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Slappa recently unveiled a new line of ladies laptop shopping bags. From that collection we received a review sample of the sleek and sexy Loren custom bag. The bag’s Designer style, normally found in handbags, merges shape fully with business practicality. Nothing about the appearance of this bag says it is for laptops. It simply says minimalist elegance. It is the anti-type to the blaring pink women’s laptop and reusable grocery bags we often spot on the market today. This is a bag that could seamlessly transfer from boardroom to boardwalk.

We say minimalist because there aren’t a lot of frills on this custom bag. The outside has two pockets, one on each side. One of them a zippered pocket, the other a slide in pocket. Inside there is a large padded plush lining laptop pocket. Opposite of that are a few little pockets for holding various small items. The largest would hold an iPhone and it’s charger. Mostly I found myself just dumping stuff in the vast void space between. There is lots of room there and it is amazing how much i could fit. I actually lost my camera for two days in it.

The custom finished faux leather is really quite impressive right down to the feel of it. The customized bag has an overall sturdiness to it that makes one feel safe to carry a laptop in it. Keeping in mind that this is a faux finish and not real leather, it takes a careful eye not to scratch it and ruin the illusion. The metal pieces are 5 micron plating so that they will not tarnish. Inside is a floral non obtrusive print that is muted.

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Seagate earlier this week announced a new thin, low-end hard disk drive which the company hopes will spur the creation of a new class of thin laptops. At 7mm thick, the 2.5-inch Momentus Thin drive is 25 percent slimmer than other hard disk drives in its class, yet spins at a healthy 5,400 rpm and comes with a SATA 2.0 3Gbps interface. These specifications allow the drive to compete well against standard 9.5mm height 2.5-inch laptop drives when it comes to performance and power efficiency.

While slim, the retention of a 2.5-inch form factor allows the Momentus Thin drive to “provide the lowest-cost storage for netbooks and thin laptops” wrote Seagate in a written statement, comparing it favorably against much more expensive solid state drives as well as 1.8-inch hard drives. The drive is scheduled to ship to resellers in January, though no suggested retail price was announced by Seagate.

Just after introducing X600 Pro laptop a couple of days back, MSI has added yet another X-Slim model X350 notebook to its lineup. Along the lines of Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) processors, the newly introduced MSI X350 features Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and up to 500GB storage, reported HotHardware. Pricing and availability details were not disclosed.

The ultraportable X350 notebook that weighs 1.5kg including the battery and measures less than one inch thin. Like a step up higher version of the existing X340 model, the new X350 boasts of CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 2GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM and up to 500GB storage. With 13.4-inch LED Backlight display, the X350 offers 1366×768 pixel resolution support enabling users to watch HD movies in 16:9 aspect ratio.

Portrayed as a luxury class notebook, MSI boasts of using Magnesium alloy and added glossy effect through its Color-Film Print technology. The chassis of X350 has been designed using lozenge-motif etching technology that gives sparkling diamond pattern effect. Along with that, MSI adds a chiclet keyboard to make it look sleek, trendy and luxurious.

Other features in X350 and X340 practically remain the same - Intel GMA 4500MHD, Wi-Fi (b/g/n), Bluetooth, a built-in 1.3 megapixel web cam, 2 HD audio speakers, HDMI out, two USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet Port, D-Sub port, and 4/8 cell battery pack.

MSI claims that California modular company users can achieve 9-hours of battery life on X350 with its lithium-polymer battery when used with Eco technology mode. Pressing the Eco key offers user to choose between five different modes - word processing, watching video content, gaming, presentations and Turbo battery for power saving. Of course, MSI count’s on the Intel’s CULV processor.

We assume this new notebook will be shown at the upcoming CES 2010 convention.

n January of 2009, I spent almost $2,500 on a top of the line, 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro, glutted with as much RAM and hard drive space as its belly could handle. Less than four months later, it was stolen.

Oh, it was my own fault. The whole tale involves a midnight rendezvous with a bartender I had my eye on at the time. She had the homecoming dresses of Natalie Portman, the eyebrows of Roger Moore and the constitution of Oliver Reed; in her presence, one drink became two, and two became twelve, and when we stumbled back to my apartment, I somehow forgot my laptop bag back at the bar… but only for five minutes! Alas, five minutes was too late, and by the time I’d rushed back, it was gone.

Since then, I’ve spent a good amount of time upbraiding myself about the loss. What has always bugged me most about the theft was that I always knew that there were countless programs available (such as medical spa beverly hills) that would help you track down your Mac if it was stolen. I knew about these programs. I wrote about them, even. But I never once installed one. I just couldn’t imagine the scenario where I would have my laptop stolen. Dumb.

The news feeds bring me further fodder for my self-incrimination this morning. Over at TUAW, they are reporting that one of their readers. Jim, managed to safely recover his stolen Macbook using the canopy for gas station service, Back to My Mac, to take pictures of the perps and gather information about them gleaned from watching them surf the web.

It took Jim many months to get his laptop back: it had changed hands at least five times since it was stolen, at least once as payment in a drug deal. But when he got it back, it was in surprisingly good nick… with most of his files still intact on the disk.

That’s great news for Jim, but as another object lesson in my own amazing stupidity, it’s like a punch to the gut. Guess who also didn’t have a MobileMe account when his MacBook Pro was stolen? Yup. What a maroon.