For most people, a computer that is constantly lagging, freezing, crashing, or otherwise performing poorly is due cause for drastic measures. Sometimes, computers only a few years old are simply replaced when they start acting up. Other times, said computer is brought to a specialist and the consumer is charged a hefty premium in order to address the issues at hand.
SanDisk used Computex as the launch pad for its new 2nd generation solid state drives aimed at the expanding netbook market. Many first-generation netbooks with SSDs experienced slower-than-expected performance, but SanDisk has developed ncache to speed up SSD performance while still maintaining low cost. 
Fujitsu today announced their own netbook called the M2010. The Fujitsu M2010 is geared towards students from K-12 and mobile professionals, but can it distinguish itself from the myriad of other netbooks out there?
Freescale partnered with the Savannah College of Art and Design to come up with new mobile computing design concepts. These "smartbook" designs aren't your typical notebooks as you can see in the attached photo gallery.
Acer's upcoming Aspire Timeline brand of notebook computers will combine performance with long battery life. The Timeline notebooks will come in three iterations with each providing a blend of performance and extended run time. A 13.3" model dubbed AS3810T is the most expensive model, checking in at $899.99 while running Intel's Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz). Due to the small screen, it provides a whopping 9 hours of battery life.
Intel is busy at Computex 2009, where it will be announcing new processors for mobile and laptop computing. There are four new models coming, with the T9900 as the flagship model, pushing above 3GHz processor speeds. The P9700 and P8800 increases performance with large amounts of high speed cache memory. The SU2700 is geared towards the ultra-portable market and will be used in the new thin and light notebooks, which Intel expects to be the big sellers in 2009. Additionally, Intel plans on releasing a new chipset dubbed GS40 to maximize performance from these new processors.
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We bought several Viliv S5s for an upcoming project and I've really enjoyed using one for the past few days. I snapped some photos as I unboxed one of these Mobile Internet Devices and put together a quick photo gallery.
Laptop Mag's Joanna Stern gets some one on one time with the MSI X-series family and shows us a brief overview of the expanded lineup that includes the X340 we've already seen along with the yet to be released X400 and X600. The X400 sports a larger 14" screen and the X600 displays 16" of screen real estate. The X-series will all come with Intel's new ULV Core 2 Solo processors and the X600 will come with an ATI 430 discrete graphics cards.