It’s been almost a year since the original Asus Eee 701 appeared stateside, making traditional ultra-portables look fat with its size and weight, sending prices plunging with its $400 price tag, and triggering a landslide of imitators. In that time, many have tried, but few have succeeded in one upping Asus at its own game. The Wind is MSI’s freshman effort in the emerging subnotebook genre, but the company has managed to run with the best of them by ... Read More

Logitech has just released a new wireless mouse called the V550 Nano. Which uses a tiny USB receiver that you can leave plugged into your notebook USB port without worrying about it snapping off. Also, you can dock the mouse to your notebook using the provided clip that you see there. Its apparently easy to attach and easy to remove, although I'm not sure what kind of stickum is used to provide said adhesion. Clip-and-Go dock: Allows you ... Read More

Cars and laptops have merged to produce a rather tasty laptop treat for those who can afford a new computer in the region of £10,000. The car in question is the Bentley, the laptop is the ever plush Ego - both of which are associated with high class-ness, extravagance and plenty of 'look at me, look at me'. Normal folk, don't fret, we hear Asus are giving the Eee PC 701 a makeover. A luxury product boasts luxury production ... Read More

Toshiba’s latest business notebook, the M300, won’t blow your hair back with whiz-bang features and record-shattering performance, but it’s a very solid package that covers all the basics one needs in a laptop that’s somewhere between an ultra-portable and a desktop replacement. This 14.1” notebook is tastefully appointed in a Titanium Silver finish, weighs just 5.2lbs, and has one of the best keyboards we’ve ever sampled in a notebook. Though its trialware issues and long boot time are easily ... Read More

Amex Digital—builder of media centers and the occasional sound card and Skype handset—has announced its new PD-K06e Portable Super Multi Drive, a slim, portable bus-powered DVD burner aimed at folks carrying so-called "netbooks" and other ultra-portable notebook systems that lack a DVD burner of their own. The PD-K06e operates off power from any available USB port (or from a 5V DC power supply), and supports 20× DVD±R write speeds and 10× write speeds on dual-layer media. The units sports ... Read More

Toshiba will present its Qosmio G50 and F40 laptops that feature the chip SpursEngine SE1000, which has four of the 'Synergistic Processing Elements' from the Cell Broadband Engine processor, in July in Japan. The PlayStation 3 runs the Cell chip that has eight of the SPE cores and a Power PC main processor. These SPE cores implement the heavy number-crunching, but we get an outstanding result - the console's graphics are excellent. The laptops' chip will perform its functions in ... Read More

So your router is boring, join the club. It doesn't have to be though and you can be the talk of the router world with your very own personal d-link router skin. "D-Link and Skinit now offer customers the option to customize their routerswith some 3000 designs, including fashion designs, sports teams, colleges, tattoo art, initials, symbols, and corporate logos, as well as the ability to import a personal photo using the Skinit custom design tool." How easy is it? ... Read More

There's no word on where the joystick is located but I think Designer Erik De Nijs has just released the geekiest set of pants in the history of mankind. Dubbed Beauty and the Geek Jeans they let any user plug into a computer and utilize a keyboard, mouse, and speakers. Everything is built right into the pants. Not sure where to file this one so I will put it in the laptop section, it seems to be the most fitting. ... Read More

It may be small but it packs a pretty good punch. As the name would suggest the HP Mini-Note is small but doesn't lack in any power. It's small enough to take anywhere you need your laptop or notebook and has enough whizz to it to get the job done. Starting at 2.63 lb/1.19 kg and only 1.05 in/33 mm thin, the HP 2133 is designed to go where you go without weighing you down. Don’t be fooled by its ... Read More