In the beginning of this month Sony announced one more ultraportable notebook line - Sony VAIO TZ series.

TZ series were building on the experiences and success of the previous Sony VAIO TX notebook line. Sony VAIO TZ laptops kept the same screen size (11.1″), but got lighter (1.19 kg) and stronger thanks to carbon fibre re-enforcement technology more familiar in the world of Formula One racing.

But Sony VAIO TZ notebooks were available only in Japan so far. Not anymore. As of today, VAIO TZ notebooks have been officially launched in Europe.

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Today BenQ has expanded it’s Santa Rosa notebook line with the release of the new 13.3″ Widescreen ultraportable laptops - BenQ Joybook S32/S32W.

As most of the latest Joybooks, BenQ S32/32W has the great shiny looks, utilizing BenQ’s Laminated Color metal technology. It comes in two - black and white colors.

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The wait is over and Dell Ubuntu Linux notebooks and desktops systems are here.

Today Dell has officially launched 3 new systems - Dell Inspirion E1505n notebook, Dell Dimension E520n and XPS 410n desktops - with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled.

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What’s with Samsung and it’s obsession with thinness?

First they went for the worlds thinnest laptop - Samsung X11. Then they’ve got worlds slimmest phone - Samsung X820. Then, with Samsung Ultra Edition II, their phones got even thinner .

And now it’s time for the thinnest Samsung Ultra Slim Mouse 8.0.

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They say that imitation is the ultimate form of flattery. In that case AOpen must be the ultimate flatterer. As soon as MacMini launched, AOpen came out with their minPC version.

Then they came up with their own version of Shuttle XPC - small form factor AOpen XC Cube barebone system.

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Unlike X60 Core Duo Tablet PC, that took almost a year to get launched after the first leaks have appeared on the net, Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Santa Rosa based tablet PC will see the light pretty soon.

A draft of the Lenovo X61 Tablet PC announcement letter has prematurely appeared on the on IBM site and was promptly spotted by Tablet PC review.

The letter was meant to be kept confidential until May 31st and states that Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC will be available in June. It also has all the specs and configurations for it.

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Fujitsu took its time - more then a year - with it’s first UMPC offering. But instead of having a simple UMPC, they decided to build on their Tablet PCs/Convertible notebook experience. And produced something really interesting - Fujitsu U Series Tablet Convertible UMPC.

Fujitsu Lifebook U8240 is the first of the devices to use this design. It is built on “Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007″ and features:

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Toshiba Tecra M9 Centrino Pro notebook is the first Toshiba’s business notebook to get Santa Rosa chip upgrade.

Since it was not able to field a lot of configuration options for the business flagship, Toshiba went to great lengths to get the price/spec equation for Tecra M9 right.

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Gateway wasn’t the vendor to announce the biggest number of laptops with next gen Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) chips inside. But it is among the first to actually start shipping them to the buyers.

In addition to it’s 14.1″ Gateway E-265M laptop, Gateway also decided to upgrade it’s popular 15.4″ notebook line with Santa Rosa chips.

The result is Gateway E-475M 15.4″ desktop replacement notebook.

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Last week week was a boon for various PC and laptop news outlets. With the official launch of next gen Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) mobile processor platform, every laptop vendor felt obliged to announce that they have something with the new chip inside to offer.

Unfortunately most of these new products are not ready just yet and you’ll have to wait a few weeks before they start shipping.

Gateway E-265M is one of the first Santa Rosa based notebooks you can actually buy.

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