HCL's ME 40, India's first eco-friendly 15.4-inch notebook with a spectrum of ME branded features has been introduced recently at a Polyvinyl Chloride free notebook under its ME series branding - HCL ME 40.

ME-40 is India's first eco-friendly notebook, which will be joining the existing league of ME-45 notebook which does have PVC contents in its body to a certain extent. HCL's 15.4-inch ME 40 notebook has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and is available at a niche price of Rs. 41,500 exclusive of taxes.

The new eco friendly version of HCL's ME 40 has been crafted and manufactured with eco-friendly materials doesn't have harmful components like PVC, thus making the product highly recyclable due to this concept, HCL aims to achieve the Green Computing concept in its computer designing. The 15.4-inch WXGA TFT LCD screen also supports 1280x800 Native resolutions.

HCL ME 40 is specified with 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 320GB HDD for storage and is preloaded with Windows 7 Professional. Other features of HCL ME-40 includes a 1.3 megapixel webcam, integrated 4-in-1 card reader, 4 USB ports and Bluetooth with the support of battery backup of 5 hours maximum. ME 40 will sport the One Touch Support feature for better compatibility and for faster data recovery as well.

For data security, HCL has offered Encrypt ME which encrypts the user data and 'LOCK ME' that locks the user data to make it safe against the theft.