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Believe it or not, Inhon has a wilder concept up its sleeve than the extra-light Blade 13 Carbon laptop. Its equally new Carbon Tablet at first looks like it could pass for an IdeaPad Yoga, but the non-display half has little to do with input this time around — besides USB 3.0 and Mini DisplayPort jacks, it’s mostly about giving some breathing room to the Core i3, i5 or i7 inside. Keep the Windows 8 PC closed and it runs in a slower but quieter mode for handheld use; unfold it for some serious desk work, however, and a cooling fan inside ramps up to run the processor at TurboBoost speeds. Anyone who wants more traditional interaction has to attach an optional, Touch Cover-like keyboard and trackpad combo. We don’t entirely grasp the logic when a convertible laptop might have done the trick, although estimated prices between NT $29,999 and NT $39,999 ($1,007 to $1,343 US) for the eventual launch in Taiwan will make it at least somewhat feasible to try Inhon’s latest design experiment.

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Have you ever heard of Inhon before? Neither have we, but it has come to our attention that this Taiwanese PC manufacturer might have some reasonable technological expertise up their sleeves, considering how the Blade 13 Carbon that you see above has emboldened Inhon to lay claim to the title of this particular notebook being the thinnest and lightest of its kind in the world, tipping the scales at a mere 870 grams while taking up just 10.7mm of space in terms of thickness.

If you need a point of reference, take into consideration Apple’s 13” MacBook Air, which was once the epitome of ultraportables, where that model tips the scales at a positively hefty 1.35kg (in comparison, of course), and measures 17mm at its thickest point. The Blade 13 Carbon from Inhon will come with Windows 8 as the operating system of choice, where it is powered by an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor, carry a 128GB or 256GB SSD, sport a Full HD 13” display, and 4GB RAM. It does not look like the Blade 13 Carbon will ever make its way to the US, although we do know that shipping of the Blade 13 Carbon will commence in Taiwan later this June from $1,350 onwards.

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Never heard of Inhon? That might change with the Taiwanese computer maker’s Blade 13 Carbon laptop, which it claims is now the world’s thinnest and lightest. Tipping the scale at 870g (1.9 pounds) and 10.7mm, the company says it undercuts NEC’s 12.8mm Lavie X by a whopping 2mm, while nipping the 875g LaVie Z by 5g. There are still weighty specs crammed into the package, however: a Core i5 or i7 CPU, 1080p screen, 128GB or 256GB SSD and 4GB of RAM. If you’re looking for that kind of unencumbered power, the Carbon will also lighten your pocketbook to the respectable tune of $1,350, while a dialed-back 1,600 x 900 fiberglass version — still radically lean at 12.6mm and 1,195g (2.6 pounds) — will run a grand or so. These models will arrive in Taiwan in June, with no sign that it’ll come to relieve us overburdened laptop users stateside.

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Source: Engadget Chinese