Asus recently announced the M70 notebook, which combines a number of unusual features. The M70 is the first to offer a 1TB hdd (2×500GB), a Blu-ray disk player with a 1920×1200 resolution screen. The product is positioned as an entertainment appliance and described as having the ultimate high-def feature combo.
ASUS M70 Redefines Full HD [...]

A diner in Hong Kong artfully poses his brand new black Eee PC 900 with the main course. Still life with grouper. Fish, yum.
黒いEee PC 900

Trusted Reviews reviews the Asus Eee PC 900 & deems it to be a great value at 10/10 and assigns the thing an overall score of 9/10 - high marks indeed.
T-R liked almost everything about the Eee including the “superb” 8.9in screen showing 1024×600, the multi-touch touchpad, 20GB solid state disk (Linux version) and the [...]

It seems that IBM was testing out some Apple computers in the Oct-Jan08 timeframe to see how folks over at their Research Information Services dept liked them. Specifically, 24 Apple MacBook Pros were loaned to researchers who were asked to use them instead of their ThinkPad-issue notebooks, as much as possible.
The results? … an 86% [...]

Someone at the Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) spent the last 2 months working with an Apple MacBook Air & shares some thoughts.
The reviewer liked the Air’s size, weight & battery life and felt that the keyboard and the general user experience were nice.
The proverbial areas in need of improvement included connectivity, networking and, at times, [...]

Lenovo has just unveiled its IdeaPad U8 Mobile Internet Device powered by an Atom processor, at the spring ‘08 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) being held in Shanghai.
U8 features include:
connectivity via EDGE 3G WiFi and WiMAX
4.8-inch touch screen
optical mouse
one-handed operation (..provided you’re not a leftie)
Internet browser
built-in financial software
GPS
Office support
MP4 video
camera
300 grams

Acer has unveiled 2 of their new Gemstone Blue notebooks, the 16-inch model 6920G and the larger 18.4-inch 8920G.
Both have 16:9 full HD 1920×1080 displays for showing Blu-ray video, 5.1- channel sound and come with an unusual touch-sensitive CineDash media console for controlling media playback.
Full specs are here.
Acer Presents the Aspire 8920G Series: Design [...]

Panasonic announces a ruggedized UMPC version of their ToughBook series of computers.
This unnamed new ToughBook has a low-power Atom processor, an “Ultra tough design” (although Panasonic won’t say how tough), 5.6-inch LCD touch screen and a long-life hot-swap battery.
According to the press release, Panasonic expects the UMPC market to be strong at about 10x the [...]

Apple today announced both their software development kit and support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and other enterprise-oriented features at their iPhone Software Roadmap event.
Phil Schiller Apple SVP of Product Marketing talked about how Apple has been listening to enterprise customers and compiling lists of what is holding the iPhone back from being “huge in corporations”. [...]

It’s small, cheap, functional and cute. The Asus Eee PC 900 was revealed March 3 at CeBIT 2008 to contain a 1024×600 pixel 8.9-inch display, 8GB SSD, 1GB DDR2 memory, MMC/SD/SDHC card reader, 1.3MP camera and 802.11 b/g wireless LAN, and all for only 399 Euros.
ASUS Showcases Expanded Eee PC Family of PCs at CeBIT [...]