If 2011 was remembered for shiny new tablets that made people part with their hard-earned cash, then 2012 may just be the one where the craze for these thin and light yet powerful and affordable ultrabooks takes off big time.

At the annual CES show just concluded earlier in the week, a good number of laptop makers joined the fray with their takes on what people would be carrying to meetings and classrooms in the coming months.

Perhaps having seen Asus, Acer and Lenovo whip up demand for such ultra-light PCs in the closing months of 2011, the likes of Sony, Dell and HP showed of their versions of the ultrabook at CES this year. Lenovo too came up with a quite surprising “yoga-like” ultrabook cum tablet.

Here’s a sneak peek.

Sony Vaio Ultrabook

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The venerable Vaio brand finally has an ultrabook join the family, after Sony showed off a Vaio Ultrabook at CES. Actually, “Vaio Ultrabook” is what journalists have called the device so far, as it is really still unnamed yet.

Little more is known about this new entry except that it’s a 13-incher with a glossy screen and has the typical chiclet keyboard common on many Vaios.

From what observers seem to have discovered, there seems to be a Ethernet port along with a VGA port, a sorely missing feature on some ultrabooks that lets you connect your machine to a projector.

Early photos from CES do seem to suggest that Sony’s new Vaio looks very much like a thin MacBook Pro, but that’s not a bad thing, considering many people buy Macs and install Windows and Parallels on them. Just watch out for lawsuits, Sony!

Dell XPS 13

Looking pretty too is Dell’s new XPS 13, the US laptop maker’s entry into the ultrabook market. What distinguishes it from others here is a machined aluminium finish, coupled with a carbon fibre composite base, which gives it rigidity while keeping relatively light at just 1.36kg.

It boasts a 13.3-inch screen (1,366 x 768 pixels), which seems like regular issue, but this is protected by a piece of hardy Corning Gorilla glass that will come in handy for a bit of rough and tumble on the go.

Like many ultrabooks before it, the XPS 13 will feature both Core i5 and Core i7 chips, and will sport 4GB of RAM as well as 128GB or 256GB solid state drives.

No indication of prices yet from Dell Singapore, but the XPS 13 is expected to go on sale in March. We expect this sleek-looking ultrabook to be quite popular this year.

HP Envy 14 Spectre
Perhaps the prettiest of them all is HP’s Envy 14 Spectre. It breaks the mould here by having a 14-inch screen instead of a regular 13.3-incher, yet manages to keep things slim and light by having an ultra-thin frame around the display.

It’s slightly heavier than the Dell at under 4 pounds (1.8kg) but for a laptop with a 14-inch screen, it is surely one of the lightest. Powered by Intel’s Core i5 and i7, and with 128GB and 256GB solid state drives to choose from, the Envy 14 Spectre really ups the ante for the already respectable Envy line.

No word yet on availability in Singapore, though the machine is up for pre-order in the United States. I’m sure many Envy users would love to see the Envy 14 Spectre come in black as well!

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga
Finally, we have the IdeaPad Yoga, which is a pretty innovative take on the increasingly common “transform” device. At first glance, it looks like another slim 13-inch ultrabook, but that’s because you haven’t discovered the hinge design here that lets the screen flip around all the way back – like a yoga master – to transform into a tablet.

Once it’s in this position, the pre-installed Microsoft Windows 8 OS automatically runs in tablet mode. Here, a 10-point finger or gesture input gives you the convenience of a regular tablet touch interface.

The screen runs at a sharp 1,600 x 900, according to a report by Geek.com. Plus, the “target price”, according to its video, is under US$1,200, which makes it very attractive when it is launched later this year with Windows 8.

A year of choices
The good news is, whatever form or shape you prefer in an ultrabook, you’ll have a lot to choose from in 2012. It has taken a while for PC makers to challenge Apple’s innovative MacBook Air, but the next 12 months should see a lot of them wowing back users with both sexy machines and an innovative edge provided by the laptop- and tablet-friendly Windows 8 OS.

If you’re a fan of Dell’s Alienware range of “bling-in-on” gaming desktops, you’d be happy to hear that the PCs now come with Intel’s top-end Core i7-3960X or Core i7 3930K six-core CPUs in Singapore.

