“Between now and 2015, we expect to see a series of big changes that will redefine what a notebook is and what it looks like,” said Mike Trainor, Intel Corp.’s evangelist for mobile products.With crystal ball in hand, we talked to designers, engineers and marketers about how notebooks are likely to change over the next seven years.

Sony's new ultra-cool laptop

Said to be based on the slim R500 models, the new release is actually bigger and heavier (3.3 pounds / 1.49kg) than it and it is equipped with a 1.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 CPU, 3GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB SATA hard drive and GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics.

We've lined up 20 such models for our holiday retail laptop review roundup. We're working our way up from the bottom, starting at a bargain basement $500 model and passing through many mainstream models on our way to a fully loaded $1,849 Sony Vaio. We've completed the entry-level quartet and have a clear favorite: the Acer Aspire 5735-4624.

The Qosmio X305-Q708 comes equipped with a 2.53 GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9300 CPU, no less than 4GB of DDR3-1066 memory, a 320GB SATA hard drive plus a 128GB solid state drive and a DVD writer.

After Asus revealed the Eee PC back in 2007, there were bound to be some who would follow suit and release their own ultra portable notebooks. With hotspots appearing throughout cities all over the world the market is becoming ripe for cheap, ultraportable, easy to use computers to perform basic tasks.

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Readers responded to our original WorldBooks with their own inspired designs, pointing the way to a marvelously modular mobile PC

Spec wise, the laptop will come with a Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a Nvidia GeForce 9300M GS graphics card with 256MB of dedicated memory and a DVD writer. Also boasting Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi, the PX600 has Windows Vista Home Premium as a "default" OS.