Toshiba’s Qosmio G40 now with world’s first HD DVD-RW drive

Notice anything special about that laptop up there? No besides it’s monstrous footprint. Right, a world’s first HD DVD-RW drive in a laptop.Otherwise, it’s the same 17-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Qosmio G40 we know and love now topping out with a 2.2GHz T7500 Core 2 Duo, up to 400GB of disk and 4GB of memory, and a pair of terrestrial HDTV tuners with HDMI-out in a 10.6-pound slab of media action. Priced at about ¥400,000 ($3,530) nicely equipp...

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Phantom Lapboard now on sale, suckers rejoice

At this point we’re pretty certain Phantom’s shady, vaporous history is warning enough to anyone thinking about giving cash to the company, but the risk-takers out there might want to take note: Phantom’s oft-delayed Lapboard is now available for purchase. Of course, there’s no ship date listed and — true to Phantom form — the site’s SSL certificate is a little shady, but come on, you know you want to pony up your credit card number and let us know what happe...

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