Sony VAIO pocket laptops make their first appearance at Sony official site sonyinsider.com. As a new member of Sony family, VAIO pocket notebook comes in 8 inch with (1600×768 pixel) LED backlit display. A rumor said that this new VAIO pocket asked for extremely 700 Euro or about $970. It seems too pricey for features packed inside as Intel Atom 1.33GHz, 2GB of memory, HDD up to 60GB storage, SSD upto 128GB, Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium (32 bit), if we compare it to the Dell netbooks lately.  Will Sony put that pricey rumor printed in their tag? We’ll see..

iLuv with the iHD171, an HD Radio with iPod / iPhone dock, support for iTunes tagging, alarm clock and a large display on which you can read information about the music being played. The device can be connected to a TV, so you video movies on your iPod can view.

The iHD171 offers jAura speaker technology, a 3.5 mm audio input, an ordinary AM / FM tuner, HD-FM radio and a memory for 30 stations. The price: 199.99 dollars.

Toshiba sees future in the delivery of music and movies on SD card, reports usnews.com. The company, in collaboration with MOD Systems has developed a system whereby consumers through an automatic DVD-quality movies to download to SD card, then to play on, for example, a set-top box or portable media player. Later, also of HD-quality movies are offered.

It seems Toshiba, which are HD-DVD format in the past year took place, the attack to work on Blu-ray, even though the company denies this. Advantages of the system that SD cards are much more “portable” than Blu-ray discs and that the equipment is much cheaper than a Blu-ray player.

Similarly, the films, which have a copy, have to compete with iTunes. At the launch, thousands of films available, including the big blockbusters.

The system will be demonstrated next week at the CES in Las Vegas. Mod Systems has been a test carried out with machines in Starbucks branches and electronics stores.

Notebook Packard Bell iPower GX, the company Packard Bell has focused not only on the technical characteristics but in the exterior design, striking first. The iPower GX has a 17-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, coated Diamond View with shiny black surfaces and aluminum mates. It also has an Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA graphics card FeForce 9800 GTS with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory dedicated VRAM and up to 4 GB of RAM. 

The Packard Bell iPower GX can also be used as a multimedia computer. The resolution of your screen makes it particularly suitable for high-definition video, although its use would be fully connected to an external display, but neither is included or HDMI output and Blu-Ray reader. The hard disk can be up to 640 GB. What has care Packard Bell is the battery, which is nine cells, which increases the weight greatly. However, this type of portable, usually at home or at least close to a power source, no particular need for high-capacity batteries, so that is a more superficial essential, as it could have been the HDMI connection . 

The price of the Notebook iPower GX is $1800

The new MSI U115 of the Taiwanese computer manufacturer itself netbook the first in the world with both a hard drive 120/160GB as an SSD of 8/16GB on board. The laptopje has a 10 inch screen and has a 1.6 GHz Atom Z530 processor, 1GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11n, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 4-in-1 memory card reader, three USB 2.0 ports, one VGA Output and Windows XP.

The MSI U115 can obviously the SSD hard drive and at the same time, but can only work with the SSD to save energy. The device comes standard with a 3-cell battery. Optionally, you can opt for a 6-cell battery. Bluetooth is also an option.