It’s hard to tell what the Verzio folks were thinking when they designed the TruePad T50. After coming out with pioneering 3G dual- SIM handsets and an impressive PDA phone, they’d have to be barking mad to debut a laptop that looks so last season. With a gun metal-gray finish, lots of hard corners, noisy DVD drive, and a springy hard—touch keyboard, the TruePad seems out to spark a retro revolution in the age of jet black and vibrant primaries.

The sad part is that, like a stand-up guy with a lousy fashion sense, the T50 looks so outdated it may never get the chance to prove what an honest-to-goodness mid-range laptop it really is. Its combination of Core 2 Duo CPU, IGB of RAM, and 120(JB HDD is more than enough to let you multitask comfortably The 14.1-inch glare-type screen displays vivid colors and sharp detail without causing eye strain, and incidentally turns out to be a classy saving grace to the TruePad’s passé styling. The Wi-Fi receiver is very reliable. The built-in speakers are not only powerful, they also deliver a fuller sound than most laptops in the T50’s class.

 

For all its old-fashioned design, it does have the size, attitude and specs that it needs to feel right at home in a traditional corporate setting. Perhaps, in building the T50, it was the norm-respecting “classic gentleman†that the Verzio designers had in mind in the first place.

PROCESSOR : Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz

MEMORY : 1GB DDR RAM; 120GB SATA I-IDD

SCREEN : 14.1-inch WXGA (glare type)

CONNECTIVITY : 802.11 b/g. 10/100 LAN, Firewire

BATTERY LIFE : Over 2 hours with moderate usage

SIZEIWEIGHT : 336 x 236 x 26.5mm/2.5 kg

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