Hp/Compaq Introduces New Business Laptops nc2400, nc4400, nc6400, nc7400, nc8440 powered by Intel's Core2Duo

Because we know that you can never get tired of reading laptop specs, we have five more HP models to drop on you, including the waif-like 12-inch nc2400 (pictured) which weighs in at a mere 2.8-pounds. All five of these Compaq-branded notebooks are targeted at business users, and all but the 15.4-inch (WXGA or WXSGA+) nx7400 series -- which can also be equipped with a Celeron M -- sport one of several Core Duo or Solo flavors. Graphics here range from integrated (the 12.1-inch nc4400) to ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 (14.1-inch, WXGA or WXGA+ nc6400) to an ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 card available in certain configurations of the15.4-inch nw8440 series. All these machines offer WiFi and a minimum of 512MB RAM and a 40GB HDD out of the box, with some models sporting extras like a fingerprint reader, 7200RPM hard drive, and LightScribe dual-layer DVD burner. No prices are known for the nc2400 or the nc4400, which are coming on May 22nd, but the other models are available immediately with prices starting at $1,549 for the nc6400, $740 for the nx7400, and $1,599 for the nc8400 series.

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First Impression at New : Asus m70 Costing About $2500-$3000

Well looky looky what we have here. Some say storage = snore-age. Know what? Those people are mostly right. Except when you get in the world’s first notebook that contains a grand freaking total of one terabyte (!) of hard disk space .

First impressions? The m70 comes with Vista Home Premium (Meh.) and weighs a bone crushing 9-pounds. Seriously, it’s pushing the limits of portability. Asus still hasn’t gotten back to us yet about how much the unit’s price. Our IT guru said it’ll probably cost about $2500-$3000 considering the specs.

To give you an idea of what it would take to fill up the hard drive, hit the jump to see the breakdown on how much porn, MP3s, DVDs, games, and pictures would be needed to fill the roomy storage.

1 terabyte of storage by the numbers:

1TB = 1,024 GB = 1,048,576 MB = 1,073,741,824 KB

Porn: Debbie Does Dallas (838 MB in AVI format) = 1,251 porn flicks

DVD Rips: Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back (4.36 GB) = 235 copies.

Pics: 1.3 megapixel stills from the integrated webcam ( recorded as 516 KB jpgs) = 2,080,895 images.

Games: Crysis (6.03 GB) = 169 copies of Crytek-crippling craziness.

MP3s: Stars are Blind, by Paris Hilton (7.3MB) = 143,640,256 brain damaging tracks. Interestingly, this is the soundtrack they play in Hell.

New HP's All in One MS255 A New Machine By HP

Thanks to a robust, low-cost AMD chip and a healthy portion of system memory, HP's Pavilion All-in-One MS225 ably spans the divide between hobbled Nettops and pricier Intel-based all-in-ones. If performance is top of mind, we'd point you to a true budget desktop. Otherwise, the manageable, self-contained design of a smaller all-in-one has a lot of appeal, and it's worth paying a small premium for this $599 HP, whose components are robust enough to handle the day-to-day tasks that confound its competition.

An 18.4-inch display and all-matte-black housing/gray stand combination make the Pavilion All-in-One MS225 an approachable, unobtrusive piece of hardware. It's easy to imagine it perched on a desk or tucked away on a countertop. The screen isn't touch-enabled, and the included mouse and keyboard are both wired devices, so you'll either need to endure some traditional input device clutter, or spring for a wireless desktop set. The good news is that it does come with 802.11n wireless networking, so at least you won't have to worry about running an Ethernet cable through your kitchen.

To the input method, we don't expect to find touch input in a capable $599 all-in-one (at least in the first half of the year). We're actually very skeptical of touch-input in desktops, but HP's TouchSmart all-in-one line stands out for its superb recipe software that can scrape and organize recipes from a wide variety of popular Web sites. We wish HP had extended that software to this system. A mouse-driven version of its Recipe Box program would be perfect in this countertop-friendly design.

The Averatec D1133 we reviewed back in September has been around for a while. Averatec offers a new, Windows 7-based model for $599 (currently on sale for $479), but aside from the new operating system, the hardware is the same. From a value standpoint, HP gives you a larger hard drive and more system RAM, the latter of which has a noticeable performance impact.

We're not able to speak to the streaming video capabilities of the Averatec system, as we only tested it with a DVD, which we found satisfactory. The HP's video playback quality for DVDs was also fine, and it handled Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and HD movie trailers with no trouble. The HP's audio output was perhaps a little louder than the Averatec's, but by no means would it fill a large room. Between the soft audio and 18.4-inch displays common to both systems, neither is a digital media stand-out, but they should be enough to provide decent background entertainment or up-close viewing.

Apple New Ipad Hits Stores Creating New Dimension In Business

The history of tablet PCs is littered with products that didn’t deliver, lackluster sales and poor software and hardware integration. It’s not surprising that consumers never went gaga for the tablet PC. Business has been a different story.

Simply put, you can find tablets in industries such as healthcare. And there are business applications for tablet PCs. Vertical industries may be the only place where you’ll find more than a dozen tablet PCs in the wild.

Now Apple’s iPad enters the picture. The iPad’s snazzy design and selection of apps could make it a hit with the enterprise. Will the so-called “consumerization of IT” carry the iPad to a business near you? Like the iPhone, it’s quite possible that workers will bring the iPad to work. The business case is a bit unclear at the moment, but TechRepublic has been putting a lot of thought to the iPad and business implications.

New Msi's X-slim X420 With Core 2 Duo & Windows 7 Out Now.

MSI's just outed another in its X-Slim series laptops, this one dubbed the X420. The 14-inch, ultra thinny boasts a choice of Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 or SU4100 CPUs, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 graphics with up to 1GB of DDR3 VRAM, an up to 500GB SATA, and a choice of 4 or 8-cell batteries. Other features include Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel webcam, but the real conversation piece here is looks, in our opinion -- we're really digging the translucent, coffee brown profile of this Windows 7 thin and light. The MSI X-Slim X420 has a starting price of about $799 -- hit the links for a full review, too!

MSI has introduced their latest ultra-thin and lightweight X-Slim Series of the dual-core model in the MSI X420. It features the Intel CULV ultra-portable and energy-efficient platform equipped with the Intel Core 2 Duo processor together with ATI's Mobility Radeon HD5430 3D external display adapter (with built-in 1GB DDR3 VRAM), SRS-certified audio, as well as a battery life that lasts up to 9 hours