Compaq Presario V6700TX

Compaq Presario V6700TX, available at a starting price of $790, equipped for your everyday work and entertainment needs and coming with Genuine Windows XP Professional, but of course you can install the operating system you are used with.
Windows XP Professional will work great with the Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 processor at 1.67GHz speed but you have a better option too, the Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 at 2GHz speed.

The notebook has a 15.4-inch Wide XGA display supporting high definition viewing and being based on the BrightView technology having a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.
There are two memory options, 1GB DDR II which works well with Windows XP or the 2GB DDR II module in case you need to run more applications or install the most demanding OS, Vista.

For the graphics, Compaq Presario brings the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 video card which allows you to watch HD movies and play your special video games.
It has broadband connectivity support and an option between Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG or Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG network Connection with Bluetooth.

All your data is stored on a 120GB 5400 rpm S-ATA HDD or on the 160GB version, depending on your needs and your final configuration, while you get also a Super Multi 8xDVD+/-R/RW Double Layer or a LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support, off course at a higher price.

The battery integrated is a 6-cell type and if you know what settings to do in the operating system control panel you will be able to work on this notebook for up to 3h30min, if not, the minimum operating time is of 2h.Additional elements include an ExpressCard slot, USB, Firewire, TV out, remote control receiver, a 5-in-1 card reader, and built-in Altec Lansing speakers

Compaq Laptop for $99

Circuit City will out do Wal-mart in the notebook pricing war this holiday season with a Compaq notebook for $99!

Of course, there's a catch - for $99.99 deal, you must sign a 12-month subscription to Vonage. The laptop is $299.99 without the 12-month Vonage subscription and $280 in instant rebate and $100 mail-in. Still cheaper than Wal-mart's $398 deal.

The Compaq Presario notebook features 15.4-inch widescreen with BrightView, Celeron M 420 processor (Wal-mart sells the model with AMD CPU), 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB hard drive, built-in wireless, and DVD/CD burner.

Currently, the notebook sells for $680. Circuit City will offer $280 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate ($680 - $380 = $299). The deal will begin during "Black Friday", the hottest shopping day of the season.

New Mike Ming Dells

Dell has made available some nice laptop cover designs based on the 15.4-inch Inspiron 1525 model. They were created by the designer Michael Miyahira from Brooklin, and the notebook design line was called Mike Ming Extreme Edition. It featured Sea Sky theme and Bunch O Surfers covers.Now, the same designer came up with other cool creations for the Studio 15 and Studio 17 Dell laptops, to offer the customers the possibility to personalize their new acquisitions.

The technology behind creating Dell's Art House series of laptops allows me to share my visual creations with people who are inspired by art and who want to express their own individually unique sense of style," says Michael Miyahira.

These Special Art Edition urban designs for Dell Mike Ming line have a fluid organic style and you can choose from Red Swirl, Seaweed or Sunburst. Dell Inspiron 1525 is again the base laptop configuration and it starts at a price of $799.

Sony VAIO Z

Sony launched a new laptop series called VAIO Z, creating a perfect equilibrium between mobility and performance via a compact design weighting less than 1.5Kg, a 13.1-inch display diagonal, a 12-layer miniaturized motherboard, and a durable carbon fibre construction resisting at drops from 72cm during operation and 90cm when powered down.

Its 13.1-inch X-black display features LED backlight, 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, super-slim bezel, and 1600 x 900 resolution. The Sony’s X-black LCD is a display enhancement boosting the brightness and contrast rendering rich colors with 100% fidelity. With the Stamina Mode option users can switch between 2 graphic chipsets, choosing either the 3D performance provided by the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS GPU, or the integrated Intel graphics. The latter option increases the battery life up to 5 hours, reducing the graphics performance when not required.

Design enhancements take into account the ergonomic aspect while using the stylish laptop, so the brush-finished aluminum panel surrounding the keys continues to form a comfortable palm rest.

