Dell gives Centrino a lighter touch

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 30 Jul 2003 at 17:30

Dell has announced the X300 Centrino notebook - its lightest and thinnest Latitude notebook to date at just 20mm in height and 1.32kg in weight.

At this scale, the box contains the bare minimum of hardware. Optical drives and further hard drives or batteries connect through external options - either an external D/Bay via USB2, or an optional MediaBase, which also adds a range of IO ports such as 10/100/1000 Ethernet.

Wireless options start with the standard 802.11b Centrino from Intel, rising to Dell's TrueMobile offerings, upping the ante to 802.11b/g or a/b/g and even Bluetooth.

Under the bonnet you'll find a low-voltage 1.2GHz Pentium chip, 128MB of DDR memory, a 20GB drive and a 24x CD-ROM drive as standard running Windows XP Home.

Prices start from £1,137.40.