Australian air safety officials believe laptops could have caused a passenger jet to suddenly gain and lose altitude.  Earlier this week, Qantas flight QF72 was flying from Singapore to Perth when it quickly climbed 300 feet and then plunged back down.  Dozens of passengers were injured as they slammed their heads into the ceiling and the pilot had to divert to a nearby air force base for an emergency landing.  Now, Qantas and the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau think laptops could have interfered with the auto pilot system.

Gamers and video editing gurus rejoice because the age of the quad-core laptop will soon be upon us.  I’m not talking about laptops with a jury-rigged desktop processor, but an honest to God mobile quad core CPU.  ASUS has announced their upcoming G71 gaming notebook that uses the Intel QX9300.  The monstrous notebook sports a 17-inch screen that can display 1920 by 1200 pixes and an Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT card with 512 MB of GDDR3 video RAM.