Flybook takes off in fat pig antidote

THE WORLD OF FLYING is a fascinating one. But if you're travelling economy class, thing tend to be rather complicated if you're above general airlines perception of economy class traveller. Which, as you probably know - is a 1.75m tall, 75 kilos heavy person? Sadly, yours truly is somewhat "above the spec" with 13cm more in height and around 16kg more in mass.

Intel, a company whose engineers have plenty experience in economy class came up with a design called "Intel Airline Friendly Concept". Basically, we're talking about a compact notebook with a movable screen, so that you can see the screen and adjust it once the fat ignorant pig sitting in front of you drives the seat back into the very screen of your notebook.

This is Dialogue's Flybook VM.

The notebook uses the Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz CPU in its Low-Voltage variant, 945G chipset, memory ranging from puny 512MB to battery-saving 2GB of DDR-II, a 60 gig hard drive and of course, a 12.1" LCD with a native resolution of 1280x768 pixels. Dual Layer DVD burner is also included, but the Flybook VM can be offered with the DVD-ROM or a combo drive, but who would want that...

Dialogue offers two battery capacities; a three-cell and a six-cell (each cell has capacity of 2600 mAh), and expected run-time of the notebook on batteries is up till six or seven hours, naturally with the six-cell battery.

We're guessing that Intel will be happy getting the concept out of the door, and we pretty much assume there will be a lot of similar products coming out in the following months.