200GB Toshiba SATA Laptop Hard Drive
Toshiba has doubled the capacity of hard drives available to laptop owners by introducing the MK2035GSS.
Before this hard drive, laptop owners maxed out at 100gb of hard drive space. But this little 2.5″ baby is just what the on-the-road media junkie needs, with enough room for plenty of music, movies, and pictures.
The biggest drawback to this hard drive is its cripplingly slow spin rate — 4200 rpm. That’s unacceptable for anyone who wants decent performance out of their laptop. The trade off with this Toshiba drive is access speed for capacity.
I’ll take a 100gb 7200 rpm drive over a 200gb 4200 rpm any day.
Via: [Ubergizmo]
Skype, Dell XPS Bundle
Dell announced that all new XPS laptop models will be shipping with Skype pre installed as part of an audio/video communications package.
The package also includes a webcam, microphone, and headphones.
Skype really understands their target market. They’re going after the college student market which is tech saavy enough to use Skype (afterall, anyone buying an XPS laptop really loves their video games and graphic editing).
Bundling with Dell is an easy way to get their product in front of their target market.
Dell XPS M2010
At the upper echelon of gaming laptops, it stops becoming all about style and portability and starts becoming all about power.
Case in point: the new Dell XPS M2010.
It’s got it all:
- Core Duo Processor
- Up to 4GB of RAM (yes, you must fill all 4GB if you call yourself a true laptop gamer)
- 20.1″ Widescreen
- 8 Speakers, and a subwoofer (yes, we’re still talking about laptops — not media center PCs)
- RAID harddrive so you can keep backups of your BF2 game saves
Honestly, this thing is a hybrid ‘Desk/lap’-top. The pictures of the XPS M2010 beast are stunning.
Dell is really pushing boundaries and they might’ve created a brand new class of laptops: portable home-theatre notebooks
Oh, and it’ll cost you $3,500 USD.
UPDATE: Cnet has a review of the M2010 rating it a 7.3/10 and citing the obvious:
Absurdly expensive; TV tuner and some other A/V connections aren’t built in; too heavy to be truly portable.