WE ARE QUITE titillated by the concept of Wi-Fi enabled multimedia players, oh yes. Laptop Magazine has rounded up a bunch of these thingies (PMPs) – although there is no direct comparison between them - and reviews the bunch, based essentially on what kind of edge wi-fi will bring to it (sharing, web browsing, online stores, online radio, video streaming etc...) You have here an Iplod Touch, an Archos 605 Wi-Fi, a Haier Ibiza Rhapsody, a Zune and a Slacker Portable.

The Danes at Tweak.dk are playing around with an MSI laptop, the EX600 model, targeted at the entertainment notebook segment. Violet might not be your colour of choice, but off-colours make for good looking “design”. Although testing doesn’t reveal great gaming performance – Henrik attributes this to the CPU – they EX600 does make for a decent all-round machine, violet as it may be. Read about it here.

Slim is neat. It looks cool, it feels cool, and it really drives a lot of product design and consumer demand. Techware Labs has a Logisys Ultra Slim Keyboard test online for you to purvey. The very slim gadgetry resembles laptop-stylee keyboards, but with a ton of hotkeys and media controls. It isn’t wireless, but it comes with an extra long 7-foot USB cable. Michael liked it well enough. Read on.

Soyo was known for its motherboards and small form factor systems. Later on they moved on to the consumer electronics/convergence market. Nowadays, they’re pretty much established and this 24-inch LCD is proof positive of their work. Think Computers got it from the source. Sure, Soyo doesn’t make its own panels, but it seems you can’t beat this offer on price. About 310 buckaroos for a 3ms 1920x1200 behemoth. No 90-degree rotation, no HDMI, just the basics... do you really need more, right now?

Techware Labs has a case on review, the Bgears b-Envi, a compact micro-ATX oriented system with big wide windows cut into the sides for showing off your modding. It also includes some features like a 58-in-1 (sheesh) card reader, touch-sensitive front panel buttons, a 2.5-inch HDD enclosure+adapter to plug in a smaller and hot-swappable drive. Dirt cheap for such a system, we think. $120 will get you a box for your soon-to-be-PC. Get smallish box here.

Tarinder at Hexus.net will save you an obscene amount of time if you’re looking to upgrade your RAM – or build a new system. He’s written up a RAM pricing guide for March 2008, which will let you know if you’re getting ripped off the next time you shop online or offline. It’s a pricing bonanza right now in the DDR2 camp, but DDR3 remains a deep pockets market. Hexus.net has cherry-picked what they think are the best deals for all mainstream DDR2 and DDR3 memories. Ripe for the picking.

Adrian, lord of TechARP, has updated the site’s mobile GPU listings. You might not think this is hot, but it becomes a wonderful aid when you’re shopping around for a laptop with decent gaming capabilities. Just find the chip, check out its specs and tell the salesbeing to stuff it. This includes everything from IGPs to discrete notebook graphics. We confess we were unaware that IGPs like Intel’s X3100 and Radeon Xpress are 64-bits wide per memory channel, meaning a single channel memory setup will grant you much lower graphics performance than a dual-channel laptop (2x64-bits). Live and learn. µ