Clevo's new 12-inch ultraportable rocks the HSDPA
By Evan Blass 
posted Apr 19th 2007 11:20AM
posted Apr 19th 2007 11:20AM
Clevo, original source for many hundreds of OEM laptops, has just announced a model that's sure to be a hit among the rebadging crowd, as it offers a pretty compelling feature set in a sub-four-pound package. Besides being the first notebook to sport SiS' new SiSM671 "high performance" Northbridge chipset, the 12.1-inch M721S/M720S also offers a choice of Core 2 Duo processors, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, and sweetest of all, a built in 3G modem for UMTS / HSDPA action. Price and release remain a mystery (still no mention of this one on the Clevo site), but even if you miss it the first time around, you can rest assured that it will show up in countless other branded iterations.[Via Laptop Logic]
Sweetness! Now give me a 120 gig hard drive (HHD preferably), a 2.33 or higher Core 2 Duo processor, 16x DVDRW drive, aaaaaaaaand... oh yeah, an 8 hour battery life ;-)
*wishful thinking*
But this does sound like a step in the right direction.
Actually, flash drive was what I was thinking. I don't think it needs to be super large, but a laptop with this sort of mobile connectivity needs to be engineered to be mobile for as long as possible.
Can you use Skype through HSDPA on this laptop?
well, when compare with Panasonic's ultra-light and long lifetime laptop (e.g. W4), Clevo's laptop is just nothing special...