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Alienware’s latest gaming laptop behemoth has landed in the US, and the Area-51 m17 should be plenty powerful enough to play the latest titles.

The 17inch screen and packed-in components make the m17 very much a desktop replacement rather than something you will be lugging round with you on your Sunday foray to Coffee Republic. But for gamers who want a degree of portability it certainly packs a hefty punch.

High-end

An Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX in a dual GPU SLI configuration, Intel’s Core 2 extreme processor and up to 4 gigs of RAM makes the little-shy-of-5kg weight slightly more understandable.

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Dell on Friday said it has stopped shipment of two Vostro laptop models in Europe after discovering a faulty keyboard design with a few keys out of place.

A Dell customer in the U.K., who ordered the Vostro 1310, noticed that the bottom row of letters on the keyboard was shifted to the right. That’s because the left Shift key is oversized and a new key, \, is placed between the Shift and Z keys, moving the entire row so that it doesn’t comply with a traditional keyboard layout.

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Intel has unveiled the second-generation model of its Classmate PC at its Developer Forum in Shanghai this week.

The machine uses the same 900MHz Celeron M processor as the first model, and has been well received with initial reports commenting positively on its chunky aesthetic, seven- and nine-inch screens, 512MB RAM and 30GB hard disk.

Intel also claims that the second-gen Classroom has an improved battery life with the option of both four- and six-cell batteries, and has named this class of PC as the ‘netbook’. The company is promoting them as ‘blueprints’ for laptop manufacturers.

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No need to reset. This US concept is an interesting one - a replacement laptop battery that powers your laptop while you swap the old one out. The innovation is the brainchild of “professional independent inventor” Ric Richardson.

Richardson has applied for the relevant patents and is hoping to sell the concept to leading laptop manufacturers.

The replacement battery has a power cable that you hook up to your laptop. You take the old battery out, then slot the new one in with the cable still in place before removing the connector. Simple genius indeed.

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