LG Electronics, Korea, has announced two new desktop PC, the XPion R10MP and S10MP. One is a version with Regular box, and the other with Slim box. In terms of features, these are the same and are equipped with 1TB of HDD, 2GB of RAM (DDR3), an Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 CPU, an Intel P45 chipset, a Nvidia GeForce 8500G graphics card with HDMI, 512MB video memory (VRAM), a 14-in-1 card reader, a DVD burner DVD±R/RW/DL..

Art Lebedev Studio’s founder revealed an early 3D prototype of his Optimus Popularis keyboard that sheds new light on the device. Despite saying that the keyboard won’t use the OLED displays of the Maximus, Lebedev’s rendering confirms that the keyboard will still have at least some keys whose symbols will change based on the relevant app. The design is already known to be smaller than the Maximus and support both Mac OS X and Windows systems.

Launch information is still distant for the Popularis outside of its intended sub-$1,000 price tag, though the apparently more limited feature set could push the keyboard below the $462 price of the Russian company’s current keyboard.

HP today announced the world’s first two-in-one server blade, which offers customers with scale-out environments improved data center performance, reduced floor space and lower power usage. The HP ProLiant BL2×220c G5 combines two independent servers in a single blade, enabling customers to double compute power and significantly reduce data center space requirements. It delivers 60 percent better performance per watt than similar configurations on the market and minimizes cooling and power costs.

Onkyo today introduced a new wireless keyboard and mouse system, the KM-2W. These input devices feature 106 Japanese keys, while the mouse is equipped with a 800dpi sensor. Available in Black and Silver versions, Onkyo’s new aluminum wireless keyboard and mouse will be released in June 5th, 2008.

Epson USA has unveiled the Stylus Photo R2880, 13-inch carriage desktop inkjet printer that is the latest model from Epson to add Vivid Magenta to its set of Ultrachrome K3 ink colours. The R2880 features an Advanced MicroPiezo AMC print head fed by eight pigment ink colour lines (which means it’s necessary to swap Matte Black and Photo Black inks when switching between certain paper types) and a resolution of 5760 x 1440 dpi.

Direct CD/DVD printing is possible, and two computers can be connected via the printer’s twin USB 2.0 ports (it lacks an Ethernet port). The Stylus Photo R2880 is to ship in June 2008 for an estimated street price of US$799.99 in the U.S. It replaces the Stylus Photo R2400 in Epson’s lineup.

The drive offers twice the capacity of the Korean firm’s previous 128GB SSD but is also much faster. The 256GB edition reads sequential data at 200MB per second, twice the rate of the original model, while also seeing an even greater increase in write speeds: where the earlier drive writes at 70MB per second, the new SSD writes at 160MB per second. This comes in a chassis that is also described as one of Samsung’s thinnest at 9.5mm (0.37in), making it suitable for very thin and light notebooks.