Ultra light laptops to soon get kick in the pants, 32nm Core i5/i7 power.

Tired of desperately searching for a powerful yet svelte laptop to carry with you on life’s journeys while still getting 5+ hours of battery life? Currently the two words “powerful” and “runtime” don’t go together. To have one you must sacrifice the other. But Intel has something up their sleeve…

Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive gets flogged.

Last week we touched on some new and interesting news possibly coming from Seagate. And wouldn’t you know it, our guestimate was spot on (as was many other peoples’).

The new Seagate Momentus XT was put through it’s paces by Hothardware and found to be “in between a WD Scorpio Blue and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11″ in terms of overall speed. So no, this hybrid tech won’t be a worth contender to SSD”s and users looking for the ultimate in speed. For that, a blazing fast, wallet slaying SSD is still your best bet.

If it’s actual benchies you’re looking for, the average times for the Momentus XT Hyrbird are as follows: ~110MBps/~100MBps read/write. Not out of this world, but something to consider I guess when deciding between HDD or SSD, no?

For the rest, you’ll have to give Hothardware your eyes and attention a bit longer.

Dupont breakthrough promises 50″ OLED for the price of 52″ LCD!

Any type of HD guru will tell you that OLED is the promising future. Granted, OLED still has some issues with direct light. But in a nice dark theater room, an OLED truly sings. The only limiting factor so far has been a sort of “chicken or the egg” conundrum.

For example, Sony’s 11″ OLED TV costs consumers $3,499. Who’s going to spend that much on such a small TV? And Sony likewise can’t lower the price simple because of the lack of mass production. So what do you do?

A recent breakthrough at Dupont appears to have paved the way for much cheaper and large OLED production…

HTC Evo 4G unreleased. Already rooted.

Score one for rooters everywhere. Android by itself in stock flavor is already pretty robust and customizable (unless you’re rockin’ an AT&T Android device). But rooting brings in a few extra goodies, namely tethering/wifi hotspot ability without being milked by carriers.

With the impending release of the “Jesus Phone” of Android phones — the HTC Evo 4G of course — many users are looking at moving from their currently rooted and tweaked devices to a new awesome, yet locked down device.

Fret not folks, because the HTC Evo 4G is already rooted!

Review: AT&T Palm Pre

The old saying goes: Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. But does it apply to something more digital, say a phone? If it does, Palm would be in trouble. If you take the last couple years of Palm’s portfolio and performance and made that “the cover”, this is one book that would be well worth passing up. And yet Palm’s latest attempt proves intriguing.

The Pre is by no means new, now going on one year old come early June. But one could argue that the Pre Plus which just debuted on AT&T is a sort of a Pre 1.5. The hardware and software between the Pre and Pre Plus may be nearly identical, but that doesn’t mean AT&T’s flavor of the Pre doesn’t deserve a welcoming party of it’s own.

Now that all the preliminary nonsense is out of the way, let’s get to it…

ASUS releasing ROG Xpander. Brings 4-way SLI to ASUS Rampage Xtreme III

ASUS’s Rampage Extreme III motherboard is the motherboard for high end gamers. With deadly black on red styling and a feature list that would make practically any gamer drool, price takes a backseat to pure lust. But there’s one nagging little problem — the RE3 doesn’t support quad-SLI.

You may be asking exactly who has the cash to drop on say, 4x GTX 480′s. That’s a considerable chunk of change for sure, ringing up to a cool $2k in GPU’s alone. But some people have more money than they know what to do with. Oh how I envy them.

With endless amounts of cash and a need for quad GPU’s, ASUS has a solution — their ASUS ROG Xpander…

LAN in your pocket Alienware M11X getting new i3, i5, and i7 procs “next month” says Dell employee

For gamers on the go, nothing is perhaps more exciting and useful as the Alienware M11X — an 11″ mini gaming rig of surprising power. The current proc beating at the heart of Dell’s mini-LAN decimating beast is homely Core 2 Duo. Even with that, it’s still the fastest 11″ laptop on the market.

But a new video floating around YouTube has Dell’s head of consumer operations (Pearce Clune) for the Middle East and Africa letting slip a juicy tidbit concerning a processor upgrade for Alienware’s baby.

Core i3, i5, and i7′s all around! Yeah! An already fast laptop is getting a swift kick in drive bay. Now all that needs to happen is that mobile GPU getting some more attention.

I for one can’t wait to get my hands on an M11X with a quad-core i7. That would be the be all end all of mobile computing. IPad what…

Video of the slip after the jump…