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 [...]

E-Lead Electronic launched it’s small-ish Noahpad UMPC late last year, made its debut at CES 2008 and the thing is making an appearance at CeBIT 2008.
The Noahpad has a 7-inch LED-backlit screen, runs on Ubuntu 7.10, 512MB memory, a 30GB HDD, a 0.3MP camera and 802.11 b/g for wireless. It positions itself as a [...]

Dell launches the Latitude XFR D630, a ruggedized notebook that’s 23% more rugged than the wimpy Panasonic CF-30.
Conforms to MIL-STD 810F so you just know its got to be good for those tough budget meetings at the office.
Dell Latitude XFR D630 Fully-Rugged Notebook - Dell spec sheet

CeBIT 2008 starts today & goes until March 9. Gigabyte will be showing a number of new MID and UMPC devices including the M528 and the M700.
The M528 is classified as a Mobile Internet Device and has a 4.8 inch 800×480 resolution touch screen and a slide down QWERTY keyboard. It comes with GPS, [...]

Will It Blend hasn’t stepped up to the plate yet, but somebody going by the nickname nakedmac has provided the next best thing…a stripped out disassembled Apple Time Capsule.
The TC is revealed to contain a 1000GB 3.5-inch Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 model HDS721010KLA330, with a SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface, 7200RPM and a 32MB buffer. Hitachi identifies [...]

The iView curved monitor, designed by Nuno Teixeira, is both compelling and definitely not post-iconic…a kind of stretched and curved double iMac all-in-one desktop computer.
The LCD iView, as it’s officially called, is unfortunately just a concept and so not many details are available. The iView has a curved panoramic double LCD screen on the front [...]

The Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad went out to their local Apple Store in Ginza, Japan, and purchased an Apple MacBook Air notebook, with the intention of seeing how it works.
True to their name, the NETS did indeed disembowel the MacBook Air, and were kind enough to share their findings and observations.
In brief, they weren’t impressed. [...]

Technology journalist Walt Mossberg reviews the soon-to-be-available Lenovo ThinkPad X300 notebook computer. In sum, Walt likes the thin (0.73-0.92 inch) ThinkPad calling it impressive, solid and innovative and perfect for many mobile PC users.
WM dings the X300 for its small (64GB) solid-state-drive, relatively low battery life and the big price ($2476-$3000). But he does go [...]

Here’s a link to a rare video of an exploding notebook, possibly an LG XNote Z1.
Laptop Battery Explosion - nocutnews.co.kr, 2008/02/12

Lenovo has a new super-thin notebook in the pipeline, the ThinkPad X300. Walt Mossberg got a hold of one & found that it’s like Apple’s MacBook Air in that the X300 is quite thin, has a 64 GB solid-state drive and a 13.3 inch LED-backlit.
The X300 includes some of the features that the MBA [...]