Asustek has just announced a new Eee product line for the year 2008: E-DT, E-Monitor, and E-TV. As we all know, Asustek and its Eee PC have recently been associated with low cost or competitive prices, and you'll be glad to know that the new products take after the Eee PC in terms of pricing and quality. There's bad news though for those hoping for touchscreen Eee PCs. Check out the full article for details.

Alienware has announced that they have once again broken new ground with the shipment of the new Area-51 m9750 17-inch notebook.

The Area-51 m9750 is the first 17-inch notebook in the world that fuses the graphics capabilities of dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics cards with NVIDIA SLI technology and Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors. Other features of the Area-51 m9750 include the following:

• Lightning-quick frame rates and standout image quality with dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX 512MB graphics cards with NVIDIA SLI technology.
• Multitasking to the max, thanks to the latest Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors, which deliver 20 percent higher performance than previous-generation Intel Core Duo processors.
• The ability to store massive amounts of content, including games, TV programming, movies and music on dual hard drives packing up to 500GB of storage space.
• An abundance of multimedia features, including an ultra-sharp 17" widescreen display with Clearview technology, an integrated webcam and an integrated TV tuner with full DVR functionality.
• Vivid Blu-ray Disc movie playback using NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD technology for 6x the detail of standard DVD movies.

The Area-51 m9750 17-inch notebook is now available for prices starting at US$ 2,099 at the Alienware website.

First off, we here at QJ would want to thank annony-mouse for the tip! With that said, let's jump right to the topic of this post. We know that the Nokia N93 has already been shipped, in fact the Gary Oldman short film made using the nifty Nokia phone has already been released. So why are we reporting about a YouTube vid about the N93 user interface?

Well, just in case you are searching for a cellphone or you just wanna see some of N93's features, then this video is for you. It's seven-minutes long and was posted by cal8887. He mentioned that he "tv-outed" his N93 to his laptop's USB TV tuner so that others could see the phone's features and capabilities.

Aside from that, if you're thinking of buying the N-Gage II come September, you should also take a look at this vid. Apparently, it also shows gameplay snippets of System Rush Demo, one of Nokia's next-gen N-gage games. So with that, click play and watch the vid.

When was the last time productivity was on your mind while buying a computer? Well in my case, I don't remember anymore. The first thing that comes to my head is entertainment. Nowadays, that's what these computers are for. Especially whenever we are on the road. When we get bored while travelling, we turn to our laptops for help. Most of the time sadly, they disappoint us.

That's why the new Hitachi laptop model is such a juicy release for most of us. The design of notebook PriusNote type K (Hitachi PN39K1S) was molded from entertainment fantasies. On top of the list of its key features is the ultra-bright 15.4-inch WXGA display. Now couple this with a DVD Super-Multi drive and its close to bringing the very theaters with you.

Did we mention about the 3W subwoofer? How about the built-in digital TV tuner and DVR capabilities? We did not? Our bad, we must have been dreaming. By the way, the machine is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz), 120 GB hard drive and one full gig of DDR2 SDRAM. The 6.3-pound Hitachi PN39K1S measures 365 x 265 x 32.8 - 35.3mm.

It will come out on October 26 with a price tag of $2,236. I'm sorry, how much? Oh, I guess we'll just keep dreaming from now.

Toshiba is proud to release the world's first notebook to come with a DVD-SuperMulti (+R double layer) drive and an integrated HD DVD-ROM in just one optical drive, their Qosmio G35-AV660.

Toshiba's Qosmio G35 runs on Core 2 Duo T7200 at a speed of 2.0 GHz and uses Windows XP Media Center 2005 edition as its OS. It also sports a 17" diagonal Ultimate TruBrite widescreen display with 1920x1200 resolution and 1080p high-definition format. The laptop comes with an HDMI connector and has dual high-capacity 120GB hard drives.

Of course the 10.1-pound laptop has Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, Infrared, and four USB ports, it's only proper that laptops nowadays have those. But an added feature of the Qosmio G35 AV660 is the Fingerprint Reader and a Security Cable Lock Slot for your laptop's security. This Qosmio also has 1-bit digital amplifier, a built-in microphone, and Dolby Home Theater Digital Audio enhancements, giving you quality sound when listening to your MP3s.

