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Evesham Lightbook.(laptop computer)(Product/service evaluation)

Personal Computer World

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Byline: Cliff Joseph

Evesham Lightbook

Price [pounds sterling]999 Contact Evesham www.evesham.com

Evesham's Lightbook lives up to its name. With its external power adapter it only weighs about 1.7kg, making it the lightest model in the group. It's neatly designed, with a slimline, metallic grey casing that measures 3.5cm thick when folded shut.

The screen panel is a little flimsy and tends to flex easily, but Evesham includes a padded carrying case with the Lightbook to provide some protection when you're travelling.

We were pleased to see that the Lightbook has a memory card slot and a Firewire port, so you can easily transfer photos or video clips onto it. There's also a fingerprint reader to prevent unauthorised users from accessing your data.

If portability is your priority, the Lightbook is the obvious choice. However its lightweight design brings drawbacks. Most of its rivals are based on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but the Lightbook uses an older Core Solo processor running at a mere 1.2GHz. Unsurprisingly it emerges as the poorest all-round performer in our suite of benchmark tests. To be fair, though, ...

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