Asus has decided to make the Lamborghini VX5 laptop even faster with a 1TB SSD drive, making it the first model of its kind in the world. Unveiled before the CeBIT in Germany starts, the Lamborghini VX5 can store an enormous amount of data over a standard hard drive, while providing the benefits that only a SSD can issue – the load times faster, power consumption lower, and is less sensitive to shocks and falls. The Lamborghini VX5 laptop works with an Intel Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 130M GT graphics card, a backlit keyboard and a Blu-ray. The price is of course up to the performance.

Asus has announced the U and UX series ultra slim laptops that will be made apparent in the second quarter of this year. Both models will adopt a chiclet-style keyboard and a LED backlit self-control display. The U series has a 15.6-inch glossy LCD screen, and a touchpad with an interesting specification – the light gradually decreases to follow your fingers. You have an Intel Core 2 Duo, a NVIDIA GeForce G105M graphics card, a hard drive up to 500GB and Altec Lansing SRS true surround speakers. We know very little about the UX, we know only that it has an slot-in optical disk drive.

Then we would have thought that Asus to calm down a little on smartphones to its new partnership with Garmin and not Taiwan as the brand comes to formalize its new P835, which offers the 3G/3G+, a 3.5-inch touch screen with a resolution of 480×800 pixels, a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, a Qualcomm MSM7200A processor at 528Mhz, 256Mb ROM, 288Mb RAM, 4GB flash memory, a microSD memory port, an integrated GPS compatible with A-GPS, the Glide interface, Opera Mobile, Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR, WiFi, Windows Mobile 6.1, all in 115×59x13.8mm for 148g with a self-announced 6h in talking and 350h in standby.

The Commercial Times (in Chinese) said that Asus is about to release their Eee PC Shell in April. Yet, little is known about this netbook except some specifications: it will be thinner, more powerful and have better battery life than the Asus S101. You ask “how much?”. The same price than the high-end netbooks, between $480 and $580.

The latest laptop from Asus, the W90Vp-X1 includes a dual video card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 with 1GB of memory. In view of the specifications below, you will keep a number of years before changing it. But the Asus W90Vp-X1 weighs about 5.2kg. The W90Vp-X1 is available at Newegg for a price of $2200.

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In any case that’s what a representative from Asus said recently. Thence to whether the mobile phone will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2009, or whether to wait a bit … Anyway, the year 2009 is looming as a year decidedly rich of new things!

Asus has a new laptop, the N81Vg for people who want high performance laptops. It includes the following specifications:

• LED backlit 14″ display 1080p support
• Intel Core 2 Duo
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
• Hard drive up to 500GB
• Up to 4GB RAM
• DVD Super Multi

Its price and availability are not known. The design is pretty standard and has a look of very serious. This is not a gaming-oriented computer, but it can run the new games without any problem.

This new Asus gaming laptop is the most powerful laptop of the Asian manufacturer. It is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Quad QX9300 of 2.53 GHz, with 4 GB of RAM. Two hard drives of 500 GB have been installed for a total of 1000 GB running at 5400 rpm. It was therefore the quantity but not the operating speed. As the G70s, it has a combo Blu-ray drive / DVD burner. Asus has also incorporated into its gaming laptop all necessary accessories and outputs such as a 8-in-1 memory card reader, an HDMI output, e-Sata, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi n. The TV antenna is optional.

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Asus announced a new gaming laptop in its catalog. The G50v belongs to the Republic of Gamers range.

The G50v has a 15.4-inch display with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels. Asus provides in this gaming laptop a Centrino 2 platform. The processor used here is a Core 2 Duo P8600 at 2.4 GHz. 4GB RAM is installed in the G50v to ensure the good transfer of information. The 2 x 2 GB of DDR2 (800 MHz) operate in Dual Channel, which optimizes the performance of RAM. For the storage, we have a hard drive of 320 GB at 5400 rpm. A hard drive of 7200 rpm would have been valuable and even an SSD option. For the optical side, it has a double-layer DVD burner.

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The updated models of the Eee Box desktops, named Eee Box B204 and Eee Box B206 include an HDMI connection, which is a standard for television today. It is not surprising that Asus has also added Eee Cinema, an application that reads the multimedia content, including HD video – thanks to its ATI Radeon HD 3400 graphics processor of 256MB. Note that the Eee B206 has the WiFi-N, the fastest wireless standard in the market. It will be convenient for streaming media files from a remote server.

It will not be long before these desktops record the TV (+ $100) and read Blu-Ray (+ $150). For now, the price is too high, but this is a matter of time.