Panasonic has released updated Thoughbooks CF-52 and CF-74 with Centrino 2 support. Now you will get same old lappies with larger hard drives, 802.11n WiFi, expanded graphics capabilities and Intel’s Centrino 2 platform. Rest is the same, shock-mounted HDD and spill-resistant keyboard, and prices are $1,949 and $3,199, respectively. Available from next month.

Sony has launched new Blu-ray player BDP-S350. This player is Profile 2.0 compliant with support for BonusView, picture in picture, and firmware that enables you BD-Live. Of course there is full 1080p output, 7.1-channel Dolby TrueHD / DTS-HD Master Audio support and a promise to suck down 21% less power in playback compared to the BDP-S300. Available right now in Sony Style stores for $400 dollars.

Vizio has released new 42 inch plasma VP422 with average performance as some tests reports. VP422 has a native resolution 1,024×768, not like most of plasmas the 1080p. On the rear side you get two HDMI inputs, one component video input, AV input with a choice of S-Video or composite video, RF input, and a 15-pin VGA input for PC. From the specs 30000:1 contrast ratio, 1500 cd/m2 brightness, 178 degrees viewing angle, 0.001 ms response and 60,000 hours backlight life. A digital optical audio output and a set of analog audio outputs round out the rear, while a third HDMI input is all alone on the side panel. There is no aspect ratio control for HD sources and VP422 gets highly inaccurate green primary color and poor grayscale tracking mar overall color accuracy. With this not so good facts you will consider buying one for $799.99.

In case you don’t mind the fact that this laptop weight 12 pounds, you will be very impressed with the Maingear eX-L performance. Designed for gamers, eX-L sport 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme X9100 CPU, Centrino 2 chipset, double ATI graphic or single NVIDIA, 17 inch display, built-in speakers with subwoofer and 802.11n WiFi. Unfortunately there are not much detailed specifications and pricing and availability is not known but surely you cannot expect this beast to be cheap.