Dell recently entered the tablet PC market with the introduction of their Latitude XT which is a convertible 12.1" system which claims to be one of the lightest on the market at under four pounds.

The American company will begin taking orders by the end of the year and the starting price is set at $2,499 USD. It packs either a Core 2 Solo or Duo ULV processor which enables the tablet PC to provide impressive battery life of up to 9.5 hours.

Albatron thinks it is time to get excited about the launch of their 88GTS-512X based on the new G92 core, which is finally being unveiled today by Nvidia.

Albatron are mostly focusing on the price surprise of the new part saying it is able to run with the big boys without costing a fortune. We tend to agree on that.

Fujitsu is one of the very first off the blocks with their AMILO Xi 2550 notebook which sports the latest mobile graphics chip from AMD; the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700 GPU, which made its rather quiet debut today.

The 2550 is a 17" notebook capable of 1920 x 1200 resolutions and if you have enough bucks, it will ship with a Blu-ray reader for a pretty kick ass entertainment experience since the LCD is capable of 1080p.

Based on an Intel 965PM chipset based motherboard, it comes with either the T7250 processor at 2GHz or T7700 processor which operates at 2.4GHz. Strangely enough, only 2GB of memory is supported but should be just enough for most usage.

Along with Service Pack 1 for Office 2007 being released recently, Microsoft also let Service Pack 3 for Windows XP out of the bag.

It is not the final release which is expected sometime next year but still manages to pack in a total of 1073 fixes. It also includes four new features including a new activation scheme, Network Access Protection Module, Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module and a Black Hole Router detection algorithm.

There was talk of Windows XP SP3 including DX10 support but that didn't end up being the case. If you are still using Windows XP and haven't made the move to Vista yet, BetaNews is hosting the beta service pack for download.

A new breed of HD 3850 has been spotted in the wild; Expreview has pictures of a "UNIKA" branded offering which uses a modified PCB with the reference GDDR3 memory replaced in favour of Hynix 16Mx32bit 0.8ns GDDR4 chips. With this significant change comes a non-standard cooler (which looks a little...odd) and superior clockspeeds of 700MHz core and 2200MHz memory; not that far behind the 3870.

Details and more images here.

They just keep flowing in!

Three more companies have announced their new 8800GTS 512MB cards. Without further ado:

Fudo from Fudzilla managed to make some time to visit Vadim Computers in the UK for a first look at a water-cooled 8800GTS 512MB based system. The results of the outing were impressive, to say the least.

During an overclocking session, they managed to overclock the water-cooled G912 512MB to 800MHz core clock (650MHz is standard), 2080MHz shader clock (1625MHz is standard) and 2300MHz DDR memory clock (1940MHz DDR is standard).

Naturally, the resulting 3DMark06 benchmark runs speak for themselves.

Walton Chaintech are first off the blocks with the announcement of their brand spanking new 8800GTS 512MB graphics card based on the new and improved G92 core. You have seen the benchmark results previously her at TweakTown and now they are up for grabs.

The GAE88GTS 512MB is equipped with the higher level G92-400 chip in comparison with GeForce 8800GT. The folks at Chaintech reckon what makes this card special is its heavy-duty dual slot cooler and extra shaders on tap for optimizing the cooling performance and for noise reduction.

Transcend sends word of their brand new Curvy Pure-White USB pen drive - yet another USB flash product from the Taiwanese company who seems to produce a new model each week.

The V33 is pure white which may make a good addition to your girl's Christmas stocking. Among the top features are its ultra-compact body measuring in at 60mm x 16.5mm x 8.1mm and it is a lightweight coming in at a mere 7 grams.

Vista's first service pack isn't all that far away from completion, and up until now there's been no definitive details of what exactly it will bring.

Today that changes though, as Microsoft has let fly some documents which share explicit details of the service pack in terms of every single update to be implemented. The mass of updates fall into the following sub-catagories :-