Think Asus Eee PC is cool? Well, HCL and Microsoft has teamed up to roll out as part of HCL’s MiLeap brand of HCL Leaptops. It will be running Windows XP Home, weigh less than 1kg, and have a 7-inch TFT LCD touch-screen.

The screen will be able to be rotated converting the notebook into a tablet, and yes, it’s a touchscreen, it will respond to a stylus and the software will include handwriting recognition software for taking notes. The whole system will be powered by an Intel ULV processor with Intel’s 945 GU Express chipset.

Other features of the notebook including a 1.3MP camera, 1GB of DDR2, touchpad, two mouse buttons, scroll, directional pads, dedicated softkeys for things like WMP, speakers, WiFi, Ethernet, and a full sized keyboard. This is shaping up to be the Tablet PC I’ve been dreaming of but with the price of a budget PC at about $425 when converted! This is certainly the cheapest Windows-based tablet I’ve seen so far.

Dell is commemorating Blu-ray’s victory by offering a Blu-ray playback drive in its super low price, 15.4 inch laptop, the Inspiron 1525. Starting at $880, you can watch BD movies on its screen (at 720p resolution) or send the video to HDTVs via HDMI. You will be seeing more Blu-ray read (not read-write) desktops and laptops in 2008 since the format war is over - HD DVD is defeated.

Note: The Blu-ray player disc drive is fully backwards compatible, and will play as well as burn traditional DVDs and CDs.

This LG XNote P300 laptop is aimed to compete with the MacBook Air and X300 in size and weight, but knocks both of those out of the park when it comes to performance. It weighs at a mere of 1.6 kg, that is less than both the MacBook Air and the X300, and it has a 13.3-inch screen. Read the rest of this entry »

Who’s the king of Ultra portable Laptop in the market? Well, Apple’s MacBook Air seems to lead by a nose in the recent MacWorld. However, according to Gizmodo, Lenovo will unveil their Ultralight Laptop X300 Thinkpad weights about 2.5 Lbs. The release date is unknown but we have the specs. It’s got a 13.3-inch LED backlit 1440X900 screen, and Intel Merom Santa Rosa Dual Core CPU (2.0 Ghz / 880 Mhz ), a 64GB SSD, up to 4GB of DDR2 PC2-5300 memory, and 4 hours of battery life. Read the rest of this entry »

This rumor comes from two different sources; the 4G wireless part is apparently from a preview site from Asus themselves and suggests that a new version of the Eee will have WiMAX. The other part comes from some sources that tipped off a Taiwanese paper that Asus was already manufacturing Eee’s with 8.9-inch screens instead of the 7-inch screens that are currently included.

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Toshiba has just released another Qosimo model known as the G40 97E - this certainly the King of Laptop class. This 17 inch screen laptop could be an interesting desktop replacement or a media center PC with Dual TV Tuner (yes, double TV Tuner) With standard features like: Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, 400 GB HDD, 2 TV tuners, and HD-DVD burner. It’s a great laptop that can do alot which is why the price would be well worth it!

Given that most of us probably won’t be able to afford a real Ferrari anytime soon, it’s nice to know that Acer are on the ball, providing us with a touch of that Italian magic, in the form of another Ferrari branded laptop.

The Ferrari 1100 is ultra-light with a AMD Turion dual-core processor, hard drive up to 250GB, Dolby sound system, DVD burner and 12.1 inch screen. There’s also a fingerprint reader, to keep all of your precious documents safe. No information yet on pricing or availability, sadly.

Here you are, the new LifeBook from Fujitsu, which is featuring the new SlimEdge design where a 14.1-inch display is strapped into a slim case that normally would house a 13.3-inch notebook… Pretty cool! Anyway, our new LifeBook S6510, also features a LED backlight display, a core 2 Duo T7700, wifi A/B/G/N, a web camera, an Intel GMA X3100 video card, 2GB of RAM, and 160GB of HDD. This laptop is not available in Japan; only in other Asian countries.

The official price is not yet released. Nice model huh? I mean the laptop