NEC’s LaVie T

It is amazing the capabilities being shoved into a laptop’s frame these days. NEC’s new machine the LaVie T is very interesting in that it is a high definition laptop with real-time MPEG2 decoding/encoding and the HD VISITAL engine.

From Akihabara News:

The LaVie T just got, on top of its real-time Mpeg2 decoding/encoding card, the HD VISITAL engine, already implemented in desktop PC’s. This PC with HD TV tuner is now capable of displaying videos from the TV tuner in HD. As usual at NEC’s, the PC comes with “SoundVu” where the entire screen is the speaker of the PC. The other specs are as follows: 15″ WXGA (1280×800) screen, 160Gb HDD, +-DL burner, Pentium M 740 and 512Mb of RAM (ext. to 2Gb).