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When you re down to fighting over tenths of a pound, claims of"world's lightest" are more about marketing thanutility, but Gigabyte s X11 appears to fit the company s billingas such: Gigabyte just confirmed its 11.6-inch MacBookAir-lookalike exists and weighs just 975 grams, or about 2.15pounds. Contrast with Dell's top-selling XPS 13 Ultrabook,which weighs about three pounds. Gigabyte teased the new laptop last week with a promo slide thatread "Launch of the Lightest Notebook on Earth"followed by "Conquer the 6th Element" and a launch dateof today, May 31. No, not The Sixth Element (a 2006 surfing film/documentary, according to Wikipedia) butthe periodic table's sixth-in-position, i.e. carbon,referring in this case to carbon fiber, an ultra-strong,lightweight material I'm mostly familiar with from when Iused to cycle semi-competitively back in the early 1990s and forkedover a boatload of cash to buy a road bike made from the material. ( MORE: Would a $799 MacBook Air Threaten Next-Gen Ultrabook Sales? ) Of course Gigabyte then dated themselves by writing "Thus, wehave discovered the 6th element." A little late Gigabyte:Other Ultrabooks, including Dell's XPS 13, already use carbonfiber, and boutique PC-maker Voodoo PC was building lightweightlaptops wholly from carbon fiber back in the mid-aughts (I know,because I owned one). The X11′s also fully carbon fiber, savefor the hinge, which is aluminum. Gigabyte touts the strength ofcarbon fiber as "6 times stronger than that of an aluminumnotebook," though there's debate about which materialis more durable in specific circumstances — some in fact argue that aluminum is the more durable material, especially whenheated. Spec-wise, the 11.6-inch X11 is as thin as it looks: 0.12 inches atits tapered front, 0.65-inches at the back. It sports anunidentified "3rd generation Intel Core" processor (IvyBridge), 4GB of DDR3 memory, 128GB solid state hard drive,a Mobile Intel HM77 Express chipset with Intel HD Graphics 4000( according to Engadget ), 1366 x 768 pixel LED, 1.3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,one USB 2.0 and a second 3.0 port, microSD slot, audio in/out and amini-display port. Interestingly, Gigabyte is touting theX11′s sound playback capabilities — anemic in mostlaptops this size — as "rich" and"large" thanks to "the large resonator and largediaphragm monomer in the extremely thin chassis."(We'll see about that.) You'll also get a 4730mAhLi-ion sealed battery and a low-key, Apple-style keyboard. Gigabytesays the X11 will range in price from $999 to $1,299 and be"on the market" in July. The company also announced two other products: The U2442, alightweight notebook weighing 3.5 pounds with more powerful IvyBridge-based processors ($999 to $1,299, on the market in mid-June)and the U2440 notebook, a "light and thin" systemthat'll also pack Ivy Bridge as well as discrete NVIDIAgraphics (from $699, on the market by the end of June). MORE: Apple-Guessing: New MacBook Pro 13-inch Wanted More than 15-inchModel?. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Cold Rolled Steel Strip , Cold Rolled Stainless Steel Strip for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Cold Rolled Coils.
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