Boutique computer manufacturer Zepto USA is unveiling two new gaming laptops, the company said today. These are the Zepto Mythos and Nox notebooks and they look to be available now for a starting price of around $1,530 for each. Zepto said these new laptops, depending upon choices made, can be customized to include Centrino 2 technology, up to a 2.8 GHz Dual Core processor, 8GB of RAM and a 500GB hard disk.

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Fujitsu's new AMILO Pi 3540 notebook is certainly no slacker when it comes to processing power as it is based on the new Intel Centrino 2 platform, offering up to 4GB of RAM. Tests run which touches on high definition content processing have shown the Fujitsu AMILO Pi 3540 to be 90% faster when it comes to encoding HD videos and a general performance increase of up to 50% when compared to its predecessors, but I'll take a few large grains of salt with such claims.

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Shortly after the Kohjinsha SC3 was removed from the comfy confines of its packaging and exposed for all to see, said UMPC has managed to get reviewed. Initially, impressions were quite positive, as the reviewer noted that build quality was "superb," the size was adorably small and the display satisfied all expectations. As for sheer performance, the Menlow-based rig excelled as it churned through applications with no huge lag issues; however.

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When you talk fuel cell technology, you generally think cars. Well, fuel cell technology could end up under the hood of your laptop in just a few short years. Maybe sooner. A company based in California named PolyFuel has been working on an interesting prototype that converts methanol fuel to electricity to power a laptop. The Lenovo T40 ThinkPad is being used as PolyFuel’s prototype.

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Toshiba earlier this week introduced a new laptop series that integrates Garmin GPS technology into the fold. It is called the Toshiba Qosmio F55 and pricing starts at around $1,400. The Toshiba Qosmio F55 sports a 15.4-inch screen and is powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and NVIDIA GPUs. The integrated GPS technology by Garmin lets you do all the things you’d typically do with a free-standing GPS system and the system include face recognition technology as well.

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Lenovo provided most of the basic specs for its new batch of ThinkPads when it announced 'em yesterday but, if you want to examine them right down to the very last detail, Lenovo has now got you covered with some data sheets for most the Centrino 2-based laptops. That includes the SL300, SL400 and SL500, the R400 and R500, and the T400 and T500, but not the W series models.

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While Intel decided their release of the new Montevina mobile platform on July 15th, MSI Notebook also announced the launch of GX620, GT720, GX400 of the Gaming Series, EX720, EX300, EX620 of the Entertainment Series, PR621, PR201 of the Professional Series, PX620 of the Aesthetic Series Notebooks equipped with the brand new Montevina Platform on the same day.

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Samsung unveiled two new Centrino2-based laptop lines… with no less than 11 notebooks. We don't have much information… but here are the 11 laptops: The 12" Q210, 13.1" Q310, 14.1" R460, 15.4" R510, 15.4" R560 and the R710 which comes with a 17" LCD screen. The others, the P210, P460, P461, P510 and P560 are designed for commercial use.

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As you could expect, LG also announced a new laptop powered by Centrino2: The premium S510 is a notebook that features a 15.4" LCD screen, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz), 3GB of memory, and NVidia GeForce 9600M GT graphic card. The R410/R510 are notebooks designed for movie viewing, games, and digital TV use. We have no further information concerning this series, and no word about availability date and price.

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Green House introduced the new PicoBoost USB flash drive that provides a transfer rate of 30MB/s (30MB/s reading speed, 20MB/s writing speed). It's compatible with the Vista Ready boost function, available in 1/2/4/8GB versions, and measures 73×17.5×5.6 mm

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Toshiba, Sony, Lenovo… All of them introduced their new Centrino2-based laptop after the announcement of the launch of the new processor here. And this time, this is Epson turn to unveil its new laptop powered by the new CPU. Our new Endeavor NJ5200Pro comes with either a 15.4-Inch LCD Screen in WUXGA resolution (1,920x1,200) or WXGA+ resolution (1,440x900), and either a Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX(512MB) or 9600M GT (256MB) graphic Card.

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Yesterday MSI announced that the MSI Wind has started shipping to those who pre-ordered. Now NewEgg is finally taking orders for the MSI Wind U100 netbook. Amazon has still not updated their shipping target.

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Around a year and a half ago we looked at the Asus Lambourghini VX2 and we were pretty enamoured with it. For a start, it gave us some actual justification for the usual TR habit of populating our reviews with more car analogies than a Bughatti Veyron has horsepower. Moreover, while the styling didn't really pay homage to the Lambo's namesake, it was still distinctive enough to persuade us it would appeal to supercar aficionados.

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Apple is now selling its super slim MacBook Air for $2598, down from the $3098. The cut was the result of a cut in price for two of the MacBook's components. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor upgrade for the Air's 1.8GHz was reduced to $200 from $100. The second reasons being that cost of the Flash memory based 64GB SDD drive upgrade to $599 from $999, That's nearly a 50% slash of the original price.

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According to different web site, Engadget, Eee PC News, PC Retail, Asus enlarged and launched unofficially new Eee PC: The 903, 904, 905 version. We don’t have very precise information, but what we can say, they’ll be basically based on Eee PC 901’s Atom-based, and will feature 8.9-Inch LCD Screen. But, no word concerning other specifications. So, Wait & see….

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