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Well it depends on who you talk to as to whether this is really a laptop or a tablet PC or as Gateway calls it, a Convertible Notebook.

Whatever you might call it it’s just been released in the US and if I lived in the US then I could definitely see one in my future. After all, if it’s good enough for Bill then it certainly is good enough for me

You can find out more about it right here

… but only in the US so the rumour goes. It seems that Walmart an d Hewlett Packard will likely celbrate this Thanksgiving season by offering a laptop or a PC with an LCD monitor for $398 each.

You can read the full story here

But all I have to say is that you get what you pay for. You buy cheap then you get cheap … just ask all those people who bought Dell computers in the last year or so and have had no end of trouble with them.

If you’re into computer gaming you will know that when it comes to the price of gaming machines the sky really is the limit.

$600 for a graphics card doesn’t even cause a hardened gamer to catch his breath and the gaming machine that my friend Rick has for sale down at Fraser Coast Computers for $A4000 is nothing out of the ordinary.

What is out of the ordinary is a good budget priced gaming PC and while you won’t find a manufacturer who supplies them ready built it may be possible to assemble on of your own for around $US500.

If you want to know how then jump over to this article on Tom’s Hardware Guide

Sony has recently released it’s latest S series laptop/notebook. It’s the S480 and it is definitely rich in features.

Those features include:

13.3″ wide XBRITE

Intergrated optial drive

nVida GeForce Go 6200 graphic card

Bluetooth wireless technology

915PM Intel Centrino Mobile chipset with integrated wireless LAN

Connectivity for a wide range of digital devices including digital cameras, video cameras and PDA

And all that comes in a slim and lightweight package.

Laptop’s are an invaluable tool for anyone who needs to work online at time s when they’re not near the office. Anyone who has lugged a laptop around with them knows that they’re not as light and portable as they’re made out to be. After a while they become weighty little monsters that become a nuisance.

But any laptop that weighs in at 1.15kg is worth having a look at and the Toshiba R200 is one laptop that isn’t going to weigh you down.

The specs for the R200 are:

1.6 GHz Pentium low-voltage chip

512MB of DDR2 RAM

Wi Fi

60GB hard drive

And that’s all packaged in a magnesium alloy case that is less than 2 cm thick.

There’s no reoom for an optical drive and so it doesn’t have one.

Now if all those specs and the ultra thin image really made you want to rush out and buy one then perhaps you should take a deep breath first because they are not cheap. Here in Australia they retail for around$3.5k and I saw one in the US advertised for $1999.

But they are a nice looking unit and they only weigh 1.15kg …