Tom Yager of InfoWorld is all praises for the new 15″ MacBook Pro. Well almost all praises. There are some minor flaws in an otherwise great notebook.
Quoting from his article
The 15-inch MacBook Pro is the best of the tier-one commercial notebooks, full stop. My two complaints — that the SD card sticks out of its slot and the USB ports remain too close together — are overshadowed by the new display, seven-hour battery, faster CPU, and the fact that there is an SD card slot. There are cheaper notebooks, but I’d challenge you to find one that’s faster, quieter, and …read more

There were a lot of innovative products in the past 18 months which include netbooks, netbooks with swivel, ultra-portable computers, etc. How about a two in one desktop and laptop?

The Gigabyte M1022 Booktop is a two in one functioning machine. It is both a netbook and a desktop. On travel, take the netbook out and when using it as a desktop, just put it in the base.
The specs are as follows:

10.1" LED screen, Intel® Atom™ Processor N270 1.6GHz(M1022M/G) / N280 1.66GHz(M1022X)
Genuine Windows® XP Home
10.1" TFT-LCD WSVGA, 1024×600(M1022M/G) / 1366×768(M1022X)with LED backlit
Mobile Intel®945GSE Express Chipset+ ICH7M
92% …read more

Apple quietly updated it’s entry level MacBook. The white polycarbonate MacBook received a processor upgrade from 2.0 Ghz to 2.13 Ghz. Apart from this it also got an hard drive upgrade. It now packs a 160GB hard drive.

[image courtesy of Apple]
This upgrade puts it up the low end Aluminum MacBook who’s processor is still currently 2.0 Ghz. The update polycarbonate MacBook is now a much better value for money notebook for students with it’s price tag of $999.

Image: Microsoft Hardware website
I just saw an ad for this new mouse being sold by Microsoft called the Arc Mouse. It seems all the standard features of the mouse you’d expect, but the rear-end of it folds for storage and portability.
The one feature it has that I think is key in a mobile mouse though is the ability to have a tiny USB receiver that you can just leave plugged into your laptop instead of having to remove it.
If you do remove it, having a mouse that allows you to store the small received inside the mouse itself is …read more