On the new Alienware Aurora R4 desktop, the LGA2011-based CPUs are water-cooled, and factory-overclocked to between 3.9GHz and 4.1GHz as well, which seem alright, unless you’re the type who regularly pour liquid nitrogen into your PC for extreme speed. 

Among other goodies, the geeked out chassis packs in a motherboard with the enthusiast X79 chipset and up to 32GB of quad-channel DDR3 RAM.

Of course, we know graphics are the main thing for games such as Battlefield 3, so this Alienware lets you add on some of the most powerful options. Think of an Nvidia GTX 590 card, or two of AMD’s 6950s in tandem, pumping out the high-res eye candy on screen.

What we’d like, of course, is an option for a single AMD 6990 or two AMD 6970s in there as well. But for that, you’d have to build your own rig, instead of ordering Dell’s 20kg behemoth, because Dell Singapore doesn’t offer them as an option when we checked.

And prices? The basic S$3,499 version comes with an overclocked Core i7-3930K CPU, 4GB RAM (you’ll want more, really!), 1TB hard drive and an AMD 6870 graphics card.

We know you can get more horsepower for that price if you build your own geeked out rig from components at Sim Lim Square, but hey, not every gamer’s a builder these days.

Plus, you won’t get the bling, which comes in one of six impossible-to-miss colours. Or the trademark ALX chassis with an alien head at the front and “breathable vents” that open up.

What we really want is this particular model with the mirror finish (below), but somehow Dell’s website doesn’t have an option on this. We’ll check back and update this once we find out from Dell.

Asus and Acer may have been slightly earlier to the game, but the battle for the slimmest, lightest and most powerful laptop is just getting hotter with new arrivals like Toshiba’s new Portege Z830.

Shown to the media in Singapore last week, the latest in the Japanese laptop maker’s thin-and-light Portege line is just 15.9mm thin and weighs a feather-light 1.12kg. On that frame are a 13.3-inch screen and 128GB solid state drive, along with either an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 chip.

The Core i5 model will cost S$1,999 while the Core i7 model will go for S$2,599, when the laptop goes on sale at the Sitex computer bazaar on November 24, 2011 in Singapore.

As expected, Toshiba has pulled out nothing when it comes to connectivity. There’s USB 3.0, HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet LAN and even a fingerprint sensor for business users. What’s also included: the stiff Honeycomb Rib design on the new Portege’s magnesium alloy cover that protects against abuse (for those rough users).

The only thing that seems to compare unfavourably, at least on paper, against Asus’ highly-regarded Zenbook rival, is that the 13.3-inch screen on the Toshiba machine comes with only 1,366 x 768 resolution instead of the Taiwanese firm’s 1,600 x 900 (on high-end models). Even with that sharper screen upgrade, Asus’ Core i5 offering costs S$1,498, while its Core i7 option goes for S$1,998 – S$500 to S$600 cheaper.

But take note that these prices are will likely come with free bundles, like RAM or other upgrades, during the Sitex show. They may even drop if the competition is stiff enough.

Either way, there are now lots to choose from – besides the MacBook Air – if you want a full-powered laptop that’s also easy to carry around. And that’s good news for anyone who likes choice.

The ultrabook market just got more crowded with ASUS joining the party; the Taiwanese company officially jumped into the fray when it unveiled the super-thin Zenbook laptop here in Singapore on Tuesday.

The Zenbook sports a differentiating design with some remarkable innards while keeping the price relatively reasonable. But will this Windows 7 beauty stand up against its competition? We go hands-on to find out more!

Hardware & Design

The Zenbook’s form factor looks more or less identical to Apple’s MacBook Air: a sharp 0.11-inch edge on the front which slowly fattens at it slopes up to the 0.35-inch rear. It features a full-sized QWERTY keyboard that is pleasant to type on, and a large trackpad which supports multi-finger gestures.

But that’s about all the similarities there are in design.

While Apple went with a rough, brushed-metal exterior for the Air, the Zenbook is glossy and reflective. Its silver cover has a concentric circle design which radiates outwards from the centre, and is quite a pretty sight when it catches and reflects light.

