Now I’m a fan of pretty laptops. The Flybook VM from manufacturer Holbe Dialogue is as stunning as a Ferrari 308 GTS.

If you’ve owned (and I still own) a Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium you know how iconic certain laptop designs can be. It wont be long before these machines appear on 24 in the CTU office. This notebook is crying out for product placement.

This feisty testarossa boasts some impressive internals too. An Intel Core Duo 1.66Ghz processor and up to 2GB of RAM. The svelte device has enough space for a CD-RW/DVD player. Having looked on Dynamism.com, the device weighs in at a very portable 1.6KG. Ooh it’s nice. Reg Hardware covered the Flybook VM in the middle of 2006 where it was announced at Computex and later in the year mentioning that Intel were demo’ing a ’tilt and lift’ notebook screen.

But the thing that attracts me most to the Flybook VM is the absolutely fantastic design of the lid/screen. This short video shows how the lid opens and how the stem extends to give the screen more height in relation to the keyboard. Notebook users the world over know (I’m typing this on a laptop now) that they’re not good for your posture. Most people who use notebooks sit hunched over the PC their heads facing downwards towards the keyboard.

The unique design of the Flybook VM means that the screen is raised to be closer to eye level. This means that your posture will be greatly improved and you’re likely to get less neck strain.

As both home users and corporates move towards buying more notebook compputers than desktop computers (as this IT Week article from December 2006 reports) innovations like this will only serve to drive further notebook sales.

One day, all notebook computers will be built this way.

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