Talking about performance this series brings, we have to mention that it comes with the WWAN technology (3G) for fast mobile broadband speeds reaching 7.2Mbps, thanks to the HSDPA technology. There is also the newest Intel processor technology powering these laptops, the Intel Centrino 2, which delivers increased performance and battery life simultaneously, supporting the upcoming wireless draft N technology.
The Wireless Wide Area Network is a wireless standard using technologies like WIMAX, UMTS, GPRS, CDMA2000, GSM, CDPD, Mobitex, HSDPA or 3G, instead of spread-spectrum or OFDM modulation technology based on radio waves, which is used by WLAN. To use it, the user needs a WWAN card for the notebook, as well as monthly usage subscription at a wireless service provider.

“This is the culmination of ten years of VAIO innovation,” said Hidetoshi Takigawa, Marketing Director for VAIO of Europe. “Incorporating feedback from our discerning and highly demanding customers, the VAIO Z embodies everything the brand stands for – cutting edge excellence in technology, exceptional ergonomics and bold, iconic design. This is a notebook everyone would be proud to own.”

HP Laptop Computers

"HP is creating notebook computers that captivate users with striking design and the right features to deliver a great user experience. Our new lineup further enhances our brand leadership with notebooks that are tailored for the ever-changing mobile lifestyle."

<-120x240 Vertical Banner - left->This is the newest announcement made by Ted Clark, senior vice president and general manager, Notebook Global Business Unit, Personal Systems Group, HP. The company has launched 17 new notebook models designed for both business and customer sectors, which were unveiled at Connecting Your World 2008 event in Berlin.

HP EliteBook is a premium notebook series bringing a variety of functionalities for personal use and performance requirements, in durable aircraft-style designs, while the other models sport sleek liquid-metallic HP Imprint 2 surface design.Thinking of removing all mercury from its screens by the end of 2010, HP laptop computers are built with energy-efficient features and offer the possibility to choose mercury-free Illumi-Lite LED displays.

Besides eco-friendliness, the new HP laptop computers are powered by the latest technologies such as AMD Turion 64 X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors, Intel Centrino 2 and Intel Centrino 2 with the vPro technology.HP

Pavilion Entertainment customer notebooks brings design enhancements and innovations such as the invisible chrome controls that light up like magic giving you access to HD TV, pictures, movies and music, via HP QuickPlay.

To add more style you can add the optional HP BrightView Infinity Widescreen with the matched keyboard model and touch pad. For hard drive protection the HP ProtectSmart is ready to detect drops and stop the hard drive from spinning, keeping this way the data stored secure.Another newly launched HP laptop computers series is the HP Compaq Presario with HP Imprint 2 surface finish, which brings optical drives, wireless connectivity, high-quality audio, built-in web camera and microphone.

Next comes the HP EliteBook line optimized for business professionals featuring the durable HP DuraCase brushed anodized aluminum exterior with magnesium alloy chassis. These 2.1Kg-notebooks come with HP QuickLook 2 software, HP SpareKey and HP File Sanitizer, along with shock-resistant hard drive and spill-resistant keyboard. The models are characterized by a 14.1-inch display with optional Illumi-Lite LED technology and up to 15 hours of battery life thanks to the optional Ultra Capacity battery.All these new HP laptop computers will be available starting July and the other lines included are the b series and s series designed for business and security needs.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

As the mini notebooks market requirements are growing continuously, largest companies are developing more and more ultra-portable solutions with design enhancements as well as built-in functionalities to provide excellent mobile entertainment experiences increasing productivity on the. Based on this fact, Dell launched a new mini notebook called Dell Inspiron Mini 9, optimized for web browsing, online shopping, chat, and file sharing.Coming at a starting price of $339, the model will be available in the upcoming weeks in the United States, Japan, several European countries, and online at www.dell.com/mini. You can choose between Obsidian Black or Alpine White colors, and Windows XP or Ubuntu 8.04 operating systems with the custom Dell interface, this one adding $10 more.

