Toshiba has plan to release its new Qosmio notebook in Japan next month. Known as the Qosmio G50W/95JW, the 18.4-inch notebook comes jam packed with a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 processor, a 4GB of RAM, an Intel PM45 Express Chipset, a 500GB of HDD, Full HD resolution display, and an nVidia GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB of VRAM. You should have at least 304,800 Yen ($3,145) to bring home the Toshiba G50W/95JW.

Transcend has released a new SSD25D Solid State Drive that provides up 64MB of integrated DRAM cache and comes in 60GB and 120GB storage space. The drive boasts transfer speeds of up to 230MB/s read and 180MB/s write and around 1ms latency. The SSD25D also features an industry-standard 3.0Gb/s SATA II interface and 2.5-inch form factor to allow easy and straightforward user installation in most notebooks and desktop computers, just like a conventional hard drive. The SSD’s low power consumption and silent operation will increase efficiency and longer battery runtime for laptops.