Packard Bell unveils multi-touch swivel laptop

Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly Touch Edition

Packard Bell has revealed its latest premium laptop featuring multi-touch capabilities and a stylish swivelling screen.

The EasyNote Butterfly Touch Edition can be used as both a laptop and tablet PC with its 180 degree rotational screen adjusting to fit the user's preference.

Screen size comes in at 11.6in with 1366 x 768 pixels screen resolution and a full size keyboard but, even though it is of laptop proportions, it benefits from a netbook style battery life with six cells lasting up to eight hours.

Installed with Windows 7 Home Premium, the laptop has a 640MB hard disk drive, plus up to 4GB RAM.

It weighs in at less than 1.6kg and comes with built in Wi-Fi, a microphone, VGA webcam, optional 3G module and optional Bluetooth as well as a 5-in-1 card reader and HDMI port.

The new product will be available towards the end of February at around the 500 mark.

Jennifer Scott is a former freelance journalist and currently political reporter for Sky News. She has a varied writing history, having started her career at Dennis Publishing, working in various roles across its business technology titles, including ITPro. Jennifer has specialised in a number of areas over the years and has produced a wealth of content for ITPro, focusing largely on data storage, networking, cloud computing, and telecommunications.

Most recently Jennifer has turned her skills to the political sphere and broadcast journalism, where she has worked for the BBC as a political reporter, before moving to Sky News.

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