HP crams Fermi-based Quadro 5000M GPU inside 17-inch EliteBook

Gotta live up to the name , right HP? NVIDIA’s new pro graphics solution for mobile creatives, the Quadro 5000M, was unsheathed only yesterday but HP appears to have been first in line to get some of that new 40nm goodness. Electronista reports that the world leader in PC shipments is readying a 5000M solution for its 8740w EliteBook, which will bring 320 CUDA cores and a jumbo 2GB of dedicated memory to the party

Ask Engadget: best desktop replacement laptop?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Cameron, who’d rather buy the most powerful laptop the world has to offer than subject himself to a “desktop PC.” If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com .

Dell ships Precision M6500 laptop with 32GB of RAM: drill, baby, drill

Nah, that’s not us yelling to dig deeper into oceanic unknowns — it’s a megaphone originating from Dell’s campus in Round Rock. As the story goes, Dell’s “oil and gas” consumers have been clamoring for more system memory on their mobile workstations, with the revamped Precision M6500 — which allows them to “review larger slices of the earth to find oil, enabling faster and more accurate drilling to find oil and gas reserves.” We say all that to mention the 32GB of system RAM that’s now shipping on fully loaded M6500s, but with four RAM slots, that’s not as difficult to accomplish as you might expect. Still, having 32GB in a single laptop is a rare sight these days, and if you aren’t into coughing up a fistful of Benjamins for that, Dell’s Precision M4500 is now available with 16GB of memory.

Pogoplug Biz adds corporate skinning, usage stats and other metrics

Remember that second generation Pogoplug we unboxed last December? Meet its corporate cousin, fresh out of LinkedIn and ready for that 40 hour work week

ASUS UL-series laptops surface at e-tailers with Core i3 ULV processor

If the pint-sized ASUS laptop above looks a wee bit familiar, it’s because you’ve seen it before — the 12-inch UL20FT is basically a refreshed UL20A, but with the surprisingly elusive Core i3 ULV guts. The UL20FT appeared at ExcaliberPC this weekend, while its Optimus-equipped big brother appears destined for Amazon; in a slight change of plans, both feature the 1.2GHz Core i3-330UM processor. While the $600 UL20FT is a solid netbook alternative, the $900 UL80JT has double the capacity (500GB) and memory (4GB) plus an optical disc drive, and if our review of its doppelganger is any indication, the 14-inch switchable graphics machine will have stellar battery life

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 series to be phased out, replaced by T400 this year

We’re not sure what tea they’re being served in the Far East these days, but the peeps at Lenovo have somehow convinced themselves to let go of the legendary 13-inch ThinkPad X301 and replace it with the 14-inch T410s by the end of the year. Ouch.

Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs to tape out ahead of schedule, could be with us this year

Right now, Intel has every right to lay contentedly atop the laurels of its biggest quarterly profit ever , but that’s not what the company is doing at all.

Toshiba Portege R705 review

Stuck on the Toshiba Portege R705’s magnesium alloy palmrest is a shiny sticker celebrating the company’s 25 years of “laptop innovation.” Now, we’re the first to hate on the plethora of decals that festoon Windows laptops these days — and this one also deserves to be peeled off and tossed into the garbage — but the sticker actually happens to speaks volumes about why the $800 R705 is such a big deal. We promise to keep the history lesson short, but for years the Portege series has been Toshiba’s top-of-the-line ultraportable brand, featuring the latest CPUs while usually setting the standard for portability, and always been attached to seriously hefty price tags

ASUS Eee PC 1215N to ship in the US at the end of August

With the NVIDIA Ion 2-powered Acer Aspire One 532g falling by the wayside and the ASUS Eee PC 1201PN hitting the market sans NVIDIA Optimus , all eyes are on the ASUS Eee PC 1215N to be the true Ion 2 machine. Well, super-charged netbook fans, we’ve got good news: the 12-inch laptop, which has a 1.8GHz dual-core Atom D525 CPU and NVIDIA’s Optimus to intelligently switch between discrete and integrated graphics, will ship in the US around August 23.

Sony VAIO EC Series review (VPCEC25FX/WI)

Sony’s always had a knack for making some of the best multimedia laptops around, and the VAIO EC Series is all about continuing the trend. The desk-dominating 17.3-inch laptop is a monster of a machine, and has the internal guns to match - it’s got a Core i3 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics card, 4GB of RAM, 500GB of storage and a Blu-ray drive

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