Saturday, March 17, 2012

Gigabyte reveals their new U2442 series notebooks


Welcome back, 
Gigabyte, the Taiwan-based company, recently made headlines by launching not one but two laptop products at the CeBIT 2012 show. You may ask what’s new about that. Well, both the laptops utilize Intel’s Ultrabook platform.
gigabyte u2442
The U2442 Ultra Pro Book line consists of two different slim and light models: the U2442N and the U2442V. Both the Ultrabooks pack quite a number of interesting specs to consider.
Both the models are equipped with:
  • A 14 inch HD+ LED backlit display with a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels. Other specifications common between the two Ultrabooks include NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M discrete graphics with 2 GB of VRAM with a choice of solid state drives (SSD) of hard drives up to a maximum of 1000 GB.
  • You get a choice between Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge Core i5 – 3320 in 17W or 24W TDP modes (2.6 GHz for the ‘mobile’ version and 1.8 GHz for the ultra-mobile version).
  • The Ultrabooks both also offer two USB 3.0 interfaces, backlit keyboards, Bluetooth 4.0 and optional Thunderbolt ultra high speed connection. Full SD card slot is also provided and an in-built Wi-Fi module should provide the necessary Wi-Fi capability.
However, the only noticeable differences are:
U2442N
  • The U2442N model adopts Intel Core i5 and i7 processors based on Ivy Bridge architecture.
  • The thickness of the thinnest part of this Ultrabook is only 18.5mm with a total weight of 1.49 kg.
U2442V
  • The U2442V doesn’t make use of the Ivy Bridge processor.
  • It also trades in the standard voltage CPUs for ULV ones while keeping the standard display the same.
No details on pricing or release date are available as of yet but they are expected to debut in the market in May.

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