Fujitisu looks to be adding yet more options to its Lifebook line of laptops, introducing newly-upgraded H-Series, E-Series, and S-Series models.

Of the three, the H-Series comes out on top in terms of specs (and price), with the new FMV-H8240 model boasting a 15.4-inch WUXGA display, along with a Core 2 Duo of an unspecified sort, an unspecified NVIDIA graphics card, a max up 4GB of RAM, and 60GB hard drive.

In the middle of the lot, the FMV-E8240 also boasts a yet-to-be-determined Core 2 Duo procesor, with your choice of WXGA or WSXGA+ 15.4-inch displays, a 40GB hard drive, and a max 4GB of RAM.

Lastly, the FMV-S8340 takes a slightly more portable route with its 13.3-inch WXGA display, along with that same unspecified Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a promised 5.5 hours of battery life.

Look for all three to hit Japan between May and June, with prices ranging from ¥221,550 to ¥351,750 (or roughly $1,860 to $2,955).

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Toshiba has finally shed the frumpy aesthetics of its Oosmio GXX line of desktop replacements and co-opted the clean white lines of the R400 for the brand new Qosmio G40.

There's the "usual" 17-inch 1920 x 1200 screen, dual 200GB hard drives, T7300P Core 2 Duo processor (Santa Rosa), 2GB of RAM and other basic necessities like that, but things get extra interesting with the 512MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics, an HD DVD-R drive and HDMI 1.3.

The laptop should be come to at least Europe in June, with an asking price of around 3000 euros (about $4004 US).

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After having bemusedly watched the jokesters at LAPTOP magazine struggle to operate a Dell M2010 laptop in public, we're pretty sure it's only the most hardcore of LAN partygoers who are snatching up these 20-inch models -- so it must be this small but dedicated demographic that Las Vegas-based MALIBAL is targeting with the new Veda series of desktop replacements.

Almost certainly rebadges, the first round of Vedas do indeed offer some pretty impressive components, including dual core AMD Turion 64 X2 processors, up to two NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX cards in SLI pushing 1,680 x 1,050 pixels, as much as 4GB of RAM and 400GB of storage, along with integrated TV tuners, dual-layer DVD burners, and the seemingly de rigueur 1.3 megapixel webcam.

Available only through MALIBAL directly, this model starts out at $2,799 and keeps moving skyward until it's too expensive to take out of the house.

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Even though it's pretty obvious that Anna Lopez's Cario concept notebook is only meant to be used while parked outside your localNeighbourFi hotspot , there are enough idiots out there who would be surfing while driving that we kind of hope the design lives and dies as a CAD file on Ms. Lopez's PC.

Only slightly less dangerous than some of the in-car offices we've seen, the Cario seems to use its lid for support while the user types at a rather uncomfortable angle directly on the screen -- if ever a product screamed for a Bluetooth keyboard, it's this one right here.

All in all not a bad idea for those unfortunate individuals who work out of their cars, and despite the fact that we already have a pretty snazzy in-dash PC, we're starting to regret the fact that we replaced our factory steering wheel with one of those tiny, Cario-incompatible chain link numbers. Fashion over function, ya know?

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