The Zenbook’s base configuration for the 11.6-incher (1366 x 768) comes with an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid state storage, and sells for S$1,398. In comparison, a comparable MacBook Air will demand your S$1,588.

If you decide to plunk down S$1,998  for the highest-end Zenbook, you’ll get a 13-inch screen (1,600 x 900), an Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, 256GB of storage space and an additional SD card reader. In contrast, a comparable MacBook Air (with a lower-res screen, in fact) will go upwards of S$2,200.

ASUS SonicMaster

ASUS has been trumpeting the superior audio tech found in its laptops for quite a while now, and the Zenbooks are no different. It carries Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower brand, and the power of the music flowing from the Zenbook’s tiny speakers took us completely by surprise.

However, ASUS demonstrated the speakers with largely violin pieces, so we couldn’t get a sample of bass performance. Nevertheless, the sound quality is a far cry from the VAIO Z’s disappointing speakers.

First impressions wrap-up

Ultrabooks might have been slow to take off, but if the Zenbook is any indication, we haven’t seen anything yet. Beating Apple both at configuration and price, ASUS is giving traction to Intel’s ultrabook vision and providing for consumers a credible ultrathin alternative to the OS X universe.

This story first appeared on Techtalk, our technology content partners at Yahoo! News Singapore

Gamers and road warriors have some new toys to look forward to this November. Samsung has released their new Series 7 Gamer and Chronos notebooks into Singapore – just in time for the tons of new games coming this Christmas.

The Gamer is loaded with sick specs, beginning with an Intel i7 quad core chip with 8GB of RAM, up to 16GB.  More interestingly, it comes with one of the most powerful graphic cards on the market – the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5 with DirectX 11 support.

As if that was not enough, Samsung also has added an extra 8GB to the notebook through its ExpressCache system, which effectively acts as an extra 8GB of flash memory on the motherboard, allowing for faster caching that translates into faster startup and application launch speeds.

The on-board 1.5TB storage space offers lots of room for plenty of games, which is exactly what the Gamer is primed to do. Even the keyboard, with its U-shaped key caps and backlit controls, is primed for gaming.

Users can toggle between different performance modes. The Gaming mode boosts CPU performance to its limit, while the Balanced mode is what you’d likely run for everyday applications. There is also the Library mode, which keeps the laptop running quiet, and the Green mode which aims to use as little power as possible to keep the battery running longer.

With a 17.3” SuperBright HD 3D display, gameplay graphics on the go will not be visually lacking. Other essential laptop paraphernalia, such as a Blu-ray drive, 2.0 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth 3.0 and stereo speakers are included in this 3.8kg gaming machine.

For those interested in a desktop replacement that can game, the Gamer is retailing for S$2,899.

And as for those who want a mobile, portable laptop that doesn’t skimp on speed and power, the Chronos is a worth checking out.

Coming in 14- and 15.6-inch versions, the Chronos offers either an Intel Core i5 (for the 14”) or an Core i7 (for the 15.6”) chip packed in a tiny form factor that weighs only 1.95kg and 2.3kg respectively. The aluminium chassis is a boon to those who require durability on the go, and its weight and thin form make it a great laptop to grab and go.

Samsung claims a battery life of up to 8 hours on a single charge. Coupled with their Fast Start technology that enables a 2-second restart time and a 19-second boot up time with Fast Boot, the Chronos is a pretty speedy device.

Graphics are also not compromised despite its size factor, with a dedicated AMD RadeonTM HD6750M graphics card taking advantage of Samsung’s HD screen that features a SuperBright 300 nit brightness, 16 million colors and an anti-reflective screen.

Available in mid November, the Chronos will retail for S$1,688 (14”) and S$1,988 (15.6”). Hit the pictures below for full spec tables.

Let’s start by getting the price of this state-of-the-art laptop out of way, because S$3,999 is certainly not everyone’s idea of how much a good laptop should cost.

No, not even with the full works – a Core i7 chip, 8GB RAM, a 256GB solid state drive – encased in an incredibly thin and light frame weighing just 1.165kg, plus a separate desktop dock that contains a Blu-ray drive and a handy AMD 6650M graphics card.

Considering how laptops are costing less by the day, I’m not sure how many of the new Vaio Z – which costs twice as much as many albeit lower-powered rivals – will get sold here in Singapore.

