Fashion & Notebooks

Intel and Toray Ultrasuede unveiled Monday November 28 the “ultrafashionable” concept laptop PCs. The unique result of their collaboration is a laptop design that screams chic, featuring Ultrasuede® to deliver a unique and luxurious personal touch to mobile computing, along with the performance, mobility and wireless computing capabilities provided by Intel® Centrino® mobile technology.

gaming laptops

These ultimate gaming laptops have been described as “the most powerful notebooks ever created,” for many reasons. Both the m15x (pictured top) and the m17x (pictured bottom) laptops will feature Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processors at 2GHz. The 15.4-inch and 17-inch laptops are encased in a cool outer shell with either the embossed Skullcap or the smooth Ripley design, and they’re as pretty to look at closed as they are open. The Alienware m15x and m17x laptops boast NVIDIA’s brand new 512 MB GeForce 8800M GTX with absolutely best 3D graphics; 667MHz DDR2 memory; over 1080p video and high-definition audio; and dual hard drives with SmartBay or three hard drives with SmartBay respectively.

acer new

the 16-inch Aspire 6920 & 18-inch Aspire 8920. These belong to the new “Gemstone Blue” series of products and are first to feature 16″ and 18″ form factor. They are successor to the first Aspire Gemstone range, launched in June 2007. Staying true to the same tradition - new Gemstones also sport exclusive design, innovative textures (surfaces) and materials, Dolby audio enhancements

new touch screen laptops

the dual-display Asustek notebook and the One-On-One dual LCD display, called ‘Tenbuno.’ And, this Dual Touch Screen Laptop from Canova is another ultimate notebook design meant for the creative mind. The notebook features dual display with touch-sensitive screens, sketch pad, music score, graph paper, an electronic pen and a dedicated hardware for its smooth functioning.

Core 2 Duo MacBook is up to 39% faster than it predecessor.

that's pretty freakin' fast. Prices start at $1999 for the 15-inch 2.16GHz with 1GB of RAM and top out at $2799 for the 17-inch 2.33Ghz. The 15-inch 2.33GHz is $2499 and both 2.33GHz model ship with a whopping 2GB of RAM! That's double the RAM across the board. It's about time!
Apple says the new Core 2 Duo MacBook is up to 39% faster than it predecessor.

The Apple Store (US) is still down as I type this, but the apple.com splash page shows the MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo, as many of us suspected was coming when the store went down this morning.