We thought all the Penryn updates had been completed by now, but now we have news that Dell has released a new laptop with a Penryn chip. Only a day after the news that there would be Pentyn processors in the Precision M2300 and M4300. As of now, you can purchase the machines with a 2.5GHz T9300 or 2.6GHz T9500, both of which include 6MB of L2 cache.

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Acer has released many laptops in the past year, but that doesn’t stop them from expanding their selection even further, with the company now reportedly planning on releasing a pair of new notebooks sporting Blu-ray drives and high res screens. It is not entirely offical at this time, but DigiTimes reports that the laptops will consist of a 16-inch and an 18.4-inch model, both of which will feature a “Full HD panel”. Unfortunately at this time, we have no other details on the laptops, but they will be priced between $1,900 and $2,240 when they released in the second quarter of this year.

Via Electronista

Today, LG’s 13.3-inch P300 was released in Europe. Leaving Americans sad that they have been left out. The stylish LED-backlit 13.3-inch laptop features a Intel T8300 processor, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, an NVIDIA graphics set, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera, dual-layer DVD writer and two USB 2.0 ports. Price is set at €1,599 ($2,350). All you Europeans don’t rub it in too much.

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There have been many reviews of Lenovo’s slim new X300, but if you still are not sure if you want to buy it check out some benchmarks and video courtesy of NoteBook review. Lenovo’s X300 did not surprise us much, the X300 trailed both the Macbook Air and Sony Vaio TZ in processor tests, but won for overall system performance. The video (after the jump) shows off the X300 from every angle and compares it to the Thinkpad T61 and X61.
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Apple has just released OS X 10.5.2, and it weighs in at ‘massive’ 180MB. As we thought this update has many needed fixes, including Active Directory, AirPort, BTMM, Dashboard, Finder, iCal, iChat, iSync, Dock Mail, Preview, Safari, Time Machine, and many more.

Fixes include:

RAW support: Now supports more RAW formats
AirPort: Improves connection reliability and stability.
Dashboard: Widget performance improvements.
Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features.

Intel is known for their mighty Core 2 Duo, but it looks as though the processor was not home-grown. A lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors. In 1998, the computer science department chair Gurindar Sohi presented some of his ideas relating to instruction level parallelism to Intel and offered to sell them, but Intel never paid for them yet used them to created the Core 2 Duo, according the the lawsuit. Intel says that it’s been talking to the Badgers for over a year and has not recieived a complaint, Intel may want to do something quick because the University of Wisconsin is asking for the court to stop shipments of the Core 2 Duo in addition to monetary damages and legal fees.

Dell’s newest laptop, soon to be announced Latitude E-series has been leaked. All we know at the time is it will weigh 4.25 pounds, come in 14.1-inch and 15.4-inch versions, and will have WXGA and WXGA+ LED backlit displays. We believe they will also feature DisplayPort, eSATA, and ExpressCard slots. More soon to come.

Fujitsu’s Lifebook P8010 is a beautiful ultra portable that looks to be just as nice as the Macbook Air. The processor may not be any good because it is called a SL7100 VL processor. We do not know the real speed. The Lifebook is under the FCC’s review and should be available soon.

Specs:

Three USB 2.0 ports
WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity
80GB hard drive
4GB RAM (maximum)
SL7100 VL processor
Integrated graphics chipset

Everex’s gOS Cloudbook was supposed to be available at walmart today but due to needed software tweaks it will not be available for some time. According to the company’s director of marketing, Paul Kim, the system requires, “A couple of last minute software tweaks,” before it’s ready to hit stores. The exact date when it will be available is unknown, sometime in February. The $399 computer runs gOS, which is Linux, based on the popular Ubuntu distribution but with a unique user interface designed smaller screens like CloudBook’s 7-in. (diagonal) display.

We have seen many gadgets drop in price but never a drop from $1500 to $700 in a single day. They must want to sell them fast because they have a new version coming out soon. Most likely they just weren’t selling like predicted.