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Sony takes the top honors in a segment that did not offer too many products this year. The XR550E is good for all-round use.

It supports Full HD movie recording and has a massive 240 GB built-in hard drive for storing the footage. The 3.5-inch touchscreen is bright and crisp.

The Sony machine also supports 5.1 channel audio recording and has a shoe to attach an external light source as well. Despite packing in so much, it is incredibly light.

Specs: 1080p resolution; MPEG 4 video recording; 10X optical zoom; 3.5 inch touchscreen LCD; 12 MP image capture; USB, mini HDMI port and weights 500 gm.

Eurocom D900F Panther is a quite the machine with a 17.1″ display (1920X1200 resolution).  Powered by an Intel Core i7 980X Extreme and/or Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and NVIDIA GeForce GO GTX 480M, GTX 285M or Quadro FX 3800M and Quadro FX 2800M high performance, fully upgradable MXM 3.0b video card.

Tha laptop holds up to 4 physical Hard Drives (up to 3TB of storage) in RAID 0/1/5/10 and up to 24GB of triple-channel DDR3-1333 memory. All while running Microsoft Hyper-V technology to virtualize any OS.

Eurocom D900F also comes equipped with a Blu-ray combo drive, a full keyboard and numeric keypad, HDMI and DVI outputs, Ethernet, 4X USB ports, eSATA, FireWire, an Express Card slot.

Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T is affordable for an ultraportable. It offers nice performance, has excellent highdef video playback, and runs for over 6 hours on a battery charge. But it also has some ergonomic quirks.

The laptop comes equipped with an Intel Core i5430um CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 500GB 5400rpm HDD. Gaming frame rates from the Intel HD Graphics (measured in frames per second) were unplayable, landing in the teens.
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The Sandberg Multi Hard Disk Box takes both SATA and PATA disks, but it’s not much bigger or more expensive than SATA-only enclosures.

Fitting a disk into the sturdy black metal case is simple. Several small screws are involved, so you’ll need a steady hand, but a screwdriver is included.

With a 640GB, 5,400rpm SATA disk fitted and connected over eSATA, transfer speeds were fast, with an average of 54,8 MB/s for large files and 25.6MB/s for small files,The eSATA connection doesn’t work with PATA disks and isn’t ideal for mobile use, as you’ll need the included 5V-to-USB cable for power.
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A new Nettop PC known as the VOT125 by ViewSonic is now available.

This mini sized nettop is powered by one of four energy-saving Intel’s processors: Celeron SU743, Dual Core Celeron SU2300, Pentium SU4100 and Core 2 Duo SU7300.

Under the lid you can also find a 250GB HDD, 2GB of memory, 2X USB 2.0 ports, wired and wireless connections, DVI output, HDMI output and runs on Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OS.

The starting price of Viewsonic VOT125 Nettop PC is $499.

LG Viewty’s the latest  range of touchscreen phones is LG Viewty Smile GT400 which offers some great features.

This latest handset is packed with a 5.0 megapixel camera (with Flash and Face Detection) which offers photo slideshows and a photo editor for adjusting pictures before sharing them with friends. The device supports 3G which provides fast internet downloads and fast access to social websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Orkut and Twitter.

The new LG Viewty Smile GT400 is equipped with a 3-inch touchscreen TFT display (WQVGA) with resolution of 240×400 pixels, 100 MB of internal memory and plus a microSD card slot with capacity up to 16GB, Bluetooth 2.1, FM tuner, audio and video players, Document viewer.

LG Viewty Smile GT400 is now available in the market.

HP intros a new 18.4-inch (1920 x 1080 Ultra BrightView LCD display) Pavilion dv8t featuring Intel Core i7-720QM Quad Core a 1.6GHz processor.

The laptop is packed with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 1GB graphics card, a 500GB HDD,  4GB DDR3 RAM, Blu-ray and runs on Windows 7 64-bit OS.

The most amazing thing is that the Pavilion dv8t is available only for $949.99 shipped instead of regular price $1,449.99.

Here I would like to introduce Acer’s new 10.1-inch Aspire One D260 netbook which has dual-boot capability with Android and Windows, likely XP. An update to the Aspire One D250. At the same time, Acer revealed a netbook running on Chrome OS is also due in the summer of this year.

The netbook is powered by an Intel Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB of HDD. Aspire One D260 features a 0.3-megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a card reader and include 3G broadband support.

Wortmann AG appears in market with its new AMD-based Terra Mobile 1745 laptop. Tha 17-inch (1440 x 900 display) Terra Mobile 1745 is powered by an  AMD Athlon 64 TF-20 1.6GHz processor, a 2GB of RAM, an integrated ATI Radeon X1200 graphics, a 250GB HDD. The laptops also features a 1.3MP webcam, Bluetooth (optional), WiFi, a 7-in-1 card reader, a DVD writer, an ExpressCard slot, a 6-cell battery pack.

Intel’s new 40GB X25-V Value SATA SSD is now available at $125. Significantly, it is  lower than the company have been charging for their previous ones.

The biggest issue is capacity as the X25-M only packs 40GB of storage, which I think is low no matter whether you’re looking at netbooks or anything bigger.Intel are positioning it more as a dualboot drive, with the expectation that users will keep the SSD for the OS and core applications and then store their data on a larger HDD.

In fact, they reckon if you did that – with Windows 7, Office and a game – you could see up to 43-percent faster overall system performance or an 86-percent improvement in gaming experience.