look. It is encased in a silverish metallic magnesium exterior as well as the interior, with pearl-white keys. The absence of a trackpad and the mouse button might not go down too well with some people, instead of which there is a black trackball at the middle of the keyboard (Lenovo are you listening?).

It has a very good battery life of a promised 8 hours with the extended battery, along with a screen size that falls somewhere between the two hottest categories today – the 10.1-inch and the 11.6-inch, with the 10.6-inch display panel size. The resolution you’ll get on this screen is of 1280 x 768 pixels. One downsize is that the memory is not upgradable and is 1GB fixed. But the 64GB SSD should give it a lot of appeal, although that takes its price an extra 200 bucks.

Although the keys are not Chiclets-types, they look pretty comfortable. This 6mm thick netbook is powered by the superior Intel Atom Z540 (1.86GHz) with Intel GMA 500 graphics score integrating the Intel SCH US15W, the 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM and power LSI, display output, and chip / pin interface and make. It is also fanless.

Although the pricing is not known, but is said to be hovering around the $2000 mark, which is way too much for a netbook I guess. Availability is not known.


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