NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile Netbook WiMax Enabled Atom Powered Netbook

NEC have officially announced their new, WiMax enabled, Atom powered
netbook - the NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile Netbook, which, apart from
offering up WiMax connectivity (seemingly as standard) seems a fairly
rudimentary affair in coming with a 1.66GHz Atom N280 under the hood
paired with 1GB RAM.

As you have probably gathered, were it not for the integration of WiMax,
there's really not that much on offer here that we haven't seen a
thousand times over. Indeed, if you were to take WiMax out of the
equation completely, it's really not all that newsworthy. That said, the
NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile Netbook does come with WiMax, and that just
about swings it for us.

In terms of overall specifications and features, if we say that the
LaVie Light Lui ticks all the boxes in line with standard netbook
offering you'll know what to expect and if you'd like to write those
down and tick them off as we go along the follow may, at least, have
some interest value.

The NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile Netbook comes with a 10.1 LCD display
offering a maximum resolution of 1024 x 600, the aforementioned Atom
N280 CPU and 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard disk, 1.3 megapixel webcam and
onboard Wi-Fi (802.11n) connectivity. You've checked all those boxes,
haven't you?

Interestingly, however, Bluetooth also appears to be on offer as
standard - were this a Dell netbook/notebook, that would cost you extra
- whilst the NEC LaVie Light Lui Mobile Netbook's battery endurance is
placed at the upper end in coming in at 8.5 hours operation based on a
full charge. Agreed, MSI's latest Wind netbooks exceed this, but there's
plenty of netbooks (and even laptops) out there that don't.

There's no word from NEC concerning unit pricing as at the time of
writing, however, NEC have at least seen fit to et us know when the
LaVie Light Lui Mobile Netbook will drop - that being 9th July, in Japan.

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