Toshiba's released its most powerful gaming notebook to date. The Qosmio X305-Q708 features an Intel Core 2 Etreme quad-core processor, dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS GPUs with SLi technology, a 128GB solid state drive and a 320GB (7200RPM) secondary hard drive. The Qosmio X305-Q70 is priced at $4,199.99, which is probably out of most notebook buyer's budget, but we can all drool. 
Get a Dell Studio 15 Notebook for just $649 after a $220 discount. 
Last month I was lucky enough to take a trip to Italy for a few weeks with my wife. I spent the vast majority of my time unplugged from the Internet, but did keep an eye out for how Italians are using gadgets. 
Last week Apple introduced a new touchpad that is void of any traditional mouse buttons. Instead, the entire touchpad is the button. The new MacBook's recognizes more gestures than previous versions since it recognizes up to four of fingers at a time. 
Toshiba's introduced the Portégé A605 notebook, a lightweight consumer notebook that borrows some features from the Portege R500 , but isn't quite as thin or light. The Portege A605 does have some sweet features, including an aluminum enclosure and 6.9 hours of battery life. 
The Dell Precision M6400 Covet Mobile Workstation is a serious piece of machinery, featuring an orange coat of paint and options to die for. For $3,859 you can get an entry-level M6400 Covet, but you can blow that price out of the water once you add options like an Intel Core 2 Quad QX9300 processor ($770) dual 500GB hard drives or dual 64GB solid state drives. 
HP's offering 30% off most of its consumer notebooks with coupon code "NB5440" through 10/28/08 or while supplies last. This coupon coffers massive discounts on HP Pavilion dv4, dv5, dv7 and tx2500z series notebooks priced at $999 or more. 
Hubert from Ubergizmo recently reviewed the Intel X25-M solid state drive by popping it into his aging Sony VAIO SZ notebook. The results were stunning, but $600 is still too much to pay for 80GB of storage no matter how fast it is. 
Panasonic showed off the world’s smallest notebook fuel cell and another fuel cell that can recharge mobile phones. Panasonic hopes to bring notebook fuel cells to market by 2012. 
Gateway's released the MC-Series, a new line of entertainment notebooks that feature a frameless 16-inch (16:9 1366x768) aspect ratio display. 
Apple announced that you can now buy high definition primetime shows form the four major TV networks for $2.99 per episode. The high definition shows can be viewed on your notebook or Apple TV. A standard definition version is included in the purchase price so you can watch them on your iPod or iPhone. 
The MacBooks and MacBook Pros announced earlier this week lack a Blu-ray option, a glaring omission for HD content creators. Steve Jobs called adding Blu-ray a "bag of hurt," but thankfully Amex Digital's figured out how to produce an external Blu-ray disc burner that can be used with MacBooks and MacBook Pros and will cost only $289. 
The guys from iFixIt tore apart a new MacBook Pro to explore and see what it'll be like to repair them. The MacBook Pro is meticulously disassembled in a 33-step guide. 
The tiny iHome iHM77 Capsule portable speakers blew away my expectations the minute I plugged them in to my iPhone. The speakers can fit in your pocket, but are louder than any internal notebook speaker I've heard and deliver more sound per ounce than any portable speaker I know of. 
