This is thin. Using flash memory in place of the standard hard-disk drive, Ziba (The Motorola RAZR designer) and Intel have managed to make this laptop just 0.7 inches thick. The use of flash resulted in a side benefit: the laptop consumes less power and offers up to 14 hours of battery life. At 2.25 pounds (abt 1kg), it’s also among the lightest notebooks around.
When Intel commissioned Ziba, in Portland (Ore.), to design this laptop, it asked the design firm to develop a device that would be roughly comparable in thickness to Motorola’s famed Razr phone, which won accolades for thinness. Motorola’s just-unveiled Razr2 phone is thinner still: 0.46 inches when closed. But where the Razr only connects with cell-phone networks, this laptop can also access the Web via Wi-Fi and WiMax wireless-broadband connections.
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