The initial Bamboo laptop did not quite have the trend-igniting power Sony wanted it to have, but with the most recent upgrade the second generation Bamboo definitely is ready to compete. The brown bamboo exterior still oozes a sleek and eco-conscious aesthetic underpinned by the Super Hybrid Engine technology that leads to ten hours of battery on one charge. The LED backlight 14-inch U43SD will fulfill some hardware demanding tasks with ease as it is available with Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge Core i3 and Core i5 processors, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M graphics with 1GB DDR3 of RAM, up to a 750GB hard disk at 7200rpm, USB 3.0 and a conference-adequate 2 megapixel camera.