By Joe Osborne
Since Intel’s Ultrabook initiative kicked off a few years back, manufacturers have made great gains in pushing for thinner and lighter laptops. But even so, every Ultrabook I’ve picked up since has felt light for sure … for a laptop. That was before today, when a Lenovo representative handed me the Lenovo LaVie Z.
The first fruits of Lenovo’s joint venture with Japanese computer firm NEC – to land in the US – are two NEC-built, Lenovo-branded laptops: the LaVie Z HZ550, a 1.72-pound notebook, and the LaVie Z HZ750, a 2.04-pound 2-in-1 laptop. Here, I’ll focus on the HZ550, because it’s so lightweight that I had to ask the Lenovo rep to turn the thing on to confirm it wasn’t a mock up sample.
Holding it with one hand feels like you’re holding an iPad … only this is a Broadwell Intel Core i5-packed laptop running full Windows behind a 13.3-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 IGZO panel. This is thanks to a unique magnesium-lithium alloy chassis developed by NEC that’s 50% lighter than aluminum and as strong as any pure magnesium-built laptop, according to Lenovo.
Built by NEC, and it shows
NEC was the top computer vendor in …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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