Linux fans will be able to order an Inspiron 1505 with Ubuntu later this week, according to an internal memo from a Dell employee. 
In this video, MIT professor and One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte's spends about 90% of his time traveling around the globe to promote the $100 laptop project. He appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about the project's progress and what he calls unfair competition from Intel. 
Western Digital today announced it is now shipping its 250 GB WD Scorpio 2.5-inch SATA hard drives. The drives employ perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve the highest capacity 2.5-inch drive to date. 
AMD's new Puma platform will roll out in the middle of 2008, which includes AMD's next-generation "Griffin" notebook processor and AMD RS780 mobile chipset. Puma is designed to deliver battery life, graphics and video processing enhancements and improved overall system performance for an enhanced visual experience. 
Dell's jumping into the Tablet PC market later this year. The convertible notebook will feature a touchscreen and be one of the thinest and lightest on the market, according to Jeff Clarke, a senior vice president at Dell. 
Sony will be selling a special edition Sony Type T 10th Anniversary notebook with an optional 32GB solid state drive AND a 160GB hard disk drive. This dual-drive solution offers users the speed of SSD and the high capacity of HDD. 
HP's Philip McKiney showed off a prototype of its ebook reader last week at the HP Mobillity Summit in Shangha. HP Labs is trying to make flipping through eBooks and photo albums as intuitive as reading a book. Continue reading to see the video. 
Philip McKiney, CTO of HP's Personal Systems Group, gave notebooks.com a demo of Web Signs, a prototype location based service (LBS). The system combines a digital compass with a GPS-enabled PocketPC to search the web by pointing the device at any location. It's an innovative way to search for information without text. 
If you've got lots of notebooks and sick of fumbling around with USB plugs you should take a look at the Belkin Network USB Hub. It works with your existing wireless router to give you wireless access to printers, media readers, and external hard drives from all of your computers.The Belkin USB Hub has five ports and simulates a direct USB connection that makes your computer think that the devices on the network are directly attached to the computer. 
Fujitsu announced its first ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) today. Built for for business users, the U Series is the world's smallest tablet-convertible UMPC, weighing only 580g and measuring 26.5mm thick. The FMV-U8240 features a 5.6" (1024x600) widescreen display. 
Lenovo's getting ready to give the X60 notebook and X60 tablet some Santa Rosa love. According to some internal docs, the new X61 models will run on Intel Core 2 Duo processors, Intel GMA X3100 graphics and have draft 802.11n wireless connectivity. 
HP's introducing two cheap notebooks, the HP 530 GH645AT for consumers and the HP 530 GH640AT for home business users. These notebooks will be available at office stores and brick and mortar retailers everywhere. Dell is having a one-day sale on its Inspiron 1501 notebook with 15.4"widescreen, AMD Turion TM X2 dual-core processor, 1GB of Memory, 80GB hard drive and CD/DVD Burner. 
Apple announced upgrades to its line of entry-level notebooks today. The refreshed MacBooks come with faster processors and bigger hard drives. Featuring Core 2 Duo processors, with speeds up to 2.16GHz, all of the new MacBooks come with 4MB of L2 cache and 1GB of memory. 