Dell has recently taken to announce a new addition to their laptop lineup, the Inspiron 17. This is a bit of a larger laptop than Dell’s other offerings as it features a LED backlit 17.3-inch display with a 1600×900 resolution.

As for specs, you’ll be able to choose from a 2GHz Pentium dual-core processor all the way up to a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. The base model is configured with 2GB or Ram, integrated graphics, 160GB harddrive and Vista Home Basic. Best of all it ships with an extremely justifiable price tag of just $499.

If you’re looking to go a bit higher than said price that then you can opt for a Blu-ray drive, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 GPU with 256MB of dedicated RAM. Electronista reports that in September you will also be given the option of 512MB of dedicated video RAM along with a 1080p display.

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Now don’t get all scared/excited folks! This is just a rumor circling the web today. It seems that Apple is considering replacing NVIDIA chips in its future Macs as it looks like negotiations between the two companies have come to a halt. Is AMD/ATI stepping in? Are we going to see Apple work with Intel? Are the new Macs going to have Core i7 chips under the hood? Is that even possible at this point? Right now we don’t have any official position from neither Apple nor NVIDIA. We can assume that Apple is punishing NVIDIA for the recent chip defects spotted in new Macs. And considering the fact that the Cupertino-based company has been hiring lots of former AMD graphics employees we can also assume that something’s happening and the future of MacBooks might be totally different.

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Sony has recently come forth and announced their latest VAIO offering, the NW — This notebook will feature a 15.5-inch WXGA display with XBRITE, a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of DDR2 RAM an ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 video card with 512MB of ram. Additionally it will have support for 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, a 400GB harddrive, and battery options of 1.5 hours all the way up to 5.5 hours.

The real selling point of this machine, however, is it’s 4x BD-ROM drive which coupled with it’s VGA and HDMI outputs make it a great entertainment option. Lastly, the VAIO NW features support slots for Memory Stick Pro, ExpressCard and SD cards.

The VAIO NW will ship sometime next month starting at $880 with the BD-ROM drive and $800 without.

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A new Dell Studio 15 laptop is available, the Studio 1555, and it has been leaked by Dell’s support site. Its support page includes drivers for ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU. That means you will be able to choose between the current Studio 15 Intel 4500MHD or this ATI video card. No official information about the upgrade is available yet as the model hasn’t been launched officially. We’re waiting for Dell’s announcement of the new Studio 1555 for availability dates and pricing details.

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Toshiba announced the new Toshiba Satellite A215 notebook computer, featuring AMD’s latest mobile dual-core processors including the Turion 64 X2 Gold Edition and Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor. The Satellite A215 is equipped with ATI Radeon X1200 graphics. One of the higher end models in the A215 series, the Satellite A215-S7472, boasts an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics card with 128 megs of memory for better aming and graphics.

The series also includes a serial-ATA hard drive (with capacities up to 250GB), a DVD SuperMulti drive and 15.4 inch diagonal widscreen TruBrite display. Certain configurations in the Satellite A215 series also come with 1.3 megapixel webcam, Labelflash technology and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 for Toshiba.

The Toshiba Satellite A215 configurations are now available.

Satellite A215-S7472: $1,199.99

Satellite A215-S7437: $899.99

Satellite A215-S7407: $649.99ToshibaDirect

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