Asus releases the “greenest” laptop ever created: the EcoBook- a true tree hugger’s dream.

The outside of the laptop is covered in bamboo, the palm rest is wood, and the guts are all plastic. There is no paint or coating or chemicals. (read more)

After many years in development, the FlipStart 1.0 can now be purchased.

This device is neither a handheld nor a UMPC, but it is nevertheless small enough warrant interest from those who want something much less bulky than a typical laptop.

From its 5.6-inch display to its miniature keyboard, just about everything about the FlipStart is small… except the price. It sells for $2,000. (read more)

Laptop company MALIBAL has introduced its Veda series of laptops, featuring a massive 20.1″ LCD boasting the comparatively low resolution of 1680×1050 which will be suitable for gaming but not so hot for graphics pros.

You’d think for a screen this size you’d be getting 1920×1200, but 16×10’s not all that bad I guess (as I sit here typing this on a 20″ LCD at 1680×1050 :P). (read more)

Sager has busted out a new laptop for those that prefer to keep things in the three-figure range, with its NP6650 model providing some decent looks and reasonable specs for your dollar. Packing a 15.4-inch widescreen display as standard, you can configure the system with your choice of Celeron M or Core 2 Duo processors, along with up to 2GB of RAM, a max 200GB hard drive, VIA Chrome 9HC graphics, a built-in webcam, and either a CD-RW or DVD burner. While maxing things out will up the price considerably, opting for the minium configuration will let you take one of these homes for as little as $599.

Full Details: http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/go_np6650.html

HP is launching a new entry level laptop, selling for around $565 and offering everything you’d need for a standard home or office desktop. It has no frills, with a 60GB HDD and 512MB of RAM, integrated video and wireless support. The HP 510 isn’t going to win any performance contests and probably isn’t ideal for Vista.

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)

Dell announces the HP Pavilion tx 1000 via trendygadget

Fujitsu presents the new LifeBook S2210 Notebook via itechnews

Apple may use flash memory for future Macs and iPods via appleinsider

After Samsung, the guys at LG have entered the hybrid hard drive laptops market, and their “weapon” is called R400. If you hear about the hybrid hard drive for the first time now, it’s enough to say that tests have revealed that this solution makes data processing three times faster than before, and the most obvious part of this is seen when the computer boots up.

Although expected to be available at the end of this month, the R400 can be ordered already from various online stores, and the price known at this time is a bit over $1,000, which seems to be really low for a hybrid laptop, but let’s see what do you get for your money now… (read more)

Having a gaming laptop that doesn’t require a truck to be carried around is a great thing, and also something you don’t get to see often, but ABS Mayhem Blackhawk manages to deliver a really powerful gaming performance punch in only 3.8 pounds!

ABS Computer Technology made the new Mayhem Blackhawk available to the public last Friday, and I must confess that things look pretty good. Just think about the fact that you can get the basic configuration for 1,499$, with a free Logitech headset, Age of Empires III, Far Cry, and MS Works 2004 included!

Now, the basic configuration I just mentioned includes a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, an 80GB hard drive spinning at 5,400rpm and an internal DVD burner, together with a GeForce 7600 GT graphics accelerator from nVidia that displays images on a 14.1 inch LCD display. (read more)

Last weekend, Japan became the first country in the world where the only laptop computer featuring an HD DVD-R drive, Toshiba’s Qosmio G30, can be bought at this time.

Since the disc format used by this computer is the read-only version of the HD DVD format, which is backed by Toshiba, it shouldn’t be a surprise the fact that Toshiba is also the company that made the first laptop capable to use it. (read more)