Philip's new X200 ultraportable laptop sticks its neck out

Perhaps its the extra lovin' Philips has given to stylings here, but somehow that extendable screen arm doesn't seem like as much of a gimmick this time around. The new X200 ultraportable sports a 1.73GHz Core Duo U2500 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 100GB HDD, DVD combo drive, 1.3 megapixel webcam and Windows Vista. The 12.1-inches of widescreen LCD probably aren't enough to get in the way of regular tray table use -- a favorite example of extenda-arm proponents -- but at least you won't have to do as much hunkering in front of this laptop when it's on your desk, thanks to the extra inches of vertical. The laptop looks to be shipping now in the UK for £850, about $1,700 US.

[Via PClaunches]

[Sneakz @ Apr 25th 2007 8:30PM]

Cool concept, would pick up one if it came stateside. Border around LCD thicker than it really needs to be for a laptop.

[Brian @ Apr 25th 2007 8:40PM]

One word: Flybook

[Kev50027 @ Apr 25th 2007 9:04PM]

No core 2 love? Also, the battery life is probably hideous.