Dell’s Australian site reported Inspiron 1525 availability with January 9th shipping date. 15.4 inch Inspiron 1525 features 2GHz T7250 Core 2 Duo processor, X3100 integrated graphic card, 2GB of RAM, 160GB storage and WiFi. For that configuration price tag about $1228 is kinda cheap.

After so much buzz about OLPC and Eee PC finally we have some Classmate PC news. This time Hacao’s Classmate PC is available in Vietnam for students. Hacao ships it with own customizes Linux distro and features 900MHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, 1GB of Flash storage, a 7-inch WVGA display and WiFi. As some sources report this version will be available in Vietnamese computer stores for $340, while for schools Classmate PC costs $250.

Panasonic’s latest burner for laptops goes down with thickens to the amazing 9.5 mm. The drive can read and write Blu-ray discs at 2x, and supports DVD and CD read/write functions of course. Toshiba developing team claims that HD DVD burners can be slimmed down to 7 mm which will make them the best Blu-ray drives in this category, but so far only DVD has gone that slim. Expect official debut of this Panasonic new drive next month at CES.

Cowon continues to release interesting devices lately. This time new N3 portable media player comes with DMB TV tuner. As you can see player is followup to the N2 with 7 inch touchscreen and 800 x 480 resolution. Inside is stored 600MHz Alchemy AU processor, dual SDHC slots because N3 ships with but no built-in memory, and GPS. All software runs on Windows CE 5.0 and we don’t have info about price, at least until CES 2008. next month.

South Korean TG launched new laptop line, TG LLUON Crystal with such a elegant design. This laptop model features Core 2 Duo T7200 2GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 500GB HDD, DVD burner, GeForce 8400 GS graphics and 802.11g WiFi. Dimensions are 45.2 x 277 x 244.1 mm and weights 3 kg. All that is yours for $1,490 US.