Dell mini notebook weighs just 2.28 lbs sporting an 8.9-inch LED display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, and a sealed keyboard, all integrated in a durable material. In addition there is Wi-Fi connectivity for hotspots, Solid State Drive storage, Bluetooth wireless for short-range transfers between compatible devices, built-in web camera with Dell Video Chat software and 4-way calling, as well as remote storage of 2GB expandable up to 25GB via the Box.net service, which is secure and supports your uploaded images, videos, music, and documents including presentations. This way you’ll be able to access your media from anywhere in the world and on the Dell mini notebook.With Dell Support Center you can use the special icon on the desktop to access the Dell service for getting fixes, upgrades and different tools, while the DellConnect Remote Assistance can diagnose and solve your laptop issues online

Dell mini notebook with dynamic and customizable user interface integrates by default an Intel Atom N270 processor with 1.6GHz, 512MB DDR2 memory, 4GB Solid State Drive capacity for your files, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, Base LCD Assembly sound, a 4-cell battery, and you can upgrade to the $449 configuration which has 1GB DDR2 memory, and 16GB Solid State Drive.

Notebooks introduced by Dell

They mentioned a new laptop technology called Dell Latitude On with lots of communication enhancements such as instant access to the emails, contacts and web, capable to operate for several days using a new battery technology. Next, Dell introduced new smaller power adapter about the size of a Blackberry smartphone but thinner, and it also announced breaking the 19-hour laptop battery life barrier with the E6400 model, via the All Day Battery mode setting, using a battery slice and a 9-cell battery. digitalNOMADS unveiled also the new Precision workstation with 1TB storage capacity and quad-core processing technology. Another important announcement was of the new keyboard models with increased ergonomics, extra durability, backlight and other new cool features totalizing 40 new attributes, making them the best keyboards Dell ever produced.

Dell Latitude laptops line, come in a few color options, Regatta Blue, Regal Red and Quartz Pink, with up to 19 hours of battery life from a single charge, and allow you to choose the one suiting your needs best, from ultra-portable models like the 12.2-inch E4200 with a weight of 2.2 pounds, to high-end advanced notebooks such as the15.4-inch E6500 designed to replace desktop computers and bring high-performance on the go.

Design enhancements of the new Dell Latitude laptops include a semi-rugged 14.1-inch model priced at $2,399, tested to meet Military 810F standards for dust, vibration and humidity, as well as full-frame magnesium alloy construction with all-metal hinges, the Dell ControlPoint accessing user settings for power management, connectivity configurations and security management in a single application, intelligent backlight for the keyboard adjusting according to the ambient light levels, intelligent security sub-processors with embedded non-volatile storage that centralizes and helps protect user credentials and security keys, and sophisticated keyboards with unique features described in the following video.

“The new Latitude laptops and Dell Precision mobile workstations represent the largest client product development effort in the history of Dell,” said Jeff Clarke, senior vice president, Dell Product Group. “We’ve invested more than 1 million engineering hours and the result is a family of head-turning products that are as solid on the inside as on the outside, with features that enable better security, manageability and productivity.”

The new Dell Latitude On-enabled notebook gives users instant access to basic applications including email, attachments, calendar and web, without booting into the system’s main operating system. Latitude E4200 and Latitude E4300, the upcoming models using this technology, provide up to 19-hours of battery life based on the dedicated low-voltage sub-processor and operating system.For highest mobile performance Dell introduced the 17-inch mobile workstation coming in cool orange housing with anodized aluminum chassis, and integrating up to 16GB of RAM memory, with graphics powered by a 1GB card. The processor model is, of course, a quad-core, while the storage capacity reaches 1TB on 2 drives.Dell Latitude E5500 is a 14.1-inch laptop available at a starting price of $869, which offers a cost-effective solution for every-day tasks.

Another innovation in Dell’s laptop range is encountered at the Latitude E4200, which comes with a halogen-free laminates motherboard, halogen-free chassis plastics and fan housing, packed in a 99%-recyclable material.

Until we’ll feature each of these new laptops from Dell, let’s see what other improvements are. Here we have external SATA drive connections, DisplayPort, USB PowerShare, wireless draft N support, mobile broadband connectivity, WWAN, Bluetooth 2.1, WiMAX ready, GPS, contactless smart card, next-generation SSD drives, and dual pointing devices.