It’ll also write DVDs (at 8x)—no BD writing though. Crunch says it requires an external power brick, which kind of nullifies the “portable” aspect. Still, can’t beat that price. No word on official availability, but we would imagine it’s on the way soon.

Update 7:46 PM EST: The drive has been spotted on Fastmac’s site (in white, natch) at the price of $130, marked down from the regular $150. So $99 might be a Macworld-only deal (companies sell stuff at Macworld? I’ve never been, news to me) but still a pretty good deal. [Thanks, something unique...]

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It’s hard to tell from this shot, but there does seem to be something present in the middle of the keyboard. If this is the VAIO P, that ’something’ is likely the mouse pointer. The VAIO P will buck the netbook trend and go with a nub pointing device rather than a trackpad, which is welcome news for those who find navigating the trackpad on a smaller netbook somewhat uncomfortable.

We’ll hopefully get a better look at the VAIO P later this week during CES. Until then, we hope this picture is enough to tide you over.

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As you can see, HP put some work in getting the internal layout of the Firebird to be as simple and clean as possible. A couple of interesting details not revealed in the leak are that the Firebird actually has 3 GPUs—two discrete Nvidia cards in SLI configuration for performance needs only, and one integrated GPU for Windows to run on. The external power supply is a big reason why the machine is 80% less power hungry than most gaming PCs, while the hot-swappable drive bays and sub-30db noise level are also nice touches.

But even more impressive is the price. Considering you’re getting a 2.83 GHz Core 2 Quad, 640 GB of storage, Blu-ray, 4 GB RAM dual SLI graphics cards and liquid cooling, it’s not bad that the Firebird 803 will only run around $2100 when it becomes available. There will also be a Firebird 802 available which will lack the Blu-ray and only have 500 GB of storage for $1800.

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CES 2009 So we , and here is a long awaited image of the said player. This slim wonder is no MacBook Air, but it will definitely look good in your living room (so does the model, much to the chagrin of your other half, of course). Good luck negotiating bringing either one home in these economically challenging times.

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: 3DTV.  And now at CES 2009, Panasonic is going to be showing off just that.

Matsushita Electric Co, Ltd. is using their Panasonic brand to demonstrate a 103-inch plasma 3DTV and Blu-ray disc player that delivers high def images (1920 x 1080 pixels for both eyes).  Users are still required to wear special glasses.  These glasses are synchronized shutter glasses and not quite the same as the funky plastic orange ones you may be imagining.

Their system works in a way that it incorporates two complete HD images at the recording, playback, and display stages.  Matsushita says that they have found a way to place both sets of HD images for a full movie onto one Blu-Ray Disc, as well as defined a way to decode and perform real-time play back the two HD images from the drive.

Chris Chinnock, president of market watcher Insight Media whose May report noted Mitsubishi and Samsung have released early 3DTV sets working with technology providers such as DDD Group plc (Santa Monica, Calif.). said “I am not surprised to see more 3-D plasma displays come to market.  We forecast plasma displays will see wide adoption of 3-D.  What is new is Panasonic’s codec to fit two 1920 x 1080 images into a single Blu-Ray stream,“ he added. “They don’t state the frame rate per eye, but it needs to be 60 Hz per eye to be acceptable.“

Ok, so obviously majorly cool if this actually comes to market.  You know, for real people, not just to showcase for us to look at and drool over.  Then again, can you just imagine the pricetag on this puppy?!

I’m also curious to see if the touted 3DTV is going to be on a Viera since that is the one Panasonic is showing off at CES.  Keep it right here for more info as Gadgetell brings you all the latest from CES, including updates on Panasonic’s 3DTV.

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