Announced: Lenovo 3000 V100

Lenovo has revealed information about their new ultraportable, that is a part of their 3000 series. It’s the Lenovo 3000 V100, and has a 12.1-inch display, BUT, unlike the previous ultraportables they have released this year, the ThinkPad X60, this has a widescreen display (1280×800), making for a smaller footprint. Like the ThinkPad X60 series, the V100 is powered by an Intel Core Duo CPU (although a Core Solo is available).

Review: Apple MacBook (ArsTechnica)

ArsTechnica has put together their review of the Apple MacBook – Apple’s new Intel Core Duo-powered 13.3-inch widescreen notebook. They point out something that has been floating around some of the notebook sites – If you bump the middle MacBook up to an 80GB harddrive, it’s still $150 cheaper than the black one, and why the black one is still more expensive

Announced: MSI MEGABOOK MS-1058

MSI is rolling out the MEGABOOK MS-1058, one of the first ultraportables that utilizes AMD’s Turion 64 X2 Dual Core CPU (2.0GHz). It weighs just over four pounds, has a 12.1-inch widescreen display, and up to 2GB of memory. It utilizes ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200M chipset, and looks like it has a choice of ATI graphics options, either the Xpress 200M or X300SE. A DVD-Writer is standard, and it has the choice of a 4-cell or 8-cell battery.

We should start seeing a lot more of these 64-bit dual-core notebooks popping up over the next month or two. The Turion 64 X2 was announced just two days ago, but it looks like MSI already had these in the pipeline. It does utilize DDR2 memory (some some mobile offerings from AMD didn’t), and has more power-saving/conservation features built into the CPU.

No word on availability outside of Japan.

Epson Adds More Disney Characters to Endeaver NT350

Epson has unveiled additional Disney versions of its Epson Endeaver NT350. The NT350 is a notebook with a 12.1-inch display and powered by an Intel Celeron M or Pentium M (1.6GHz – 2GHz), with upto seven hours of battery life (with the extended battery). They have had a Disney line of their Endeavor NT350 White series for quite some time now, and this is an expansion. They must be popular to be adding more.

Epson’s Endeavor lineup is only available in Japan/Asia at this time.

Microsoft Windows Vista: Get Ready

Microsoft has unveiled their new website aimed at preparing people for Windows Vista, their next major Operating System and the sequel to Windows XP – Windows Vista: Get Ready. Not slated for release until the end of this year (more than likely next year), nonetheless you can start looking at whether or not notebooks you purchase this year will be capable of running Vista (or more importantly, running it well). Among the information, the official requirements for the two classifications of computers that can run Windows Vista