HCL goes 'distinctly Indian' with new Leaptop

BANGALORE, INDIA: It’s India shining for the HCL despite the global slowdown. With three decades of experience and expertise in the computer market, the PC maker today launched new series – Leaptop Series 39 - “exclusively designed” for the Indian market and climatic condition.

While most of the laptops have been designed with the European or Western climatic condition in mind, this series, developed under the ‘Design for India’ program, has taken into consideration the Indian condition, where ambient temperatures are higher, said HCL.

“With the trend of computing devices moving towards notebooks, we have realized that there is a need for notebooks that are designed to meet the varied requirements and mode of the Indian market,” said Rajendra Kumar, executive vice president, frontline division, HCL Infosystems.

He said one of the key parameters in the Indian context is the thermals and temperature difference between the left and the right palm rest surface of the notebook.

And the new series has a lower temperature difference across the surface. Leaptop Series 39 has thermals that are within 6 degree centigrade, he pointed out.

The new series comes with a 14.1" wide screen and is powered by Intel’s Centrino and Centrino2 processor technology, and has a battery back up of more than four hours. HCL said the new series has taken into consideration the power situation in the country and the orientation towards the ‘Green’ initiatives too.

Optimized to reduce power consumption, Leaptop Series 39 is compliant to the Energy Star 4.0 Category A certification and consumes less than 1.7 W energy in sleep mode and 1W in stand-by mode.

Observing that HCL has always been at the forefront of bringing in technological innovation in the country, George Paul, executive vice president, marketing, HCL Infosystems said, “We are committed to bring cutting-edge technology products designed for Indian conditions.” He said Leaptop Series 39 is yet another step towards HCL’s ‘Design for India’ product strategy.

“With the largest manufacturing facilities in the country, today we are the youngest and the fastest in the country,” said George Paul. He said that tomorrow’s computing would be based on laptops rather than desktops.

The new series, at a price range of Rs.39,900 for the Centrino model and Rs.42,990 for the Centrino2 model, is available in both Windows and Linux operating systems.