Voodoo Envy 133 laptop is the world's slimmest

Sorry MacBook Air, there's a new thinnest laptop in town. Voodoo's Envy 133 is a tiny 17.9mm to Apple's lardy 19.4mm effort. Weighing a sprightly 1.5kg, the 13.3in model comes with carbon fibre casing in a variety of colours and hails from Voodoo's new Business division - all part of the takeover by HP (Voodoo founder Rahul Sood has a lot on this on his blog). More after the jump.

Shaking off it's gaming roots - but keeping much of the design element - it bristles with new features including a backlit keyboard, a power brick that doubles as a wireless router for plugging in at hotels and a 'gesture' touchpad with pinch control.

Inside is a Centrino 1.8 or 1.6GHz Core2 Duo processor, integrated Intel graphics, an undisclosed amount of RAM and a 64GB solid state drive or 80GB traditional drive.

Like the Air, it doesn't have an internal optical drive but it does come with a matching external one and two (yes two!) USB ports, including one that doubles as e-SATA for adding an external hard drive.

We're also intrigued by the 'Voodoo IOS', which allows the 133 to speedily boot up into a custom Linux shell with Skype and Internet for times when you can't be bothered waiting for Vista to load. Nice.

It'll be arriving in the US this summer, starting at $2,099. There are no details on any UK launch but it's likely HP won't want this one confined to the States for too long. And before you email in, yes we are aware that Sharp made the 13.7mm thick Actius MM10 in 2003, we're just not sure a 1GHz Transmeta Crusoe processor and 256MB RAM will cut it any more.

[ Voodoo]