what is a leaptop ?

Dear vadla, HCL recently launched some of its notebooks and desktops with a self-healing data recovery technology called EC2. This technology promises to restore your data within 60 seconds from a logical system crash or from virus or spyware attacks. We received an HCL Leaptop (no, it's not a spelling error, that's what they're called) with EC2 integrated in it. EC2 creates a snapshot of the whole system with user data and software installed on it. If the system crash happens or there is an accidental loss of data, users can recover the whole system and lost data to last snapshot created. Using EC2 is simple. Snapshots can easily be created through HCL EC2 client in Windows and restoration can be done through EC2 BIOS interface when you boot the system itself. You can schedule how often EC2 should take snapshots. This kind of feature can be very useful for notebook users, when they are travelling. It's very easy to use so even a novice can quickly learn it. To test EC2 capabilities, we first deleted Windows critical files like NTDETECT.COM, boot.ini, ntdlr etc and rebooted the laptop. EC2 managed to detect the Windows crash and restored everything in less than 30 seconds to the point where previous snapshot was taken. Then we formatted all partitions except boot-partition and rebooted. Once again, EC2 actually managed to recover the drive with data and took less then 60 seconds. A point to remember is that EC2 restores data from last snapshot taken only, so if any files were deleted before the last snapshot was taken, you won't be able to recover them. http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?artid=95967 If you want to know more about these you can go to http://www.techtree.com/India/News/HCL_Launches_Leaptops/551-71550-581.html

The first thing I thought of was a pelling error when I read the post, as I have never heard of leaptop. Reading the responses tho I now know what it is ^^, sounds very good and promising.