Laptops go on a Fashion Quest

Sometimes owning a notebook has nothing to do with specifications and performance but simple, old fashioned vanity. Here's my list of eye-candy notebooks!

Samsung X30
Stunning! And Sizzling in Red! Thats Samsung X30 for you. Sporting a sleek and sexy red profile, this stylish notebook has plenty of substance! Q30 features a 12.1-inch wide-screen display, integrated Wi-Fi, Ethernet, FireWire, a CD-RW/DVD combo drive, and a memory-card reader. The 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive does not make me too happy, but you can't get everything! Can you?

Sony X505
If you are looking for a laptop that will get you the looks, your search stops here! Oozing with charm, the Sony VAIO X505 is just about the slimmest, lightest notebook on the planet. The nickel-reinforced carbon fiber shell (the most advanced material ever used in a notebook) on the X505/P protects a specially condensed 1-GHz Pentium M processor, 20-gig hard drive, and 10.4-inch screen. Such advanced casing helps keep the machine's total weight under 2 pounds and its profile as thin as a finger. In order get the X505 down to six-tenths of an inch in thickness, Sony had to forego some features. Nevertheless, the VAIO X505 is about the sexiest laptop on the market.


Voodoo Envy n:532
Eye-catching radical looks. Voodoo's hip Envy n:532 combines decent portability with enough power to run today's hottest games and plow through any other application. The notebook is available in ten different colors, and with 13 different tribal "tattoos," patterns placed on the exterior that range from "Hex" to "Wheel of Time" or "Phoenix." The Envy also boasts several top-notch components, such as Pentium M processor, a full gigabyte of high-speed RAM, a peppy 5,400-rpm 120GB hard drive and NVIDIA's GeForce Go 6600 GPU.

X2 Stylebook 4000
X2 has launched the StyleBook 4000, a new laptop series specifically marketed for women. The Stylebook 4000 comes in Piano White and Duotone Pink/White finishes and includes a faux-croc colour-coordinated portfolio bag - how lovely. Despite its girly looks, the StyleBook 4000 can be configured with top of the range specs including Intel's latest Pentium M processor, up to 1GB of DDR RAM, up to a 100GB HDD, 802.11b+g Wi-Fi, USB/ Firewire support and a DVD/CD-RW Dual-Layer optical drive. X2 takes hi-tech fashion one step further by launching an interactive Stylebook Visual Configurator. The Visual Configurator, featured at http://www.stylebook.com/, allows users to go online to personalize their notebooks by choosing colors and coordinating laptop bags offered in Microfiber, Faux Croc, Leather and Suede materials. Not only are the bags fashionable and stylish, they are also extremely functional with several pockets for storage such as separate makeup and mobile phone compartments, eliminating the hassle of the constant two bag shuffle. I'm not sure if women in general will patronise these chic(k) notebooks or find them barbie-ish, but atleast X2 is trying something different.

Acer Ferrari 3400
With this series, Acer has proved that great looking notebooks aren't the sole province of Sony. Besides sporting the Ferrari red colour and the Prancing Horse logo, Acer's Ferrari 3400 notebook has 64-bit 3000+ processor, a 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card, built-in 802.11g WiFi, Bluetooth, 512MB of RAM, a DVD+-RW drive, and a 15-inch display. Very Sexy. Very Ferrari!