Those of you interested in the Dell Precision M6400 notebook series, will be pleased to hear that AMD will soon be outfitting them with their ATI FirePro M7740 GPUs, which will offer a serious graphics boost.

Those of you interested in the Dell Precision M6400 notebook series, will be pleased to hear that AMD will soon be outfitting them with their ATI FirePro M7740 GPUs, which will offer a serious graphics boost.

Scant details of Lenovo’s upcoming IdeaPad, the U450p, have appeared on the company’s site. While full specifications, pricing and release availability are unknown, the IdeaPad U450p is known to have a “nice” 14-inch display and Core 2 Duo ULV processor (most likely from Intel’s CULV range).

Acer have officially announced the Aspire Timeline 1810T, the company’s latest CULV ultraportable and the effective replacement to the Aspire One 751. Spotted to preorder yesterday, the Timeline 1810T has now made an appearance on the Acer site.

The Foxconn iPhone prototype suicide story continues, with the NY Times suggesting that the company has given ex-employee Sun Danyong’s family the equivalent of more than $44,000 together with an Apple laptop to his girlfriend. However the Foxconn security official accused of mistreating Sun maintains that he merely “became a little angry” and grabbed the engineers shoulder, while Foxconn themselves claim that Sun had “lost” and then rediscovered multiple prototypes before.

Details of Acer’s new mainstream business notebooks have emerged, the Acer Travelmate Timeline series. As the name suggests, the range is based on the existing 13.3-inch, 14-inch and 15.6-inch Aspire 3810T, 4810T and 5810T Timeline models, complete with their CULV low-voltage processors. However the new Travelmates have magnesium alloy chassis for improved durability, together with dedicated anti-shock software and biometric security.

Toshiba may not have the fashionable appeal of Apple, nor the solid reputation of Lenovo, but they do know how to push the envelope. Their Portégé series of ultraportables is already slim, and was the first to offer a 128GB SSD back in 2008; now it’s the first, in the shape of the Portégé R600, to offer a 512GB SSD. Legitimate business tool or shallow one-upmanship? SlashGear decided to find out.

If there’s one thing this dour economy is good for, it’s pushing down prices. Walmart have just announced that they’ll be offering a $298 notebook, the Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM, complete with a 160GB hard-drive and 3GB of RAM, from July 26th at 8am. The promotion is part of the retailer’s back-to-school sale, and they’re unsurprisingly warning that stocks will be limited.

Dell’s Adamo is admirable for a Windows ultraportable, but when they snuck glances over at Apple’s notebook range they really should’ve stopped before they got to the prices. $1,999 was simply more than most people were willing to pay; happily Dell have finally realized that, and cut the entrance price to their Adamo range to $1,499.

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Acer subsidiary Packard Bell are set to release a CULV ultraportable for the European market. The Packard Bell Butterfly S FC has a 13-inch display and uses Intel's 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo SU3500 processor, with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard-drive.
It’s not just HP’s blunt-edged Mini 5101 netbook that has gone on sale today; the ProBook 4310s ultraportable is also a débutante to HP’s online store. Packing a choice of Core 2 Duo processors, paired with up to 8GB of RAM and a choice of hard-drives up to 500GB, the ProBook 4310s has a 13.3-inch HD display and starts from $779.
