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We didn’t exactly get the best look at HP’s new EliteBook 2730p tablet when it was announced earlier today, but Notebooks.com has now thankfully come through with a video of the device, in which HP’s Kyle Thorton helpfully shows off every nook and cranny of sleek yet supposedly rugged convertible. That includes a peek at the tablet’s jog dial, which makes a welcome reappearance after being ditched on the 2710p, and its “double clutch” stylus-holding system, which promises to keep you from losing your trusty input device (it’s actually pretty slick).

It’s not as momentous as the new enterprise-focused Precisions and Latitudes, but Dell’s got a minute miniature treat for buyers today as well: an to be had $450 Samsung SSD for the XPS M1330 and M1530. Sure, the positives are debatable, but c’mon — you can appreciate you fancy it.

As if the total defective NVIDIA GPU crisis couldn’t get any a good amount confusing, The Inquirer is now reporting the the original batch of bad GPUs may be far of the end of NVIDIA’s problems. Apparently, five unspecified team partners are now alleging the they’re seeing G92 and G94 chips anticipated bad at “high rates” as well, and in both desktop and laptop cards no less. That includes 8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GS graphics cards, “several mobile flavors” of the 8800, “most” of the 9800 suffixes, and a few 9600 variants, all of that are established on the G92. As for the G94, it turns out the clearly card affected is the 9600GT. Of course, none of the present is approximately as set in stone as the original lot of problems, but we hold a sneaking suspicion currently will not be go on we hear up it.

Tons of pics of Dell’s new Precision and Latitude E line machines? You got ‘em, in conjunction with shots of the crazy-small E4200, that so much takes us going back to the days of the hot tiny Samsung-built X1. Hit the gallery below, marvel at particular of the machines your IT department may be rolling out in the coming 6-18 months.

Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the so much annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo’s new outrage — the ThinkPad W700. Containing sufficient computational artillery to total number a miniature village, presently for-creatives-only behemoth is intended for sheer pixel pushing… and miniature else. The method packs in two portions aimed at graphic artists and photographers that are quite different to a laptop: a put up in Wacom digitizer simply to the correctly of the trackpad, and an on-board color calibrator. But what is taking place short of the hood you ask? Well for starters the 17-incher sports the chiefly regularly Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU in a laptop (no word on speeds at such point) as favorably as the first and foremost coming of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 graphics chipset (with a hefty 1GB of memory on-board). The workstation in addition serves up double hard push bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 (SSD or traditional disk, naturally), up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an optional Blu-ray burner. Of course, that is totally kitted out — the W700 starts at $2,978 and moves skyward from what i read in there. Take a check at our hands-on underneath and see the beast for yourself.

If you produce yourself burning with your MacBook or iBook batteries at an alarming rate, more than likely you force a charging answer that’s, shall we say… a great deal more robust. That’s at which Oncore Power’s psychotic 6-bay charging station comes to play. Never once more might you hold to experience the indignation of a powerless laptop through the company’s all-in-one answer to credit most every brick in your arsenal at once. The device am able to juice up 3 batteries at once, allowing for you stagger the two bays of 3 slots so you are continually one fashionable wrist snap away of sweet, round power. Sure, it worth $395 (and presumably additional for the version among included batteries), but you will not put a costs on peace of mind, can you? Oh, wait. You can. It’s $395.

There’s a overall twist it of netbooks out there, but if you are scouting one in on a swiveling screen, likelihood are the M912V is sky astronomical on your list. For starters, this moment one’s rather costly at $699, and for too still change, you’d in effect assume the battery livlihood to be best as opposed to “poor,” the temperature to stay a few numbers under boiling and the keyboard to not be depicted as “cramped.” Of course, not anything was a downer — the speakers got strong, the port assortment was praised and the touchpad was smiled upon. Still, critics couldn’t recommend procuring one without steady reservations, so unless you are merely goo-goo for swivel, your bucks are possibly proper off exhausted elsewhere.

It’s second for additional Dell E-series netbook rumors, you ready? According to DigiTimes and its business sources, Compal Electronics is slapping up both 8.9-inch and 10-inch E-series netbooks for Dell. Previously, we have alone heard talk about of an 8.9-inch E and 12.1-inch E Slim. The 10-inch E is scheduled for an October product launch additonally the 8.9-incher was earlier mythical for August. Interestingly, Dell expects the 10-incher to suffer close to twice the necessity of the 8.9-inch example (assuming a sole-source manufacturing deal) rooted on Compal’s monthly creation predictions of 400k-450k and 250k units, respectively. There’s a Dell drive occurence later on on today at which we will just now bid all such Dell netbook common thought to rest. Stay tuned, as properties say.

After having a presumed Jolly Rancher infestation, ASUS is prepped to loose these kinds of artificially flavored Eee PCs onto Korea. Available for pre-order now, the limited edition “pink” (hey, that is how properties say) and Jell-O purple Eee PC 901 and Eee PC 1000H ship on the 22nd of August for an undetermined price. Hmmm, blood-red snowflakes and glo-stick mistletoe? Feels as if Christmas in our outstandingly own Eee PC hell.

We heard properties got coming. Now it looks like it’s as if we have got a instant ultra-thin laptop sporting Intel’s custom-built, 65-nm processor mostly unveiled in Apple’s MacBook Air. At in regards to 3:00 moments to the Envy 133 video, Rahul Sood, Voodoo founder, reads this his new Envy 133 uses an “off roadmap chip” of Intel design that consumes 20 watts of power. Looking at the Envy spec sheet reveals a processor running at either 1.6GHz (SP7500) or 1.8GHz (SP7700), provided 4MB L2 Cache and 800MHz FSB. Right, folks are the particular specs as the customized CPU at last found inside of Apple’s MacBook Air. Also of note, LaptopMag displays the current Voodoo’s instant-on IOS is none a good amount as opposed to DeviceVM’s Splashtop that ASUS is already bunging to all of its motherboards. Make no mistake, such hunky chunk of carbon fiber is a great deal magical, it is just recently not the mystery it seemed when launched the morning.