But what makes this Sony machine so impressive is that it might just herald a new generation of devices. While the previous Vaio Z was a well-built, fast machine for the business user, the new incarnation is a whole new class of device altogether, in that it is both a PC on the go and on the desk.

I’m surprised no one has thought of doing this before, really. Many users these days try to bridge the best of both worlds that a laptop and desktop offers us by hooking up a large-screen monitor, keyboard and external drive to our laptops once we reach our desks. But almost always – other than with humongous gaming notebooks – graphics on laptops really suck.

Answering that need, the Vaio Z comes with an external graphics card that you can easily plug in and boost the graphics performance on your machine. Once you plug in the Power Media Dock, the faster AMD 6650M graphics automatically switches from the onboard Intel HD Graphics 3000 chip that offers power-efficient usage on the go.

It’s also nice to know that this dock comes with a Blu-ray drive, and an array of ports including a couple of USB 2.0 ports and a USB 3.0 port as well as a Gigabit Ethernet port, an HDMI connector and an analogue VGA link. Instead of those ugly docks of old, this actually adds more than the boring stuff – it brings desktop performance to your laptop.

From my tests, hooking up is mighty easy. The only thing that Sony warns you not to do is to unplug the dock when you are running a graphics intensive program, which may suffer as a result of going back to the low-end graphics on the laptop itself.

Essentially, what you need is a monitor and keyboard and you’ll have two machines in one – an attractive proposition for the business user.

The main unit itself, of course, is nothing short of impressive as well. Never mind that this is a machine with a powerful Core i7-2620M chip, 8GB of RAM and a zippy 256GB solid state drive to rival what you get on the fastest desktops. This svelte machine also comes with a display that will make other laptops green with envy.

On the 13.1-inch screen, Sony has packed in an enormous amount of pixels – and detail – in the 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. If that number looks familiar, it’s because the same amount of detail is packed into TV screens as big as 55 or 60 inches.

What this means on the Vaio Z is that text is sharper than almost any rival and pictures are displayed with pinpoint clarity. You also see the “full picture” in terms of the amount of data to be displayed, since the screen is capable of showing entire windows without needing your to zoom out and scroll.

The downside, of course, is that text can be small to read. This can be rectified by simply switching up the zoom – once – for your icons and text. But in my two weeks using the Vaio Z, I never had an issue with the higher resolution. My eyes loved the greater detail on display.

I’m also impressed by the portability of the Vaio Z. I teach part-time at the National University of Singapore and anyone who walks up the hill regularly from the carpark to the Arts Canteen (called The Deck now) will tell you it is quite a steep climb, especially with a laptop on your back.

Those two weeks I walked up the hill with the Vaio Z, I didn’t need to bring my usual Crumpler laptop bag – I simply walked up with the laptop in my hand, tucked along with some files. The climb was a breeze, compared to when I carried my 2.5kg  HP Envy 14 with me.

The other thing about the Vaio Z is its speed. The SSD under the hood is one real monster. Sony says the machine will boot up in 15 seconds or less. I can say safely it’s often less than 10 seconds. I almost never powered off the machine in the two weeks I used it because it took mere seconds – under five, to be sure – to resume from hibernation after I had closed the lid each time.

The battery life on the standard power pack is also surprisingly good. I did not manage to do the usual drain tests, but from my everyday usage, this is what I found out: I could use it for a couple of hours in class while jotting down notes, then put it to sleep for a week (apart from opening it up occasionally to surf the Web at home) then still use it for another couple of hours the next week, before it finally gave up.

Beyond the power-packed performance, there are many nice touches on the Vaio Z that make it a no-holds barred premium laptop.

What impressed me: the lightweight but sturdy case reminiscent of older Vaio Zs, the textured touchpad giving you a better “feel” when moving your cursor around the Windows 7 desktop and the wide array of ports on the slim chassis. These include USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, an HDMI link and yes, regular LAN and VGA ports. Take that, proprietary Apple connectors!

