Acer added yet another notebook to its Ferrari range of laptops. The 1005WTMi casing is made with carbon fiber which appeals greatly to professional costumers and automotive lovers, especially Formula One and Ferrari lovers (I am one of them!).

This newest Acer Ferrari 1000 series notebook has a design that is directly taken from the Ferrari's typical appearance. The sharp racing lines, sculptured spaces, unique metal touch-pad, and the dashboard light illumination. This Acer Ferrari 1000 Series design is being acknowledged as "Passion in Motion".

“Acer designed a notebook that is really exclusive and reflected our determination to always being superior in innovation, an ambition that always became the characteristics in the world of Formula One and the world of Information Technology” said Jason Glue.

This Acer Ferrari 1000 Series notebook uses the AMD Turion64 X2 Processor. The official price of 1005WTMi Acer Ferrari 1000 Series Notebook is US$2499. Read on for full specs.

MoGo MouseBT is a business-card sized, Bluetooth-enabled mouse that stores and recharges neatly inside…that’s right, inside…your laptop computer’s PC card slot when it’s not being used. MoGo MouseBT is a technologically advanced wonder, featuring patent-pending optics and a system that automatically levers the mouse up into your hand as you work. With no batteries to replace, the MoGo MouseBT recharges in less than an hour in the PC card slot of your laptop.

MoGo MouseBT is specifically designed for road warriors who hate carrying around full-sized, bulky mice, but who also despise laptop trackpads and trackpoints. MoGoMouseBT provides them with a solution to their problem, making it easier for them to work on the road.

I would definitely buy this one if I had a laptop! This mouse is available for around US$70.

PRODUCT URL: MoGo Mouse Home

If you've ever taken out your laptop and thought, "Man, I wish my laptop had flames and a picture of a falcon on top," Falcon's new FragBook TLX laptop is the one for you.  Falcon's laptops, if you don't know, are usually oriented toward the hardcore gaming types, and this one is clearly no exception.  For a starting price of $3,516, you can get a 17" widescreen laptop with a Core 2 Duo processor and a GeForce 7600 Go graphics card.

The laptop features a screen resolution of 1680x1050 and a 2.33GHz processor.  You can get up to 160GB of hard disk space and 2GB of memory, but these are not included in the starting price.  Neither is the flame-painted color scheme, which will cost you an additional $426.  But hey, it makes a hell of a statement at a LAN party.

It could just be the usual craze over the Macworld Expo, but rumor has it that Apple's cooking up a new super-slim version of the MacBook Pro with a 12" widescreen display.  Everything already in the MacBook Pro would be there, just in a much, much smaller form factor.  How much slimmer could it get, I wonder?

Whatever sources came up with this information don't have a lot of details, but the price point is supposed to be around $1,700 or $1,800, which is decent for something as feature-packed as a MacBook Pro.  As for a timetable, February of next year is the date floating around.  We'll see if any of this turns out to be true.

Shortly after the release of their new MacBook Pros with Core 2 Duo processors, Apple has updated their standard MacBooks with Core 2 Duo as well.  It's basically the same old 13.3" MacBook, but now it comes with a 1.83GHz or 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 512MB to 2GB of DDR2 memory, and up to 200GB of disk space.  For a 13.3" laptop, that's really not too bad.

Other specs of the laptops remain mostly the same.  The pricing is pretty much the same too, with the lowest model costing you $1099.  This, of course is for the white one; if you want a black one, the minimum you can get away with is $1499, but you get upgrades with that too.

Looks like Sony's cooked up another ultra-portable laptop.  The new Vaio G is a 12.1" laptop that weighs in at only 1.98 pounds.  With its sleek style, long battery life, and incredibly low weight, this one could be a winner.

The Vaio G sports a 1024x768 display, a Celeron or Core Solo processor, integrated Intel 945GMS Express graphics, up to 80GB of disk space, up to 1.5GB of memory, a fingerprint reader, and wireless and Bluetooth capabilities.  Battery life is rated at 6 hours, or 12.5 with the optional 6-cell battery (which makes it about half a pound heavier).

The Vaio G will be available in Japan starting December 2 for around $2000, depending on which options you pick.

Dell is slowly phasing AMD into all of its product lines.  They have now introduced a new line of laptops that feature a range of AMD mobile processors, yet another step to incorporating AMD and Intel into all of their available computers.  But while the price point of the Inspiron 1501 was expected to be below $500, the lowest configuration will actually cost you $549.

The Inspiron 1501 is available with a number of AMD Sempron, Turion 64, and Turion 64 X2 processors, ranging from the Sempron 3500+ to a Turion 64 X2 TL-56.  You can have up to 2GB of DDR2 system memory and up to 80GB of disk space.  Onboard video is provided by ATI's Radeon Xpress 1150 IGP (with 256MB of Hypermemory).  A multi-format DVD burner is available as an option.

The $549 laptop I mentioned above is configured with a Sempron 3500+, 512MB memory, 60GB hard drive, and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, with a 1-year warranty.

After a long wait (for some people, at least), Apple has released its first MacBook Pros with Core 2 Duo processors.  You will find on Apple's website that the new models are apparently 39% faster than the old models, which is quite a performance boost.  But we've come to expect that from Apple.

The 15.4" MacBook Pro comes with a 2.16GHz or 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM (upgradeable to 3GB), and up to 200GB of hard disk space.  The 17" MacBook Pro comes standard with the 2.33GHz processor and 2GB of RAM.  Both have slot-loading SuperDrives (the 15.4" has a 6x drive and the 17" has an 8x drive).  The laptops weigh in at 5.6 and 6.8 pounds, respectively.

Both models come equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 128MB of 256MB of memory (based on processor speed).  All the standard features of a MacBook Pro, like AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, gigabit ethernet, Firewire, and an integrated camera, along with others, are also included.

Pricing starts at $1,999 for the 15.4" and $2,799 for the 17" MacBook Pros.

Intel has officially announced its Santa Rosa, along with its marketing name: Centrino Duo.  Built around the 64-bit, dual-core Merom processor, the Santa Rosa notebook platform will sport plenty of improvements over current chipsets.  Among these features are a new 4965AGN wireless networking adapter, brand new integrated graphics on the GM965 chipset, and gigabit networking.

New Core 2 Duo CPUs will also be available.  The T7300, T7500, and T7700 will use an 800MHz bus and have 4MB of L2 cache, and the T7100 will have only 2MB of cache.

Several of the ThinkPad notebook models from Lenovo are getting a variety of new features soon.  Lenovo announced recently that all ThinkPad 60 series laptops will come with biometric security options, including Ultimaco's SafeGuard Easy 4.30 software to support biometric hard drive encryption.  These laptops will be able to encrypt and decrypt files and manage your passwords using only your fingerprint.  It's surprising that biometrics haven't gotten a wider acceptance, especially since fingerprint scanners aren't that expensive.

In addition, the T60, T60p, R60, R60e, X60, Z61t, Z61p, and Z61e will be featuring new Core 2 Duo processors for increased performance and more energy-efficient computing.  All of those models, minus the Z61e, plus the X60s, will also have the option of draft-N wireless support.  Given that 802.11n might take a while to get a final standard, there's no way to tell whether or not this can be upgraded to the actual wireless-N until we get more information.

Pricing is not yet available, but these features are supposed to be out by the end of the month, so we'll see.