This baby comes in Titanium Silver and Silver editions and has a one-year warranty for the battery and other parts if you buy it from Toshiba Direct. The laptop's input devices include your usual Hot Key functions, Application Launch Button, and comes with a QosmioPlayer Remote Control and MS Windows Media Center 2005 remote control. And if that's not enough, the Qosmio G35-AV660 also comes with a 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter and Toshiba TV Tuner which allows you to connect your laptop to the TV.

However, for something that runs tons of applications which allows for multimedia multi-tasking, the battery life is kinda short, around 2.5 hours. So, is it worth the $3,499-hole you'd be making in your pockets? You decide.

NEC seems to be willing to stick it out to the competition as they have just released their new set Turion 64 X2 laptop goodies, which will be part of their LaVie line of laptops. To go right down to the nitty-gritty of these machines, they are equipped with 15.4-inch 1,280 x 800 displays, ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 integrated graphics, and dual-layer DVD burning across the board.

Of course there's also the usual Firewire, four USB 2.0 ports, a PC card slot, multi-card reader, gigabit Ethernet and 802.11a/b/g WiFi in NEC's latest producrs. They will come in two choices, if you have some dough to spare, you could get the LaVie L line which will cost you ¥210,000 or roughly $1,819 USD. It will have 100GB HDD, 768MB of RAM (2GB max) and WMCE '05, powered by an AirTV external TV tuner.

Too expensive? Then maybe you oughta consider the entry level LaVie G type L option, a build-type order affair that will cost you ¥125,000 or $1,082. These babies will be available in Japan starting August 11, no word on availability and sale date elsewhere.

If you think these features sounds good and the price tag ain't that high, then prepare for the downside of these contraptions. If you're the type who travels with your laptop, you might get a little disappointed with the Lavie laptops because their battery life willl only cover you for roughly 2 hours -- and for an almost 7-pound laptop, that might be quite a turnoff for you. But then again, you will be the best judge of that.

Some people are getting excited over the launching of the newest Microsoft innovation, the Windows Vista. And most probably, if you are one of them, you've already gone over the MS Vista webpage to check out if your PC's specs could handle and run the version of Vista that seems like the panacea for all your needs and woes.

However, the MS Vista webpage that would check out your PC's specs isn't all that accurate. You see, an 800MHz CPU with 512MB of memory, DirectX 9 graphics card, and a TV tuner card gives that would supposedly comprise your ticket to Windows Vista Ultimate are just the minimum requirements and not the recommended ones. We leave it to you to imagine what would happen if you install the Vista on a computer with those specs...

Allegedly, Microsoft is aware of this problem, so to remedy it, they published a hardware list that has a lower than usual limit to put across the message that the Vista won't be a occupy most of your hardware. Then it distributes a far stricter list of hardware to its OEM partners to ensure Vista will run properly on the PCs that will go on sale in the coming months. You gotta admit, that's a smart move on Microsoft's part.

And to add more woes to that, apparently, the terminologies in the Windows Logo Program Requirements aren't that accurate as well. The definition of 'desktop', 'mobile', and 'ultraportable' are also skewed. The definitions are important because your system requirements should match with the ones written in the Windows Logo Program, now if you can't classify your computing device properly, then you'll encounter some problem.

Hopefully, when Vista's released (November 2006 for the Business Edition and January 2007 for consumer editions), this problem will be fixed. Microsoft has a reputation of not backing out and never giving up on a problem.

If none of the portable media devices available in the US market appeal to you, then it's time to take the next plane out... To Taiwan! That's where you'll find the GIGABYTE g-Smart i, the feature-packed smartphone that boasts a 2.1 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, radio tuner, and PAL/NTSC TV tuner. This pocket wonder is powered by Windows Mobile 5 and supports MP3, MPEG4, 3GPP, and WMV file formats. It also has a detachable antenna that can be plugged on the side of the phone when it's time to watch TV. Just don't forget to remove the antenna when you have to use the phone (unless you want to create a silly fashion statement).

You may be put off by the orange and white color combination that's sure to get the "Sony Ericsson Walkman copycat" tag, but there's no denying that the the GIGABYTE g-Smart i is one power-packed unit that takes portable media entertainment to the next level.