To get to such a thin design - the PC-UM10 is just 20mm thick at its thickest point - a lot of connectivity has had to be sacrificed. There are no built in Bluetooth wireless, infrared or serial ports but you do get an integrated LAN and a modem port. To aid in its thin design the keyboard has been engineered so that it rises out of the system body when the lid is opened, but this does affect the feel of the keyboard in use; it's a little vague at times.

Storage is provided by a Hitachi 20GB hard disk, while the graphics are powered by a 4MB ATI Rage Mobility-M PCI chipset, which drives the 12.1-inch TFT show giving a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels with 32 bit colour depth. This show gives good contrast thanks to it's 'black panel' design.

The only features on the system body besides the keyboard and the Trackpad are the on/off button and the system LEDs, which gives the notebook a clean and uncluttered feel. The underside of the system features a hard reset switch. Our review model came with Windows 2000 with Solve pack 2 pre-installed but no software bundle was pre loaded.

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