HDX 18

Bottom Line: As a desktop replacement, it not only performs well, it makes your actual desktop look snazzier.
PC World Rating: 84.7 (Very Good)
Price When Reviewed: $1890
CPU: 2.8-GHz Core 2 Duo T9600
Display Size (inches): 18.4" Display
Wide Screen: Yes
Total HD Size (GB): 640GB Hard Drive
Min. Weight (lbs.): 9.1Lbs.
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Pavilion DV7T

Bottom Line: This heavy duty desktop replacement's performance wows, but falls a little short where you'd expect it to sing: multimedia.
PC World Rating: 83.0 (Very Good)
Price When Reviewed: $1650
CPU: 2.53-GHz Core 2 Duo T9400
Display Size (inches): 17" Display
Wide Screen: Yes
Total HD Size (GB): 400GB Hard Drive
Min. Weight (lbs.): 5.48Lbs.
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D901C Phantom-x

Bottom Line: The Phantom-X packs plenty of power and versatility, but suffers from a lackluster layout and design.
PC World Rating: 78.5 (Very Good)
Price When Reviewed: $5950
CPU: 3-GHz Intel Xeon X3370
Display Size (inches): 17.1" Display
Wide Screen: Yes
Total HD Size (GB): 320GB Hard Drive
Min. Weight (lbs.): 12Lbs.
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P-7811FX

Bottom Line: Gateway's got a full-fledged gamer's bargain notebook packed with more ports and options than you'll know what to do with.
PC World Rating: 76.8 (Good)
Price When Reviewed: $1399.99
CPU: 2.26-GHz Core 2 Duo P8400
Display Size (inches): 17" Display
Wide Screen: Yes
Total HD Size (GB): 200GB Hard Drive
Min. Weight (lbs.): 8.9Lbs.
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Qosmio X305-Q708

Bottom Line: Toshiba's high-end Qosmio X305 has lots of style and even more power, but could use a more practical physical design.
PC World Rating: 72.5 (Good)
Price When Reviewed: $4099
CPU: 2.5-GHz Core 2 Extreme Q9300
Display Size (inches): 17" Display
Wide Screen: Yes
Total HD Size (GB): 320GB Hard Drive
Min. Weight (lbs.): 9.5Lbs.
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BenQ’s featherweight Joybook Lite U101 is Atom powered

BenQ has been off the hook for a while now, but they have finally collected themselves well in time for the CES, entering the laptop fray with their latest Joybook Lite U101. Weighing at about 1 kg, the U101 is aimed as a second notebook for the vivid user. It packs a 10.1” 16:9 WSVGA LED backlit screen supporting 1024 x 600 resolutions.
This not so big notebook is powered by a 1.6GHz Atom processor for higher energy efficiency and extended battery life which is made possible with SSD-driven, three-cell battery. Joybook Lite U101 is expected to be made available by the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2009, with either Linux® or Windows® OS, 1.3MP webcam, WiFi and optional 3.75G HSUPA and Bluetooth.

Joybook R56 notebook by BenQ

BenQ has just expanded its family by dropping the new Joybook R56, but how much juice this cool Joybook encompass in it, let’s check it out.
This 15.4 inch laptop features WXGA widescreen display with an eight-millisecond response time, HDMI output, NVIDIA’s GeForce 8400M G. In addition, the JoybookR56 runs on Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 processor with 512MB to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, up to 160GB of SATA hard drive space, an optional dual-layer DVD writer, six-cell Li-ion battery, 802.11a/g/n, built-in stereo speakers/subwoofer with noise and echo cancellation software and a slide of ports that comprises FireFire, Ethernet, VGA, audio in / out, eSATA, ExpressCard, and four USB 2.0 connectors.
Price and availability is not yet leaked.
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Via: Electronista

Toshiba's latest Dynabook Satellite WXW

Toshiba has just introduced its real time gaming laptop Dynabooks Satellite WXW that might fulfill your need if you are looking ahead to get one of its kind.
The latest WXW notebook is based on the Santa Rosa platform with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T7300, 1GB of RAM that you can upgrade to 4GB according to your desire and a GeForce 8700M GT GPU with 256MB of memory.
It comes with a nice 17.1-inch screen display that offers 1680 x 1050 resolution, graphic card (DX10), HDMI, with PM965 Express chipset, DVD DL burner and more then enough 120GB HDD. It measures 399×288x52mm and weighs only 3.9kg.
The notebook is currently available in Japan and to get it you might have to shell somewhere around $1800.
Via: Akihabaranews