SAMSUNG JOINS THE PARTY LEAGUE

Montevina-based notebooks are gradually but certainly beginning to dribble out, and Samsung's the newest to join the gathering with an innovative Aura machine and the completely new-fangled Eclipse line. The innovative R510 Aura sports a 15.4-inch display, 2.53GHz T9400 Core 2 Duo on the Montevina 1066MHz bus with incorporated X4500 graphics, 4GB of RAM, a dual-layer burner and a 320GB drive in a 5-pound wrap up, while the innovative Eclipse R710 17-inch desktop replacement sports a 2.53GHz P9500 Core 2 Duo and graphics acceleration handled by 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics in a novel container design with colorful accents.

HCL JOINS FORCES WITH MICROSOFT TO MAKE A CHEAP NOTEBOOK

HCL and Microsoft team up together in a dual combo effort to create an ultra-cheap ultimate notebook. HCL and Microsoft have joined up to produce the "world's cheapest Windows laptop." That’s what the company claims. HCL, a firm that is based in India, has lately triggered a team-up along with Microsoft to design what they portray as “THE worlds cheapest notebook." They won't give an precise price as, but have not yet affirmed the machine is called Mi-Leap H, and will house a 7" swivel touch-screen, and powered by the Intel processor, Intel 945 GU Express chipset for the mother board, 1GB of RAM for quick clocking, 30GB hard drive enabling decent memory, coupled with 1.3 megapixel webcam, integrated Wi-Fi, and will utilize XP as it's main OS.