One really interesting feature I should single out is the way the laptop hinge pivots to give you an elevated keyboard when you open up the clamsell. The hinge actually pushes the main chassis up at an angle instead of just staying put on the table like on most laptops. Speaking of the keyboard, the keys are short-travel, or shallow, chiclet keys, which I’m not a fan of, but fortunately, they seem quite easy to type on, compared to, say, Apple’s keyboards.

What can Sony improve? Obviously, the Vaio Z should have a bigger trackpad. The current one is mighty small, even given that this is a small laptop. Though it is very sensitive, it still doesn’t feel as accurate as what you find on Apple’s Macbooks, which are the industry’s best.

But that little gripe would not be a deal breaker, of course. For most users, the biggest obstacle is that sky-high S$3,999 price. At a time when corporations are careful with costs, it must be a challenge to convince the bean counters in any company to okay the purchase of a Vaio Z, never mind a fleet of them for a department.

The task is made even harder when even a fully-spec’d 13-inch MacBook Air with a 256GB SSD will likely cost less than S$2,500. Sure, this may not be an apple-to-apple comparison, but think of how you can spend the rest of the S$1,500 saved from buying a Vaio Z on a desktop or a really fancy monitor if you want.

Then there are the so-called ultra-books from other PC makers. These MacBook Air rivals, like the Lenovo U300, will cost around the price of the Apple favourite and offer almost the same power as the main Vaio Z unit. Okay, they won’t have an external media dock and may not always be built as solidly, but to many users, they make the Vaio Z look like something from the old era of really expensive corporate laptops.

What then do you make of the Vaio Z? It probably won’t sell as well as many of its cheaper rivals, but I suspect folks who want one handy machine for both on the go and desktop uses will buy into this class of all-in-one devices.

Should you buy it? I’d say no if you are looking for comparative performance versus price, in other words, value. But if you are after the best all-in-one portable and desktop machine out there, there’s nothing like it now.

Every once in a while, an iconic device comes along and redefines the space that others compete in. The MacBook Air, for example, offers great value in an era where cloud computing lets you take the computing off your mobile device and focus on things like small-capacity but speedy SSDs to fire up apps in a jiffy.

As for the Vaio Z, it could well be the first of a new breed of devices that will make you think twice about buying a desktop in future. It’s an all-in-one machine that gives you the best of both desktop and mobile worlds. The current iteration is too expensive, but I’m looking forward to cheaper versions of the Vaio Z concept.

Unless you’ve been living in the deep recesses of a Linux terminal somewhere in Antarctica, you would know that Apple has released the newest version of their operating system, OS X Lion, ahead of schedule. But it’s not Lion in which I’m interested.

Along with new software comes new hardware, and Apple has upgraded the MacBook Air to become more powerful than before. They’ll be phasing out the iconic white MacBook a little down the road. For all intents and purposes, the MacBook Air is now Apple’s most consumer-ish offering.

Apple has swapped in Intel’s Core i5/i7 chips, added Thunderbolt connectivity, a full-sized back-lit keyboard and their flawless multi-touch track pad, and promised that battery life would still be excellent. The design is as dead sexy as ever, and even the most hardened of Apple-haters cannot look at it without drooling.

One can say a comparative Windows laptop still offers better value, but to many consumers, specs don’t matter. As long as the computer boots up, lets a user do what he/she wants without getting in the way and then shuts down perfectly, it’s a good computer.

With just S$1,288, you can be the owner of a cool Apple laptop, and that’s all the reason many people need.

This is undoubtedly going to be something PC makers will strive to emulate in the coming months. In fact, they have started working on this way before the new MacBook Air – earlier this year at Computex, Intel unveiled what they call the “ultrabook” concept: thin, elegant and cost-effective machines that are not underpowered in any way.

Take, for example, the ASUS UX21, a gorgeous machine that a spec-chaser like me will pick over the MacBook Air any day. Ultrabooks are designed to run Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors, but since those won’t be due until the first quarter of 2012, the UX21 is running the latest Sandy Bridge processors.

And don’t think for a second that Samsung will rest on its Series 9 laurels, the highly competitive Korean company will surely have its answer to these developments with new tricks up its sleeves.

The stars are aligning – solid state drives are becoming more reliable; chips are becoming smaller and faster and more power-efficient; and manufacturers are perfecting their art of hardware design. Laptops seem destined to go the way of the thin, light, and user-focused MacBook Air, while high-powered notebooks will be relegated to a more select market.

