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It appears that Lenovo has made the W series available for sale. The W700 starts at $2,978, and adding the Intel QX9300 costs an additional $1,275. The 15.4″ W500 starts at $1,629.

While the W700 base model cost’s more than the 17″ Macbook Pro, it does pack quite a punch spec wise in comparison to the Macbook Pro.

To view the new Laptops, go here to Lenovo’s site

Our ThinkPad W Series includes the new ThinkPad W500 as well as the new ThinkPad W700. Both offer lightning-fast Intel® Core™2 Duo technology, advanced NVIDIA® Quadro® FX MXM based graphics, cutting-edge technology features and the durability and rock-solid reliability you expect from Lenovo — making the W Series the ultimate mobile workstation.

Ultimate performance

Powerful Intel® Core™2 processors with Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) offer superior performance along with enhanced management and security. Built for Windows Vista® to enable a premium user experience. Hard drives up to 320GB 5400rpm and up to 200GB 7200rpm with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) offer maximum security and storage. Solid State Drives (SSD) offer improved performance, reliability and battery life. High-performing DDR3 memory lowers power consumption. Intel® Turbo Memory helps speed boot time, loads applications faster and saves power.

Ultimate graphics experience ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations feature the NVIDIA® Quadro FX® MXM based graphics solution for unsurpassed mobile graphics processing and performance. OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) with up to 1GB of dedicated video memory enables graphic-intensive applications. High-resolution, premium WSXGA+ or WUXGA panels provide an improved viewing experience. The W500 features a 15.4″ display, and the W700 features a 17″ display. Next-generation DisplayPort technology provides clearer, crisper images and a larger viewing area. ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations offer X-Rite® PANTONE® color calibration for greater image accuracy, more precise color matching, and a consistently true display.

Palm-rest digitizer and pen ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations offer a 120cm x 80cm Wacom® palm-rest digitizer and pen, ideal for digital content creation and CAD/CAM applications. The digitizer can be configured to map to the entire screen or a user-defined area, and is compatible with a wide range of applications, from Windows® Paint to Adobe® Photoshop®.

While I was reading the MSDN Blogs feed, I found this screenshot.

That is 2.046965 Terabytes of RAM and 64 CPU Cores. It’s only using 4% of the total amount of ram at the time of the screenshot, which is 92GB.

Seeing this made me wonder when is this going to be the norm? When will our laptops have 2 Terabytes of RAM? What could we possibly be using that would ever need 2TB of RAM? Will we actually ever need that much amount of RAM?

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Nowadays, most households have multiple computers and media devices, and sharing files and media between them all can be extremely messy. The best solution would be a home server of course!

I’ll be separating the whole guide into multiple parts. By the end, we will have accomplished:

* Installing OpenSUSE onto your Home Server
* DHCP
* DNS
* SMB/NFS File Sharing
* Media Sharing
* VPN

More after the Jump!

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I’ve been following Leo on twitlive.tv and there have been reports of people not able to get their iPhones due to the Telecom providers activation systems going down.

No one knows what the cause is, I’d assume that it’s because of high demand in countries that are getting the iPhone for the first time. 3 callers have reported the outages in Austria, Australia, and the Netherlands. Due to the systems being down, they had to send people home with “IOU’s” until the systems are back and functioning and they can unbrick them. Since there aren’t any stores open yet in North America, We don’t know if this will hit Canada and the US too.

Again, I have to thank Leo Laporte for doing this 24 hours of iPhone coverage. That takes alot to broadcast for 24 hours. Bravo!

Leo Laporte is doing 24 hours of iPhone 3G  Launch coverage. He is asking for people to call in via GrandCentral, Skype, or ooVoo, if they are waiting in line or even if they aren’t.

If you want to watch him, you can catch him live via Stickam on Twitlive.tv.

Recently I’ve been getting some very strange graphical glitches in Leopard 10.5.4 on my 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro (yeah, the “old” one). You can see the screenshot below.

It started around when I updated to 10.5.2, and quite rarely occurs, but nonetheless it is extremely annoying, even doing a full restore has not solved this glitch.

When it does happen, I’ve looked at the sensors via iStat Menu, and nothing is out of the

ordinary. All of the temperatures are within reason, the CPU and network load is low, and plenty of RAM remaining. The logic board has been replaced due to a sleep issue quite a few months ago, I don’t think it ever happened before that.

Most of the complaints that I have seen about such an issue have been on the Penryn Macbook Pro’s with NVIDIA 8600M GT graphics cards, while mine has the ATI X1600. I’m going to be giving Apple call soon. Very glad I decided to purchase AppleCare for it.