Sumo’s laptop bag

If you’re worried about your laptop sleeve not keeping your precious laptop protected, you might need a slightly more tough laptop sleeve. Well why not have one that is from a line called Sumo? I’m not really sure what a Sumo wrestler has to do with my laptop, but hey, it seems like a sturdy case.

The line offers several different colors, one of which being pink, although I’ve never seen a Sumo wrestler associated with anything pink. The sleeves are padded corduroy and feature a quilted design.

The front has a Velcro closure and a padded liner. The sleeves can fit either a 12”, 13”, 15” or 17” laptop and come in black, green, red, orange and pink. The colors do vary some depending on which size you pick.techdigest

Vespa XP

This Vespa is bright red, has a Louis Vuitton seat, a custom spare tire (that doesn’t look like it could actually work on the Vespa) and an LCD touchscreen Windows XP computer. It also won the award for “Best Modern Vespa” at the Amerivespa contest.

It has the speakers, cooling vents on the side, and all the usual software all built in. I definitely wouldn’t recommend leaving this Vespa in the rain.

My only question is which cost more, the Vespa or the touchscreen LCD PC? I must admit, the flashy spare tire on the back and the LV seat material give it that extra flair to make this thing the most Hood Rich scooter too. [gizmowatch]

Pink computer

Maybe it’s the shade or hue of pink that it is, but I feel the gag reflex going to work every time I look at it. Get this, the url you go to, to buy one of these, pinkcomputer.co.uk, that’s hilarious to me.

Other than being obnoxiously pink, it also has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a DVD burner, 150GB HDD, and 6 USB ports. So, its nothing special, but its respectable and is a good start for the female geek that wants to get into computer building, since you could start by adding graphics, sound, and TV Tuner cards as well as some more hard drive space.

Good luck finding matching Pink peripherals and monitors and speakers, as I’d hope that any of those that are pink, are a better color of pink. You can get one for £409 or about $800. [ss]

Sony offers up new skins Vaio T series

Sony is bumping the processor speed for their T series Vaio’s from 1.06GHz to 1.2GHz. On top of that, from Sony Vaio Style Japan you’ll be able to get some new skins for your notebook.

A couple of the skins look fairly professional, kind of like nice wallpaper, while the other two offer some actual art for the back of your notebook. The extra 140MHz on the processor speed isn’t that big of a deal, but it might be noticeable when you try and multi-task on your notebook.

The new Vaio T series notebooks with these skins are selling for $1583 in Japan. Of course the regular colors will still be available as well. [akihabaranews]

Windows 7

There's no telling how legitimate these shots might be, and it's quite clear that these screens won't be giving us any juicy details about Windows 7 anytime soon, but we couldn't pass on images that purport to be the first from a super-secret test build of Windows 7 seeded to "key partners." So, anything to see here? Not that we can tell, from the looks of things we're looking at a copy of Vista with the name "Windows 7 Ultimate" tacked on, but there's no telling what's happening under the hood. We know we can't wait to pay another few hundred dollars for a barely noticeable upgrade to Vista that will re-break all driver support, how about you?

Digital-Media Desktop PC

The HP Pavilion Elite M9040N has to be one PC that has helped Hewlett Packard stay in front when it comes to sales figures with Dell. This Digital-Media Desktop PC has their latest design and all of the latest hardware to make these computers both fast and reliable.

Cnet Reviews decided to put the HP Pavilion Elite M9040N through its paces to see how well it performs, and as you would expect it excelled in some areas, while being poor in others.

The processor used is the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, memory is a massive 3GB of RAM, and storage comes from a 320GB that runs at 7000rpm. As we said what makes this computer so good are its nice design, and also a wireless network adapter. The downside is the lack of Bluetooth and too many hard drive bays. [cnet]

Feacher-xp=Vista

I call it XP features that are lost in Vista.

However, Microsoft refer to many of these XP items as 'deprecated' in Vista. The term deprecated carries with it the nuance that the old feature has been superseded by a newer feature. For example, there is an element of truth that the job of the old XP 'Run Command' has been incorporated in Vista's Start Search.Ten XP Features which can legitimately be called 'deprecated' in Vista

Run Box / Command - Solution either use Start Search, or Windows Key +r.

Documents and Settings - C:\users.

Standby - Gone replaced by a better 'Sleep'. Also hibernate.

Properties, replaced by Personalize. For example, in Vista if you right-click the Desktop you see 'Personalize' and not properties.

Log Off Confirmation. Vista no longer asks for confirmation when you select 'Log Off', or even 'Shutdown' if you configure it. The assumption is that we all know what we are doing and therefore don't need another dialog box.

Explorer Menu (File....Edit....Tools) - Just press the Alt key.

Vista does not remember Explorer setting - View Menu ---> Apply to all folders.

Add or Remove Programs - Control Panel --> Programs'Turn Windows features on or off'.

Ctrl Windows Key +f does not launch the regular Search, but Active Directory's 'Find'.

Boot.ini replaced by bcdedit. (Boot Configuration Data)