Sony’s newest model range in the school of Vaio is the NS, a 15.4″ skinny thing with Blu-Ray, 4 gigs of RAM and a “textured exterior” for your salad fingers. It’s also accompanied by the CS, a similar machine with a 14.4″ widescreen display and a 5.7lb weigh-in.

These machines have Intel Core 2 Duo processors, “ample storage,” and — as has been Sony’s thing of late — a reasonable price tag: a basic, no-frills NS will cost only $650. Vaio NS comes in blue, white and silver, while the CS comes in colors so strangely-named I can’t even discern what they really are: “Sangria, cosmopolitan, and dove.” It sounds like the weirdest legal practice this side of the Rockies.

The CS will start at $920, with BD models starting at $1,070.

“Style and function to fashionable consumers,” is the pitch, but at just a grand for a Blu-Ray laptop, frequent flyers of a staider sort might be the real market here.

Sony Vaio NS notebook with Blu-ray: [via] – [source]

The battle among gadget-makers has been intense over the past decade or so. However, we have come across very few instances when a brand goes head-on with another, especially in the marketing aspect. Samsung’s positioning for the X360 is a case in point. The product, apparently, has now taken the crown for the “lightest laptop,” at 1.27 kg. Samsung is making no bones about the fact that the X360 will be an Apple MacBook Air killer, which weighs 1.36kg, with a slogan that says “Lighter than Air.” However, the company has stopped short of claiming the “thinnest” tag as well. Released specs of the notebook include a 13.3inch SuperBright LED-backlit LCD, Intel Centrino 2 ULV processor (800 MHz front side bus), RAM support from 1GB to 4GB (DDR3 at 1066MHz), fingerprint reader for biometric security and most interestingly, a nano-silver ion particle treatment for the keyboard to keep bacteria at bay.

Wireless connectivity is enabled through 802.11a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.0 & EDR, as well as a wired LAN port. With a 7-in-1 memory card reader and 1.3MP webcam to boot, we have reasons to believe the X360 may after all give the Air a run for its money. Let’s wait and see.

Samsung X360 – a laptop that weights only 1.27kg: [via]

Super-gadgets are the style order of the future. And, Intel has pulled out an ace just when the techie tribe was getting a little claustrophobic about the constant repetition of technology and design. The company has unveiled a new concept laptop/UMPC, tentatively codenamed the UrbanMax. It reminds us of some of the sliderphones available in the market with regard to the design, but in terms of technology, we have enough reason to believe that the platform is peerless…at least for now! It features a resistive touch screen that can be tilted to suit the user’s convenience. Specs on this one are awaited, so watch this space.

UrbanMax – sliding laptop from Intel: [via]

Akihabara News got its hands on Fujitsu’s U2010/U820, its freshly-upgraded and tiniest laptop. The new model has an Intel Atom Z530 CPU clocked to 1.6 GHz, a gigabyte of RAM, a 5.6″ display set to 1280×800, WiFi and Bluetooth, and 5 claimed hours of battery life. Upgrade to the larger, pokey-out-the-back battery, and you’ll get 11 claimed hours.

The pros: it now has a proper tab key, in almost the the normal position, and the keyboard is clearly much-improved over the oddly laid-out U1010/U810.

The cons: The screen-bezel ratio is still gruesome. Built-in 3G, shown off at CES 2008 in a prototype, never did make it in. Which is a shame, because the OLPC-like antenna ears were cute.

Fujistu U2010 UMPC has 11.1 hours of autonomy: [via]

Lenovo’s newest entry to the ThinkPad line, the W700, is a behemoth: the type of laptop IBM’s own mob bosses might tie around a blog informer’s ankle before pushing him off a pier. Weighing 8 pounds, the W700′s is clearly aimed at mobile creatives: the 17-incher sports the first Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU and NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 chipset.

There’s also configureable RAID hard drive bays, up to 8GBs of DD33 RAM, an optional Blu-Ray Burner, an on-board color calibrator and even a built-in Wacom digitizer. And a num pad for playing World of Warcraft, natch.

Far too much laptop for most people, and expect battery life to be appalling, but for creative professionals who need to remain at top-efficiency no matter where they are, this looks great. Expect to pay creative professional prices: the minimum configuration of the W700 starts at $2,978.

ThinkPad W700 – another laptop launched by Lenovo: [via]

This computer looks like a normal book on the outside, but when you open it you are about to find a complete PC that includes everything a normal laptop would. It’s still just a concept but it would surely make a good impression, but also a statement about the society’s virtualization – something that not everyone would agree wit. But still it’s an interesting product. The Laptop Book, has a CD-Rom drive complete with CD, a keyboard that can be removed so as to access the battery, and a switch that turns off the screen light once the book is closed.

Immagine a thief breaking into your library looking for a hidden safe, and when he finds this susspicious book he realises it’s nothing but a PC… that would surely surprise him .

Laptop Book – Open to reveal a Computer: [Via] – [Yankodesign]

A rumor has been circulating the gadgets blogosphere for a couple of days regarding the launching of the new Asus Eee PC 900, the big brother of the original Asus Eee PC. Eee PC 900 would be getting an early launch next month in Asia but it looks like the US won’t have to wait very long either. Theres also some new info regarding the price, it seems the Asus Eee PC 900 will be available for 549$ and not for $500 as expected.

We’ll have to wait and see if people will buy it, but my personal opinion is that they wont rush to buy, its too damn expensive for its class.

Asus Eee PC 900 launching on May 12 in U.S. for retail price of $549: [Via Gizmodo]

As media files get bigger and more complex, users need more disk space. These days, most people use their desktop computer for increased storing capacity and the notebook just for its portability, but things are about to change.

A new generation of notebooks are coming from Asus, and the first of them the Asus M70 features a 1 TB hard drive, which is enough to store all your favorite movies in HD format(as long as you don’t have too many favorites ). Its the first ever notebook to feature a hard drive this big. Besides the 1 TB hard drive the M70 also features a 17 inch display and an ATI Radeon HD3650 with 1GB of VRAM and also Blu-ray support. All of these features are powered depending on model by a high-end Intel Core 2 Duo chip (T7500/T7700/T8100/T8300/T9300).

The important details such as weight, battery life, pricing and availability of the Asus M70 haven’t yet been made public, but i bet it will be a power hungry notebook that will cost enough to make you think twice before buying it.

Asus M70 notebook with 1TB hard drive: [Via CoolGadgets]

Featuring a “14-inch screen, AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor, 20 GB HDD and 512 MB RAM.”

It takes a special sort of someone to look at an old clunker of a Windows laptop and think, “I’ll turn that into a Mac,” but Phyro-Mane of the Case-Modder forums is apparently just that sort of person, and while his results certainly won’t be fooling any Mac faithful, they’re definitely admirable.

Phyro even went so far as to add a sheet of plexiglass to simulate a glossy screen and, naturally, turned to a Mac OS X theme for Windows XP as a finishing touch. If you want to give it a shot yourself, you can find all the details (in German) plus plenty of pics of the entire transformation process by hitting up the read link below.

Windows Laptop Turned “iMac Mini”: [Via]

Its more a strap than a case and it does basically what it says, it helps you carry your laptop. From the looks it doesn’t offer much protection, so i would not use this case if i want to keep my laptop safe. The price for one of these straps its $25 but i would suggest making one yourself it would cost you far more less.

LapStrap the simplest laptop case: [LapStrap] – [Via OhGizmo]