Evesham Light Book claims "world's lightest" with optical drive

by Paul Miller, posted Nov 13th 2006 at 3:41PM

We've seen some pretty dang ultralight laptops in our day, so we're a bit skeptical at Evesham's claim that its 1.4-inch thick 2.65 pound "Light Book" is the lightest ever to include an optical drive -- but 2.65 pounds is pretty dang light all the same. Along with that snazzy DVD/CD-RW/DVD-RW drive they somehow squeezed in, Evesham also included a 12.1-inch XGA display, Intel Core Solo low-voltage processor, Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics, 512MB of RAM, a 60GB HDD and a 4-in-1 card reader -- along with the standard complement of WiFi and a fingerprint reader. Despite all this, Evesham is still claiming five hours of battery life, with an option for a ten hour battery, and pricing it all at a semi-reasonable £999 ($1,910 US). The laptop could be getting some heated competition from the similarly minuscule Toughbook series, but it looks like the Light Book will put up a pretty good fight.

Filed under: Laptops

Tags: evesham, light book, LightBook, lightest

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gaotek @ Nov 13th 2006 3:56PM

what a beauty!
http://www.gaotek.com

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Naveed @ Nov 13th 2006 6:09PM

i agree

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Vladimir @ Nov 13th 2006 6:38PM

The Panasonic W5 has a dvd-rw and is 2.64 lb. A full .01 lb lighter! so, the evesham is NOT the lightest notebook with an optical drive in the world!

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Michael @ Nov 13th 2006 7:37PM

Yeah, Vlad. Until you install the OS on that Panasonic.

The weight of all of those Windows files makes it heaver than the competition.

Okay, okay, that wasn't as funny as I hoped it would be. Don't sue me, sue Scott Adams, i saw it in a Dilbert comic.

PHB: "My laptop is too heavy."
Dogbert: "Try deleting some of the files off of it."

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kev @ Nov 14th 2006 12:25AM

The question is, how long does the battery last? Seeing as how it wasn't even put into this fine Engadget piece, is this even worthy of considering as competition?

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kev @ Nov 14th 2006 12:25AM

Never mind, I can't read. 5 hours, 10 hours extended. That's not that great. I say go for the X60 tablet that just came out :p

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junkmail @ Nov 14th 2006 6:44AM

I thought the Vaio G1 is lighter? or am I wrong?

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phuzz @ Nov 14th 2006 6:51AM

I used to work for Evesham, and I can guarantee that this will be a re-badged, barebones chassis from some other company. There's only 5 people building laptops there, not a manufacturing plant...

(oh, and knowing who those people are/were, I wouldn't buy from them, but that's just me)

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Disgusted @ Nov 12th 2007 3:35PM

Until eveSHAM makes good on the warranty for the last product I bought from them, I must warn;

eveSHAM does not honor it's warranties and is horrible to deal with. They have no US presence and no contact info. Once their tech support (outsourced to a Caleris call center) decides to ignore you, you are just dead in the water.

Do yourself a huge favor and avoid eveSHAM no matter how cheap the product is.

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