Dell says the people have spoken, and they want their Linux. The personal computer giant announced on its Web site this week that it will soon begin offering Linux on select desktop and laptop PCs.

The decision comes after a month-long Dell online survey in which more than 70 percent of the respondents said they would use a Dell system with the Linux OS for both home and office use. (read more)

Seagate Technology has announced Momentus, what it is calling the world’s first 7,200rpm 160GB laptop hard drive using perpendicular recording technology.

This is the second generation of the company’s Momentus range of 2.5-inch hard drives and is available in capacities of up to 160GB. 80GB, 100GB and 120GB capacity drives are also being made available. (read more)

Most of the time if you read the words “laptop tablet”, you’d figure that the laptop was a tablet PC. But most of the time you wouldn’t be accounting for highly dependable Korean to English translation. The $130 Laptop Tablet by NAVIsis is actually an add-on for any laptop, converting your once gargantuan Dell XPS to a gargantuan Dell XPS tablet.

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The unit attaches to the side of your laptop LCD (or any LCD, we think) and plugs into a USB port. Presto chango. You are cool (unless you attached this to your preexisting tablet, in which case you are double cool). (read more)

Here’s a mystery, pictures and a video that landed in our tip box of what is said to be a million-dollar laptop. It’s quite beautiful indeed in its pink and black colors, but we’re scratching our heads and wondering what makes it worth $1 million. A visit to the Luvaglio London website offers no clues; it turns us away with a “by appointment only” sign, and this haughty inscription:

“We’ve created our own path—our creations, our designs, our attention to detail… are like nothing you’ve experienced before… We’re not interested in ‘mass production’ or designing ‘entry level products’—we leave that to others… We guarantee that everything we do will exceed expectations… We create and hand make the very best…” (read more)

Upgrading a notebook is much harder for those with basic hardware knowledge and having only a screwdriver as tool, but that’s doesn’t mean things are going to remain like this forever! Asus is just about to release its ASmobile C90S barebone notebook, a product that features world’s first D-Door design.

The D-Door design allows you to upgrade main system components quick and easy, so from now on you don’t have to pay expensive professional services for changing your CPU, graphics card, memory or storage devices!

With a weight of almost 7 pounds, the Asus C90S has a design based on the IMR (In-mold Roller) high gloss finish technology and comes with a 15.4 inch widescreen display, being able to hold processors up to Intel Core 2 Duo E6800 Conroe. (read more)

The way things look at this time, achieving extreme performance in a laptop is not possible without proper cooling, and the best solution is to take out the components that heat up the most, and the video card is one of them. Samsung’s upcoming notebooks, Q45 and R70, are going to feature the currently unknown external nVIDIA GeForce GO 8000M series graphics card for that extra punch of performance that always welcomed, especially when you want to play Battlefield 2142 or Gothic 3 on the road…

Samsung revealed in its CeBIT 2007 web pages that the Q45 is going to be a 12.1 inch ultra-portable, while the R70 will have a 15.4 inch widescreen display, and both will feature HDMI output for playing high definition multimedia content. (read more)

While some people may consider the solid state drives something that you can (still) live without, more and more companies start to deliver such devices on the market. Today, the time has come for Sundisk to show us what they got…

Their 2.5 inch solid state drive has a storage capacity of 32GB and was designed especially for laptops, as a hard drive replacement. Based on the NAND flash technology, the SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5″ comes only two months after SanDisk introduced an 1.8 inch solid state drive. (read more)

Alienware Sentia m3450 is a light and thin notebook coming from the Miami-based Alienware, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell Computer Corporation. With over a decade of experience in the field, Alienware gained its reputation offering latest technology available on the market shaped as desktop and laptop computers specialized for video/audio editing and gaming, in most cases.

The model we have here today, Alienware Sentia m3450, has a 14.1 inch widescreen display and weighs less than 6 pounds, making it an ideal “carry around” computer, but this doesn’t mean that you won’t get enough performance to fulfill most of your needs. The Core 2 Duo processor under the hood does its job the right way, and while the technology used inside this laptop is not out of ordinary, its design is flawless. (read more)

After Samsung, ASUS and others, Intel Corporation announced its entry into the solid state drives market with its Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Just like its predecessors, Intel’s NAND drive is a cost-effective solution that delivers high performance and a couple of advantages over the classical hard drives, the most important ones for mobile users being faster boot times, lower power consumption and increased reliability.

The press release issued today by the Santa Clara giant reveals that this product is available in “1 Gigabyte (GB), 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities”. Even better, the reading speed announced is 28 megabytes (MB) per second, while write operations are performed with 20 MB per second, giving Z-U130’s users “a faster storage alternative that speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries.”, according to Intel. (read more)

Last month, we heard that Apple is working on an ultra-portable version of their laptop, the MacBook. Now, it seems that “the voices” are bringing more information - “Apple Inc. may sell its ultra-portable laptops starting in second half of 2007″, according to Shaw Wu, an analyst at American Technology Research, quoted by Reuters.

As usual, Apple is quiet as a mouse, but this shouldn’t discourage us, because there’s plenty to know at this time. Now, let’s see what we got… (read more)