Flybook VM

What initially looks like a run-of-the-mill laptop actually has a screen that lifts up onto a built-in stand, allowing you to type at a table with better posture and fit your computer on those blasted tiny tray tables on airplanes. The Flybook VM may look like your standard issue ultraportable, but deep inside this notebook wants to be a desktop, albeit a small one. The Flybook VM is due out later this month for $2,899.

Features:

• processor: Intel Core Duo (Yonah) LV 1.66GHz, Intel 945GM
• video card: integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• RAM: 512MB ~ 2GB DDR2
• hard disc: 1.8" 30GB ATA x 1
• display: 12.1" / 16:10 wide-view Color LTPS TFT LCD with (32-bit) 1280 x 768 high resolutions display
• optical device: DVD-RW or DVD/CD-R or DVD/ROM x1
• audio: Array Mic. / Stereo Speaker built-in
• input device: keyboard with 80 keys
• connections: 10/100Mbps & GigaLAN, USB 2.0 x 2, PCI-Express x 1
• weight: 1.6 kg
• dimensions: 292 x 222 x 25.8 (thinnest) mm
• Finger-Print recognition built-in, Camera built-in
• battery: 3 cell Li-Ion with 2.600 mAh, duration about 3 hours
• colour: silver/black/red
• operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Pro or Vista
• software: Software: ACMCAP,  Norman Anti-Virus Software (Testversion 3 Monate kostenlos), Cyberlink Power DVD, Cyberlink Power2Go vers. 5, Fingerprint, Application Suite PCA250 vers. 4.5.0.2

Comments:

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an onboard integrated video chip and can be called a faster clocked GMA 900 (on Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset, which is available only starting with Core Duo/Solo). 2006 it is the most often used graphics solution and is classified in the weakest third of mobile graphics solutions. So it can only be used for elder games. For office applications and surfing it is without any doubt sufficient.

Intel Core Duo (successor of Pentium M), is a double core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used common. The maximum current consumption of 31 Watts is only 4 W more then with Pentium M. Due to the low energy need is Core Duo also suited for subnotebooks. Further now it supports SSE3 orders. The performance can nearly be doubled for applications, which were designed for multiprocessors (compared with Pentium M). The L-variants are apt for office applications and surfing and are characterized by an especially low current consumption.

This display format can be called big subnotebook-format. The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few current, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.

This notebook ist much more lightweight than the average of all notebooks. The weight is about average for this display size.

2 USB-connections are hardly sufficient.
The 512 MB RAM must be upgraded, that is hardly sufficient.