Gamers with top-range laptops, this news is for you. NVIDIA spread the word that the GeForce 9M line for mobile computing platforms has been finalized and put to market, prompting the consumer electronics division of every laptop brand known to mankind to update their product portfolios. But are they worth the jump to the latest, greatest, and most undoubtedly, priciest? Find out at the full story.

In life, it helps to have someone who can hold you accountable for your actions. In the case of electronics companies, it seems that Greenpeace is their accountability partner. The organization has recently released the current company rankings in its Greener Electronics Scale. To find out how certain companies fared, get "green-minded" and turn to the full article after the jump.

You want high resolution? Toshiba's got a new monitor that can pump out four times as many pixels as any other monitor in its class. The new monitor is a 22-inch WQUXGA display that boasts a whopping 3,840 x 2,400 pixels.

Apart from the insanely high resolution, Toshiba's new 22-inch LCD has some pretty standard features. It features 1677 million colors, 235cd/m2 brightness, 300:1 contrast and 120-degree top/bottom and 100-degree left/right viewing angles. Please note that Toshiba hasn't released any images of it yet, so the one on the right is just a generic Toshiba monitor.

The new monitor will ship in Japan before summer next year for 2,079,000 yen (US$ 18,120). To take advantage of the high resolution, you'll also need a dedicated PCI graphics card, which, incidentally, Toshiba also sells. The graphics card goes for 312,900 yen (US$ 2,727) a pop.

 

Here's a nice little idea which demonstrated how XNA development tools can work in conjunction with a Wiimote to create cute results in a PC. The Wiimote is able to control a flock of graphical butterflies by getting Windows Vista to talk with the controller.

M.B. Burke of MSDN says it's fairly simple on the programming part. What held him up for a while was the fact that the Windows Vista stack doesn't recognize the Wiimote signal. He had to look for four days for one that has a stack that's compatible and he found that in Toshiba. With a EPoX BT-DG05A Bluetooth USB Dongle, all was set.

Sadly, though, the Wiimote-controlled butterfly application doesn't work if you try to run it on the Xbox 360. Still, the idea is a nice demonstration of possibilities. And if we know tech-heads like we do, it's a given that they'll come up with a really crazy brew one of these days. To know how exactly everything was done, follow the read URL.

  Toshiba might not be the first name that pops into your head when you think about high end PC gaming (much less high end laptop PC gaming) but having recently given its latest Satellite gaming laptop a drive around the block, I think it's safe to say that's about to change.

The Design and Chassis: It's pretty darn classy, if you're a little bit more mature about your gaming and would rather not be seen walking around with a laptop that looks like it's a leftover prop from some bad 90's B-movie, you'll appreciate the P105's simple sleek curves and distinct lack of gaming bling. If it needs to it can actually look surprisingly normal, you can whip it out at the local Starbucks and manage not to look like the ultimate geek. There's no ugly chrome, no weird and extraneous cheap plastic attachments, just an understated sense of verve in the form of a soft blue glow from the systems front mounted speakers. Keys and shortcuts are conveniently and intelligently laid out with ample space so things rarely feel cramped. I say rarely because the touchpad is perhaps just a little small to be completely comfortable, and because it's offset to the left which kind of gets a little inconvenient during a heated gaming session. That said, the special tap activated backlight is quite useful, as well as the quick access provided to a number of software driven shortcuts, with options to quick-launch the web browser, volume control as well as activate various applications and multimedia functionality.

Read the rest of the review, after the jump!

Toshiba's P100 line of Satellite gaming notebooks will now be shipped with Windows Vista Ultimate on the Satellite P100-ST9752, Satellite P100-ST9762 and Satellite P100-ST9772. This is in line with the launch of Microsoft's flagship OS, Windows Vista, and the launching of Games for Windows initiative.

The P100 line features a 17-inch widescreen Onyx Blue Metallic LCD display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX graphics all conveniently placed inside a 7.1-pound, 1.41-inch slim profile case. The hardware combination should provide the best mobile gaming performance in PC while keeping temperatures and noise down to a minimum.

Other features include:

• a DVD-SuperMulti Double Layer drive that reads and writes all 11 formats
• 5-in-1 bridge media adapter for easy file sharing and downloads
• built-in harman/kardon(R) stereo speakers for a rich audio experience
• 17-inch diagonal display featuring TruBrite(TM) technology for a crisp, clear display
• Dual Mode touch pad that can provide one-tap short cuts to launch email, an Internet browser and other selected programs
• Bluetooth(R) v.2.0+EDR technology to connect with Bluetooth(R) devices such as wireless gaming controls and other accessories

With a starting price tag of US$ 1,999, you can also avail of a one-year limited warranty or upgrade it up to four years of service warranty.

Because gaming should not be tethered to a heavy PC casing and a power cord. Toshiba announces the latest in their Satellite P100 family of notebooks optimized for teh pwnage games - the P100-ST9742 (bless its Intel Core 2 Duo heart).

Its significant upgrade from the last batch of P100s we featured is its 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. It's still the same 17-inch display, 7.1-pound package as the P100-ST9012, -ST9412 and ST9612, packing a 512MB GDDR3 GeForce Go 7900GTX, 2GB DDR SDRAM memory, and a 100GB HDD to power your mobile gaming (no, not the one on your mobile phone).

You will be glad to know that this latest Toshiba gaming notebook also packs Bluetooth v2.0 to communicate with Bluetooth-enabled gaming accessories (like a PS3 SIXAXIS perhaps? :P), and 802.11a/b/g-compliant Wireless LAN so you can really reach out and pwn someone. Its other features include:

• DVD R/W drive
• 5-in-1 bridge media adapter for easy file sharing and downloads;
• built-in harman/kardon stereo speakers for a rich audio experience;
• Toshiba's in-house TruBrite technology from for a crisp, clear display;
• Finger Print Reader, Password Security, Security Cable Lock Slot, Hot Key Security, because it's your preciiioussss...
• Windows XP Pro, and it's also Vista-ready.

Its 2.6-hour battery life could be a bit worrisome if you're the type who plays extended, mind-numbing gut-killing marathon gaming sessions (anything longer than 2.6 hours), so you might still need that power cord. The price of power-packed packable gaming? US$ 2,899. Perhaps some writer here at QJ has a spare kidney to sell...