Toshiba’s Portégé R600 is a the type of executive notebook that dominated the ultraportable scene before the netbooks started stealing the spotlight. It is the sort of insanely light, ultra-thin notebook that has impressed consumers for so long… the type of system that helps us understand why a notebook might top the $2000 mark. The R600 is the lightest, slimmest, and arguably the best looking of the high-end 12-inch ultraportable market. Watch the video review. It goes into all the specifics about the ports, design, layout, and so on.

Sony took the wraps off its chic new line of mini notebooks- the VAIO® W Series. Featuring an ultra-portable design, the W Series is perfect for using as a secondary PC, in any room of the house, for surfing the web, checking e-mail, and social networking.

Toshiba’s entry into the U.S. netbook market soars past the competition with a stunning design, stellar keyboard, and the longest battery life of any netbook to date.

While desktop PC sales have been steadily declining, sales oflaptops have continued to increase over the past few years. However,although a PC can usually be given a new lease of life by easilyupgrading its core hardware, the same is not usually true of an oldlaptop. There are certain parts of a laptop that can beupgraded, if your laptop is over a certain age, but it will bedifficult, and in many cases impossible, to do much with it to improveits performance. As such, you may feel it's time to consign it to thebin. But wait, don't give up on it yet, as there are plenty ofways you can turn your old laptop into something far more useful again.The easiest way to get the most from your old system is to recycle theinternal hardware, such as the memory, hard drive and, in some cases,even the processor. However, this isn't the only thing you cando, as your trusty portable can even find a new lease of life when usedalongside other devices in your home. It can bring improved usabilityto games consoles in your living room, or even be used to enhance otherPCs that you or your family use. Whatever the case, there's no need toget rid of your old laptop just yet.

The Eee PC 1008HA is the first member of the burgeoning "Seashell" line, a family that already includes this machine and the to-be-released 1005HA. The 1008HA was originally unveiled in March at the CeBIT conference in Germany, but the ultra-slim laptop has just now started filtering out to the US market. Hardware wise, there's both a lot and a little that differentiates this from the pack of other netbooks out there. As for design, it's easy to see that few alternatives can measure up, outside of maybe MSI's X-Slim X340. The 1008HE is slimmer and more beautiful in almost every way than the competition. Internally, however, you'll notice most of the same specifications you see on practically every other netbook to emerge within the past six months. Thus, we don't really anticipate its performance being "off the charts."

Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G S, talked up its new iPhone 3.0 operating system as well as its Snow Leoparddesktop OS, and unleashed a slew of updated laptops. It even made twoof its MacBooks into MacBook Pro models (the only MacBook left is the$999 white polycarbonate model that was updated a couple of weeksback). It was a blizzard of announcements that had Mac fans in Apple heaven.Then there was the big news: In a very un-Apple like manner, the company dropped its prices on those laptops, the surest sign yet that, yep, it's a recession.In the past, Apple's M.O. has been to add features, bump upprocessor speeds, and boost RAM and hard drives in its new hardware --usually while holding the line on prices. This time it did all those andcut the bottom line. The top-end 17-in. MacBook Pro dropped from $2,799to $2,499, for instance, and the entry-level 15-in. model went from$1,999 to $1,699. The price drops ranged from 6.3% to as much as 28%.Now, that's a deflationary spiral I can appreciate -- almostas much as I appreciate the new 15-in. MacBook Pro that Apple passedalong for review purposes.

HP Mini 1000 Video Review

Samsung releases this slim high end laptop that looks cooler then the Apple Air laptop, and this one runs Windows Vista. But it is expensive.

HiVision makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out. Voice-chat, Skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support, Abiword for word processing. Automatic online software updates. Their current model is based on a public chinese low cost case mold design and is running on a MIPS processor, they may soon also support an ARM9 with DSP as the processor and they are showing their own nice looking case design molds. All running on smooth Linux interfaces. In this video, I got to borrow a review sample of the laptop overnight, and I try to show you all the browser and other software interfaces in this extended video review of this cheap MIPS based laptop. ARM and DSP is the way that I hope that most cheap laptops are going to be based on in the near future, Google will hopefully make a great Chrome browser for this kind of Laptop and hopefully that the geniuses at OLPC soon will announce that they will work to improve ARM and DSP based laptops in XO-1.5 and XO-2 designs.

Uni-V presents the UNIV100 50 laptop running Windows CE on a Samsung ARM9 based laptop with full DSP accelerated video codecs playback support.