Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 - There is something about it...

There is something about the Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 that makes me want one.

It touts great features such as it's slim size, carbon fibre materials and it's light weight. All goodness, but none of which peaks my interest. After all, I don't want to lug around a 16 incher when a cheap but stylish netbook can get the job done.

When closed, it looks incredibly boring and makes me sleepy. But open it up and POW! The retro colored styling has got me hot and bothered.

LG Phones - They're not Goggles!

Always liked slide phones. Not because it's better than flip phones, it's not, but I like them because they're different.

Take LG-GD900 from Korea. Their concept phone has transparent keypads. I just can't be bothered to fathom how and what they are good for.

But I still like them.

720p Dell Mini 10 - HD?

You just cannot complain when you can upgrade a little Dell Mini 10 to a 1,366 x 768 resolution. Netbooks already suffer from a lack of pixels already. Except the gorgeous but slow as fornication, Sony Vaio P.

But HD? Unless you can custom build the Dell Mini 10 to include a cpu that is better than the standard Atom 1.33ghz, you might as well be watching a slideshows with an original special collage style.

Unless the Intel GMA500 on board video has something special up it's sleeves.

Asus Eee PC 1004DN - Now you can watch DVDs

I like the fact that the Eee PC 1004DN is a netbook that comes with a DVD drive. Sometimes when I get sensitive data or holiday videos from someone, they usually burn it onto a DVD.

The only problem with the Asus range is that although models such as the 101's and 1008HA are slim and sexy, open it up and it looks pretty uninspiring. It's good to see the gorgeous Sony Vaio P(but slow as a scooter) and HP Mini 1000 liven up the netbook market.

Touchscreen Desktop Galore! MSI Wind Top

Desktops used to be big and noisy. But now with the new slim line desktops that take little space and look darn sexy, it's a good time to ditch the notebook and get a nice big desktop. Especially the ones that come with touch screen capability.

The Wind Top AE1900 looks deceptively like the Eee Top 1602. Great, but don't care features include the ultra low power 45W operation. Great fun, but non-essential feature include the touch screen.

Runs on the Atom processor so you can do just about everything except games and your photoshop fantasies.

ASUS Eee PC 1008HA - Thin is boring?

The Macbook Air was just absolutely stunning when closed and looked from the side. But when you open it up, it looks bland and uninspiring. Apple fanatics or tech users who just about managed to afford it, would probably have kept looking at the side just to feel good about the purchase. People with money would just be content that it's expensive and leave it at that.

The same goes with the netbooks. With so many netbooks crowding the ever growing selection, most will probably choose the one that is the most stylish.

If you are serious user who does actual work on the go then style is absolutely unimportant, you'll go for the one with the longest battery.

But what if you could combine both?

Like the Eee PC 1008HA. Looks good from the side, but open it up and your probably going groan and look away when it boots into the green and blue windows XP.

In fact, does anybody care about netbook specs anymore? It'll have the same Atom chip and the same 1Gb ram and the same windows XP. It'll probably have the same battery life.

Privacy Hood for BlackBerry- Who Needs This?

There could be countless reasons why foreign phones are not doing well in Japan. Maybe it's because they prefer their privacy features to be a little discrete.

With their cell phones packed with so many features, one feature that stands out is their privacy screen. With a flip of switch, the screen becomes unreadable unless looking directly in front of the screen. No snooping from the side.

Where as the Blackberry.....

iPhone Japan - Just Games?

So the iPhone is not selling as well as expected. In fact, they are apparently limiting the stocks of the iPod Touch so people are encouraged to buy an iPhone.

With recent price cuts from iPhone's main carrier, ad campaigns that the Japanese public just don't seem to get and the current recession, they probably won't know about the iPhone 3.0 update, or even that cut and paste had been missing from the start.

New 17 inch iMac - Still Available?

After the recent price and spec revision of the 20inch and 24 inch iMacs, there is said to a 17 inch model.

Apparently it's only available to educational institutions. This would be so cool if they released that to the general public,  at a lower price so that everyone could afford to buy a mac.

But since it's for educational institutions only, it's probably going to be the old white version rather than the aluminum version.

Much like the budget entry macbooks which is white and not aluminum.

It makes sense really. Though, I wouldn't mind buying the original cheaper white iMac. It still looks really nice.

Dell Adamo - 'Thinnest Notebook Available' in case no one is convinced.

I was pretty underwhelmed by the Dell Adamo.

The Adamo is actually a really good name and it does have that special foreign meaning. But the Macbook Air makes the Dell Adamo look ordinary.

The Dell Adamo could be thinner than the Air, but does it look it? Not at all. What a shame. It's good to know it is the thinnest, otherwise I would never have known.

Anything Core 2 Duo bores the knickers off me, but when it starts with 1.2 Ghz, it just begs the questions why? Maybe they know Windows 7 will run just fine, but until then it's a Vista machine.

The weight is something I'm not happy with at all. 4 pounds is really quite heavy. A few years ago I would probably never have known, but having been used to travel light netbooks, this is heavy.

It's rated for over 5 hours, but frustrating, you'll never get that. Unless you want to go blind by dimming the LCD to h*ll.

I'm not bothered about the price tag. The price is not an issue. If you are looking for a luxury item, price is not something that you give a hoot about. In fact, secretly the more expensive it is, the better, less middle class students or dads are able to buy it.