Panasonic Let's Note W2.The W2 from Panny is the world's lightest two-spindle PC notebook with a built-in optical drive. The W2 follows on from the earlier, 999g "Light T1" laptop from the same company that had an 866MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium III Mobile CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , a 12.1-inch LCD screen and 20-gig hard drive. The Let's Note W2 also trounces the former world champ at being incredibly light [yet having a built-in optical drivel driv·el v. driv·eled or driv·elled, driv·el·ing or driv·el·ling, driv·els v.intr. 1. To slobber; drool. 2. To flow like spittle or saliva. 3. , which was the combo drive-toting X10 from Samsung, weighing in at 1.9kg but having a 14.1-inch display. So the W2 sports a 900MHz Pentium M processor, 12.1 inch LCD screen, combo (DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. & CD-R/RW) drive, 256MB of RAM, a 40-gig hard drive and weighs just 1.29kg. There's integral IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11b support, an SD Memory Card slot, the loading tray for the discs pops up out of the keyboard like something out of "XXX" (the movie with that rock hard Vin Diesel guy) and, possibly more importantly, it has a battery that is claimed to last a whopping five hours and 41 minutes. But 1.29kg--you can't beat that. More info: http://panasonic.jp/pc/products/w2a/index.html [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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