Dell has the new Inspiron 8600 Ambassador / Moebius online and ready.

• Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Prozessoren-M @ 400 MHz up to 1.7 Ghz
• up to 2048 MB DDR-SDRAM @ 333 MHz in 2 Slots (needing hell expensive 1 gig modules)
• 15,4" UltraSharp? WUXGA Display (1920 x 1200)
• 128 MB nVidia GeForceFX Go 5650 - that's a higher frequency 5600 Modell DirectX9 chipset
• DVD+RW or CDRW Combo
• WLAN 802.11 b/g + built in antennas
• 2,99kg
• highest value at best price

but - no back-pack for this wide profile notebook offered??? - I suppose that's a new formfactor or so... but I don't want to have the weight of this goodie on one shoulder everyday - still remember the old donkey-trip with my previous configuration.

and - where are the good reviews from the mags? all I found was a PCW review for the October issue ... to new or what? any hints or review-links are highly appreciated...

With this top-book@1gig you should get the top-performance for mobile development - especially Java + Database + Appserver on a notebook could kill other configurations soon.

btw: this is no marketing rave, I will get this notebook next and report about it.

On Designtechnica we can read about Netgear taking wireless speeds to the next level with the introduction of the WGT624 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router and WG511T 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card.

NEC 1300A Firmware 105v11 is out! hehe - I have not yet flashed the original firmware upgrade to 106 - herrie's hack is sufficient...
And it seems as if herrie advances past the simple "switch new DVD media free"-stage to really improving the software over the original (if you check the Bios-detection feature e.g.). I will definately give it a try soon - now check the features...

EarthV.com - iPod killer! Toshiba Gigabeat G20

a bit smaller and lighter than the new iPod 15 GB with 5 gigabytes more size and still running for 11 hours. IF you are into japanse, checkout toshiba's jap product page, this gadget will be released in Oct 2003 in Japan - further plans not yet available, but this thing will sure bring some imports or Euro/US sales success.

another report at the register

Scuttlebutt ist Booting into IDEA on Linux from USBStick - unfortunately my PC doesn't support USB booting - although I am not sure if ZIP-booting will enable USBstick booting aswell... Build a Gentoo install/boot/rescue LiveCD USB is cool - I just wait for a WindowsPE to be bootable via USBstick (hmmm - USBstick is writable, so Windows2000/XP should be fine aswell - PE is only required for readonly-devices...)

Unofficial Club Sony Ericsson - P810/P900 has from unofficial yet accurate sources the specifications/design of the P810/P900... The Register has a few more comments on it...