Gizmodo: Ultralight

Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Leaked

Sean Fallon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:00:37 EST

It appears that Lenovo have themselves a new ultralight X300 series Thinkpad—and outside of the price and release date, we have all of the specs that you need to know. At a glance, some of the major features include: a 13.3-inch LED backlit 1440X900 screen, an ultralight 2.5 pound form factor, and Intel Merom Santa Rosa Dual Core CPU (2.0 Ghz / 880 Mhz ), a 64 GB SSD, up to 4GB of DDR2 PC2-5300 memory, and 4 hours of battery life. Hit the gallery for the full details. [Thanks Tipster!]

Question of the Day: Do You Prefer Ultralight Laptops?

Sean Fallon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:00:29 EST

It seems that there are strong opinions on either side regarding the MacBook Air released earlier this week. Naturally this raises some questions—not only about the MacBook itself, but about ultra-light, ultra-thin laptops in general. That having been said, do you prefer laptops with a super-small form factor?

Palm Ultralight Branded Bluetooth Headset

Jason Chen — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:30:27 EDT

If you want a bluetooth headset to go along with your Treo 700p, 700w or 650, and really dig having all your gadgets say "Palm", you're just the target audience for this Ultralight Wireless Headset.

Palm repackaged the Plantronics 645 bluetooth headset, which like this, has a measly three hours of talk time. After a few months of usage, the thing will be down to an hour and a half and you'll be cursing as your Bluetooth headset dies yet again. Good thing there's a pocket AAA charger that you can use to charge between calls to push this up to "9" hours of talk time.

The price of the Plantronics Discovery 645 is actually $40 more at $169 compared to the Palm $129, so it's actually a fairly good deal. If you're looking for more talk time though, go for the Plantronics Discovery 640 which boasts five hours talk time (fifteen with the charger). – Jason Chen

Palm® Ultralight Wireless Headset [Palm]

Gateway E-100M Has Unannounced Intel Core Solo Inside

Charlie White — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:19:01 EDT

Gateway is now shipping the E-100M ultralight laptop, but oops, it's got an Intel Core Solo U1300 processor inside that Intel hasn't even officially announced yet.

The $1399 notebook looks pretty decent, though, weighing just 3.2 pounds with a 12.1-inch 1280x800 widescreen display. That semi-mysterious chip runs at 1.06GHz, working alongside 512MB of RAM and a 40-gig SATA hard disk.

Gateway 12.1in laptop sports unannounced Intel CPU [Reg Hardware]

Hands on With the Gateway NX100

johnb — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:27:30 EST

I've been waiting for a few weeks now to bust this new Gateway ultralight open and I'm pleased to say that this ultra-light laptop that is a grand departure from Gateway's current line-up and an interesting PC, if slightly flawed, PC to boot.

Read on, post jump.

The best thing about the NX100 is its size. It's just about 1 inch thick and weighs just about 3.5 pounds with a standard battery. Larger batteries are available, but they kind of destroy the aesthetic. The case is black—how much more black could it get?—and has a rubberized wrist rest. These are minor details that really stand out.

In terms of battery life, this initial model that I tested was pretty weak. It can last about 2 hours on one charge, but with external DVD drives and the like it might be considerably less. An extra battery pack is definitely a must. The NX100 runs a 1.2-GHz Core Solo processor and has a 12.1-inch screen. It comes with an external optical drive, up to 2GB of memory, and a 6-in-1 card reader. It also has 2 USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire port, and PCMCIA slot. Bluetooth is optional.

Generally, this is a great portable notebook, especially when paired with a dock and an extra battery. A fully-loaded model costs about $1,625 and lesser models start at about $1,400, so you're not paying that much for some great portability. Gaming on this thing? Nah. But Road Warriors take now—it's lighter than a copy of The Da Vinci Code.

Overall, battery life is the big downfall here, but that can be remedied. While Gateway has made lots of beige boxes in their day, it's good to see them branching out.