IBM is billing its new ThinkPad 570 as the first of a new breed of "transformer" systems that instantly converts from a desktop-replacement notebook PC into a thin and light ultraportable. IBM is billing its new ThinkPad 570 as the first of a new breed of "transformer" systems that instantly converts from a desktop-replacement notebook PC into a thin and light ultraportable....

Asustek Computer will launch its first "mobile PC" in the fourth quarter, in its hope to leverage experience in notebook and motherboard manufacturing to enter the desktop-replacement notebook category.More here at DigiTimes. Asustek Computer will launch its first "mobile PC" in the fourth quarter, in its hope to leverage experience in notebook and motherboard manufacturing to enter the desktop-replacement notebook category....

Toshiba announces new line of desktop replacement laptops. toshiba desktopreplacement laptops....

There’s still magnesium alloy casing, flexible internal connectors, shock-mounted hard drives and LCDs, a spill-proof keyboard, but the new generation of the 7.3-pound desktop-replacement system gets more mobile by incorporating Intel’s latest mobile platform, previously code-named Santa Rosa....