Well those crazy cats over at ColorWare have done it again. This time the MacBook Pro has been given a once over and now sports a choice of 24 colors. Only the 15″ for now, $2449 for the 1.83 GHz model and $2949 for the 2 GHz. Each one ships in two to three weeks after you order.

 

  

So you’ve got your hands on a HDTV and have signed up to Sky’s HDTV service, but still feeling like your not quite technalogically prepared enough for the World Cup? Well fear not because Toshiba has come to the rescue with their limited edition Toshiba Dynabook 2006 FIFA Word Cup laptop. Boasting a Dynabook TX base (1.6GHz Core Duo, 15.4-inch WXGA LCD, 80GB disk, 512MB RAM, and Harman & Kardon speakers), combined with a gold cover inscribed with the dates and countries of previous World Cup hosts/winners, loads of football based themes, and a serial plate to remind you exactly which of the 600 units to be produced you own. They’ll be shipping May 26 for around $1700. Because what could be more sporty than sitting on your arse watching the world cup on your HDTV, while surfing the net on your world cup laptop before knocking back a few ‘official sponsor’ world cup beers? 

 

  

Apple today unveiled the new flagship of the MacBook Pro line, a 17-inch, 1680×1050, 2.16GHz Core Duo model. The new model comes standard with 1GB of RAM, an 8X dual-layer burner and a 120GB 5400 RPM hard drive, along with a FireWire 800 port, for $2,799. Maximum RAM is 2GB, and Apple also offers a 100GB 7200 RPM drive as an option.

At the same time, Apple has removed the 17-inch PowerBook G4 from its lineup, leaving the 12-incher as the sole remaining option for customers willing to settle for last year’s model (or who want a smaller-footprint portable). The launch was timed to coincide with the opening of the National Association of Broadcasters conference, which begins today.

What do you do when you’re a little late to the party, and still want to make sure you catch a bit of buzz? If you’re Samsung, you don’t just announce that your Q35 is a Core Duo laptop; after all, other companies have been announcing their Core Duo rigs for months. You declare it the “world’s smallest” Core Duo box, and trumpet the fact that it weighs about 4 pounds, has a 12-inch widescreen display, and still manages to pack in a T2700 processor, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. There’s also a DVD burner, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet and Firewire. And, of course, since Samsung laptops aren’t sold in the US, we assume that within a few days we’ll hear an announcement from someone else for the “world’s smallest Core Duo laptop that you can actually buy.”

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LG has just unveiled their latest ultra-portable laptop in Korea,The specs are fairly decent aswell for what your getting,It has a Intel P-M ULV 773 1.3Ghz Processor,1GBDDR 553,HDD 60GB Hard Drive a 12.1 Inch WXGA 1280 Screen a 800Geforce Go 7300 64Mb and the Weight is 1.1kg.

 

After the recent colaboration between Asus and Lamborghini they have now announced the new VX1 Laptop that will run on a duo Core CPU.Available in both yellow and black, the Lamborghini Notebook Series is the ultimate representation of technology and automobile fusion and a true mobile computing revolution. With design details and special mirror painting finish,the Industrial Design team at ASUS has successfully produced an exceptional innovation that, with the look alone, exudes power, speed, strength and beauty.

“It seems to be more conjecture than anything, but AppleInsider has some rumoring from “people familiar with the company’s plans” that say Apple is planning a Front Row equipped “iBook” this spring. No word yet if the new iBooks will borrow any naming conventions from their MacBook Pro brethren, but the supposed 13-inch laptops will be borrowing just about everything else, including Front Row, the Apple Remote, a built-in iSight camera, and the Yonah chipset; though they assume the new laptops will be limited to the 1.67GHz Core Solo processors. They’re also saying the new consumer oriented laptops will retain a single Firewire 400 port and stay close to their current white-clad design, though supposedly Apple has been toying around with the idea of a black version, but no one has sighted such a version yet. Again, doesn’t seem like much more than some reasonable conjecturing, though the iSight and Front Row abilities sound like nice additions for laptops that are supposed to hit a sub-$1000 starting price point.”

“The United Nations has thrown its weight behind a project to place a $100, hand-cranked laptop computer in the hands of millions of schoolchildren around the globe.”

So isn’t it great that you can now challenge them to a game of Counter-Strike on your 10Ghz, 6GB RAM, 512mb 3D Graphics card? Well maybe not, but at least they’ll be able to have some of the luxuries we take so much for granted. Well done UN.

Sony has announced the Japanese release of 2 new PC’s based on the Intel Duo Core. They will be available sometime in February.The SZ series replaces the S series and will come with a 945GM Express or GeForce Go 7400 graphics card and a 13.3″ WXGA screen that uses LED’s on the high end models. the casing is made out of Carbon Black or Premium Carbon.The CPU’s range from a T2300 (1.66GHz) to a T2600 (2.16GHz).