HP released Voodoo Envy 133 the new thin and light notebook, offering up a bit more competition to notebooks such as the Lenovo X300 and Apple Macbook Air. This new ultraportable notebook holds nothing back as it goes head to head with the competition, with a full range of features that almost every business user will be sure to love.

Voodoo stuck the 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo SP7700 processor in the Envy 133, which offers business users a good amount of crunching power for most business tasks. It won’t smoke through games, but it will be more friendly on battery power.

The Envy 133 starts at as little as 3.373lbs, with a chassis that measures 0.70″ thin, 9.04″ deep and 12.65″ wide with the SSD and battery. Just a tad heavier than both the Macbook Air and Lenovo X300 but only by a fraction of a pound.

Envy 133 offers a wide range of ports, some of which you don’t generally find on business notebooks. These include 2 USB ports, 1 HDMI, and 1 eSATA (shared with one USB port). The Envy also features a user-replaceable battery, which boasts up to 3.45 hours of battery life.

A few unique features also show up on the Envy 133. These include the following:

• Ambient light sensor to adjust the screen backlight depending on the light in a given room setting
• Backlit Keyboard
• Touchpad Proximity sensor to disable the touchpad while typing to prevent any mouse wandering

With a starting price of $2,099, the Voodoo envy 133 is priced right in the middle between the Lenovo X300 at $2,700 and the Macbook Air starting at $1,800. It will be interesting to see how well this notebook performs once we have a chance to get our hands on it.

Specifitcation:
PROCESSOR
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor SP7500 (1.6 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
or
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor SP7700 (1.8 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)

DISPLAY
• 13.3″ WXGA High-Definition Widescreen LED Backlit Display (1280×800)
• Ambient light sensor

DIMENSIONS
• Width (cm): 32.2 = 12.65 inches
• Depth (cm): 23= 9.04 inches
• Height front & rear (cm): 1.79 = .70 inches
• Weight starting at: 1.53Kg = 3.373 lbs. (with SSD & battery)

GRAPHICS
• Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (shared)

CASING
• Carbon fiber with custom micro-weave design

HDD
• 64GB Solid State drive or 80G HDD 4200RPM

EXTERNAL ODD
• ID coordinated
• External slot-load eSATA Super Multi drive
• Dual format DVDRW, including both +R and -R in double layer: 24X CD
Read/ 24X CD-R Write/ 24X CD-RW Write/ 8X DVD Read/ 8X DVD+R/R/RW
Write in single layer, 6x dual layer. 5X DVD-RAM Read and Write.

NETWORKING & WIRELESS
• Integrated Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
• Bluetooth™
• Voodoo Aura PowerConnect – 56W AC Power, plus integrated
802.11b/g wireless personal access point + RJ45

I/O PORTS
• Video: HDMI video port (max resolution 1920×1080)
• Audio: Headphone out shared with Microphone in
Digital array microphone with beam-forming and noise
cancellation capability
2 speakers
• Additional I/O: DC
1 x USB 2.0
1 x e-SATA / USB 2.0 combo

POWER
• 3-Cell, 33 Whr Lithium ion polymer, user replaceable
• Up to 3 hr 45 min battery life, depending on usage
• 56W AC Power (Voodoo Aura PowerConnect)

USER INTERFACE
• Large touchpad with multiple finger tracking, supporting chiral scrolling,
pinch and momentum gestures
• LED backlit Keyboard
• Proximity sensor for touchpad disable

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