Another Dell goes boom two days ago, exploding battery. An IT admin, Douglas Brown’s who was working at an Ohio hospital got his Dell 9200 caught fire inside his home. He said that it looks like fireworks.

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XtremeNotebook has released their Xtreme 917V notebook, the first laptop in US to offer the new Intel Core 2 Quad processor in its Xtreme 917V notebook. It features RAID 0, 1 or 5, a dual video card setup, and the choice between triple Solid State or SATA 300 hard drives. Xtreme 917V notebook will be from $3,359 onwards.

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HP Korea has released their new 12.1-inch wide ‘Compaq Presario B1200’ notebook pc. Weighing at 1.72 kg, it is powered by Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo CPU and running Windows Vista Business. It comes along with a Super Multi 8x DVD±RW with Double Layer Support and Intel GMA X3100 graphic technology. HP Compaq Presario B1200 comes with a suggested price of 1,000,000 KRW ($1075).
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Sony has released its Vaio FZ2 series laptops. These new laptops will come with a 15.4-inch WXGA displays and you can choose from two processors, the Core 2 Duo T7250 or T7500. They will be 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and your choice of Blu-ray or DVD combo drives. The Sony FZ2 laptops will be price $1,299 or $1,399 depending on your configuration.

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Hey honey, you’re just in time! I’m cooking french fries! Oh shit! My laptop! The story goes like this, Barb Howe lives in a high crime area so the only safe place she figures out to hide her laptop, was in the oven. The thing started to melt when GIL starts to cook some french fries, that cooking was at 300 degrees and for about 5 minutes…
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Fujitsu has launched a 17-inch notebook PC that supports Blu-ray, the LifeBook N6460. It is powered by a Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 CPU(2GHz) and boasts an ATI Radeon HD 2600(512MB), 2GB DDR2 667MHz SDRAM, dual drive including 500GB capacity, and 1GB Turbo memory. Fujitsu LifeBook N6460 will available in a suggested price between $1,499 and $2,599. More pictures after the jump.
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Gigabyte has launched their 12.-inch wide notebook PC in Korea, the W251 G5 which has won the 2006 G-Mark Award for its sleek black design. It is powered by on Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 processor and boasts a 12.1-inch WXGA LCD, 2GB RAM, S-ATA 120GB hard disk, DVD Super Multi optical drive, Bluetooth connectivity, 1.3-megapixel webcam and supports WLAN. The notebook comes with a suggested price of KRW 900, 000 that’s about a thousand bucks after conversion. More pictures after the jump.
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Here’s the 20.1 inch HP Pavilion HDX notebook PC. It is based on Santa Rosa platform and powered by Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz T7500 / 2.4GHz T7700 or 2.6GHz Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor. The HP Pavilion HDX comes with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 512MB memory, up to 4GB RAM, HD DVD drive, 1680 x 1050 resolution, 320GB hard drive, HDTV Hybrid TV Tuner, fingerprint reader, Bluetooth, a/b/g/n wireless, webcam, HDMI and it’s running on Windows Vista os. The HP Pavilion HDX notebook PC goes for $3000.

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HP Korea has launched their special edition notebook PCs, the Pavilion dv6500 influx (dv6537TX, dv6536TX). They feature a high glossy ceramic finish and pure white color. They are priced from 1,490,000(KRW) to 1,590,000(KRW) that is $1630 to $1740 after conversion. More shots after the jump.
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Samsung Electronics is launching their new 19-inch Desknote ‘Sens G25’ in Korea market in late July. Designed in high glossy black and boasts a SATA2 320GB hard disk and seven USB2.0 ports. Its 19-inch wide LCD supports 1000:1 contrast ratio and 300cd/m2 brightness. This laptop comes with number keypad and AC power supply just like the desktop PC. Samsung Desknote ‘Sens G25’ will be priced around 1,000,000KRW (approx. $1100). More pictures after the jump.
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