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HCL's MiLeap X and Y Series

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The X series is priced at Rs 13,990, and it is a 1.4 kg ultra portable with a

7" LCD, running Linux with a GUI. It has 2 GB flash-based storage instead of a

hard drive, built-in wireless, USB and PC Card socket. It even has soft

faux-leather cladding to make it shock-resistant.

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HCL Mileap X

Series

The Y series is priced at Rs 29,990. It is fully loaded with Microsoft Vista.

The 980 gm laptop has multiple navigation (thumboard, stylus, keyboard, touch

and voice), The Y series has a 1.8" 80 GB hard drive, and a battery life of

about 4 hours.

The laptops have built-in WiFi, and use Intel mobile processors. The laptops

are "simple, sturdy and reliable, energy efficient, safe and rounded with no

sharp corners or edges, and are RoHS compliant."

HCL MiLeap Y Series

Announcing the products, HCL chairman Ajai Chowdhry said that these products

made portable computing accessible to a large part of the population in India.

These "products have the power to change the marketplace," he said. There was a

space in the market with more mobility than a laptop, and more capability than a

cell phone, he added. "This has been a day I've dreamt of for a long time.... The

future of computing is now."

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