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Fujitsu LifeBook P7230 – North America

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The Fujitsu LifeBook P7230 appears to now be available in North America (it had been available in Taiwan and elsewhere last month).

It has a 10.6-inch widescreen display and is powered by an 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo Ultra Low Voltage (ULV), and has an internal bay that can either be used for an optical drive (up to and including a dual-layer DVD writer), or for an extra battery that takes the estimated battery life from six hours up to almost 10 hours. It can be maxed out with 2GB of memory, and harddrives start at 40GB and go up to 80GB.

OQO Model 02 – EV-DO Wireless (Verizon)

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MobileWhack has a story up about OQO announcing that the OQO Model 02 has optional EV-DO Wireless WAN capability (for Verizon customers):

OQO Inc today announced that their critically acclaimedOQO 02 modelcomputer is now also available with EV-DO Wireless WAN capability and is compatible with the Verizon Wireless Broadband Access service. Thus users in the United States will be able to access their email, the Internet, and business and personal applications at speeds of 400-700 kilobits per second.

Windows Vista Beta 2

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CNET has a video review/preview if Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2.

PC Magazine has put together a special report of Windows Vista Beta 2, which it calls a “critical milestone on the release plan”.

There’s a lot of attention being paid to this beta, (it’s being unveiled in Seattle at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)), because at this point the key features are pretty much locked in, and now it’s being tweaked and fixed in preparation for a launch either later this year or early next. Basically what you see now is going to be 95% of what you see when it launches, hence the interest.