Isaiah's Tech

Toshiba has just unveiled their two new Satellite laptops that will hit Europe next month. First up is the Satellite A500. The specs include: a 16-inch display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution, an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, ATI Mobility HD graphics, up to a 500GB HDD / 64GB SSD, a TV tuner, integrated Harman Kardon speakers, an HDMI port, and "REGZA LINK technology" (don't know what this is). The other Toshiba laptop is the Satellite U500. What you will get here is: a 13.3-inch display with a 1,280 x 800 resolution, an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, up to a 500GB HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics, a battery life enough to last over 3.5 hours, and will be available "in Brown Luxe, with either chrome or silver accents."

Both of these laptops have: a DVD Super Multi drive, a "wide format HD webcam", a multi-touch trackpad, WLAN, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 5-in-1 card slot. These laptops will be available for €699 ($975 USD) when they hit Europe in July.

[Engadget]

It's been a while since we heard about a PS3 price cut, and since Sony never announced anything at E3 we have to go by rumours. The latest one? Sony is looking to give the PlayStation 3 a $100 price cut in mid-August. This would be just in time to ruin your kids school year and is also perfect for Madden which hits the shelves on August 18. We'll see what happens come mid-August because I hope the PS3 Slim is brewing by then.

[Slash Gear]

HP just cut the prices of two of their laptops. First is the HP dv2z, which is the 12.1-inch AMD Neo laptop and it is now priced at $599 USD. The other laptop that got a price cut is the dv3t - which utilizes the Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 CPU - and it is now available for $649 USD.

Now lets talk about the laptop that you see above. HP's dv6 now has two new options, the dv6z Artist Edition 2 (above) is now available for $949 USD and the dv6t - priced at $649 USD - is the exact same thing, just without the artsy design. I'm not liking the design, but I'm sure there's someone out there that would love to dish out an extra $300 just to be unique.

[Engadget]

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 notebook is now available on Newegg. Like the Y550 that surfaced last month - I'm pretty sure - the IdeaPad Y650 also has the touch-sensitive Desktop Navigator. Other specs are as follows: a 16-inch LED-backlit WXGA display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution, an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz P8600 CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, an ExpressCard slot, 2 USB 2.0 slots, a VGA / HDMI port, a microphone / headphone jack, a 6-in-1 card reader, a 1.3MP webcam, and a 6-cell battery long enough to last 3.5-hours. Furthermore, this notebook will run on Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit), will weigh around 5.62 pounds, and is 1.03-inches at its thickest point.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 notebook is now available for $1,099 USD on Newegg, so go and check it out.

[Newegg]