Apple has played a major part in this; it understands that sex sells, and the MacBook Air is sexy. With the new model, the ultrabook concept will really take off. Don’t be surprised to see even more laptop makers pushing out their own forms of super thin form notebooks this year.

Apple’s iMac has just got a much-needed speed boost from new Intel quad-core chips to add more brawn to the eye-pleaser. Going from S$1,648 at the Apple store here, these Core i5 and i7-equipped machines will enable users to multi-task better than its slower dual-core predecessors.

The new models also come with Thunderbolt, a new interface which offers much faster connectivity than the common USB port now. As you’d probably have known, Apple was the first to release Thunderbolt on the recently-launched Macbook Pros – now, it can claim it’s the first with a desktop computer.

Like the Macbook Pro refresh recently, the new iMac stays pretty much the same on the outside. One notable feature though is its enhanced HD camera that now lets your friends see you more clearly on video chats if they have the bandwidth to support the high-def video.

The 21.5-inch iMac is available in two configurations. One has a 2.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, AMD Radeon HD 6750M and 500GB hard drive for a suggested retail price of S$1,648. Another features a 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, AMD Radeon HD 6770M and 1TB hard drive for a suggested retail price of S$2,048.

You can also configure a more powerful Core i7-based machine through Apple’s Mac store.

As someone who had just recommended an iMac for his wife recently, I can say this update should have come sooner. The older iMac, at least the most basic model, is fast enough for surfing and opening the odd Office document, but can struggle if you fire up several demanding programs at one go.

Thus, at S$1,648, the new entry-level quad-core iMac looks attractive to folks who want an uncluttered look. That’s assuming you are okay with using Mac OS X, of course.

Following in the footsteps of rivals Apple and HP, the Japanese PC maker unveiled on Thursday a lineup of Lifebook laptops refreshed with Intel’s Sandybridge CPU and chipset, along with a new gaming notebook boasting a generous 17.3-inch screen.

But while the souped-up hardware promises to be less power-hungry and run faster at the same time, notebook fans will be disappointed that Fujitsu has kept to the shiny and somewhat unattractive design for its top-end SH761 laptop.

Since the phasing out of the older, better S series, which featured all the bells and whistles like a near-borderless screen (and which I am using to type this article), Fujitsu’s premium models have, in my opinion, not managed to liven up things with new features or retain the good stuff that made the old S series so good.

Sure, the new model, the S$3,488 SH761 shipping in April 2011, is no slouch. Within that light 1.6kg frame is a speedy Core i7 2620M CPU, 4GB of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce GT 520M graphics chip and a 640GB hard disk.

More importantly, on this 13.3-inch model, is a battery that packs no less than 6,200mAH of juice, and promises 5 hours of usage when run at the most taxing, maximum performance mode (under the Bapco MobileMark benchmark test). There’s also a screen that promises a “SuperFine” 1,366 x 768 pixels.

Yet, there is something missing here. The Fujitsu design looks a little dated these days when chiclet keyboards and large touchpads are the rage among new laptops like the Apple MacBook Pro, one of this Fujitsu laptop’s main rivals.

Even Lenovo Thinkpad laptops, which feature a decades-old and hardy design loved by corporate travellers, now come with chiclet keyboards. Fujitsu’s latest S (or SH) series is less than three years old and should have incorporated the newer designs favoured by users who now compare every new laptop with the MacBook series.

I’m afraid I’m not upgrading to the new Lifebooks from my existing S-series Lifebook, which I recently souped up with a solid state drive, and is running fast as lightning despite almost three years into the game.

Among the other Fujitsu releases today, what’s perhaps more interesting is the S$2,988 Lifebook NH751, which signals the company’s foray into gaming notebooks.

With a quad-core i7-2630QM CPU, 8GB of RAM, an Nvidia Gefore GT525M graphics chip and a 640GB hard disk under the hood, it should give gamers a powerful alternative to gaming notebooks such as Toshiba’s flashy Qosmio. Also, like its Toshiba counterpart, the Fujitsu machine is not really a laptop, as in you probably won’t like 3.7kg sitting on your lap for long.

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