Today Archos has started shipping their larger capacity Archos 70 with a spinning 250GB hard drive. This new larger capacity Archos 70 250GB shares nearly all the same specifications of the SSD version, including 800 x 480 pixel (WVGA) multi-touch screen, 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor with 3D OpenGL ES 2.0 graphic accelerator and HDMI output.

The main differences would be the lack of a Micro SD card slot, along with the expected increase in size and weight to accommodate the large 250GB HDD. The Archos 70 250Gb version is available for $350 with the Archos 70 8GB SSD version costing $275.

Toshiba has a new netbook called the NB550D which will be powered by a dual core 1GHz AMD C50 (Ontario) processor, along with a 10-inch display with AMD’s very own Radeon HD 6250M graphics chipset, Harman Kardon speakers, a 6-cell battery good for up to 9.5 hours of run time, HDMI ouput, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0, 1GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive.

It will be powered by Windows 7 Home Premium and will come in the odd colors of green, orange, or brown. Aside from the colors it sounds decent.

Many set top boxes are boring, but that’s not the case here. Free, an ISP in France, has introduced the Freebox v6 Revolution, a set-top box designed by Philippe Starck. The device offers a 250GB hard drive and an internal 802.11n Wi-Fi module, Blu-ray drive, web browser, Intel’s Atom CE4100 media processor and also a motion-sensing remote.

So you will get live/streaming TV options, Internet, gaming and even at-home calling. What can’t it do? They also throw in a joystick and a pair of powerline adapters. The device is already available for pre-order and will cost you between EUR59.99 ($80) to EUR119.99 ($161). Not bad considering all it does.

Seagate has introduced their new Server-specific enterprise hard drive. The 2.5-inch hard drive will have a total capacity of 1TB. It’s dubbed the Constellation.2 and it can be used by small to medium businesses as well as large enterprises. It can be used in directed attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) environments.

It should give IT managers more options to meet capacity requirements. The Constellation.2 is available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities and promises 6-GB/s SATA or 6GB/s serial-attached SCSI interface options.

Toshiba is packing stereo Harman Kardon speakers with two watts each in their latest laptop, along with an Atom N550 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 250GB HDD, 10 hours of battery life, and a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LED-backlit display. Finally a laptop that will wake the dead.

But if you want something quieter, there’s also the NB500, which has the same specs but without the sound system and stepping down to an Atom N455, while it rocks a lower price. Both ship in the first quarter of 2011.

We’ve seen magazine companies bundle content with hard drive purchases in the past. Remember the National Geographic external hard drive? Well now we have a bundle that’s a little more adult oriented.

The Playboy $300 250GB hard drive contains every single issue of the magazine dating back to 1953. That’s a lot of boobs and airbrushing for sure. $300 is expensive for a hard drive, sure, but you’re really paying for the boobs.

Today Dell Dell made the Inspiron Duo official. It’s their first tablet netbook and a clear attempt at a more direct Windows alternative to the iPad. The 10-inch display revolves vertically and turns the Duo into either a multi-touch slate or a touch-aware netbook. A custom layer on top of Windows 7 gives users access to media, the web and an e-reading app.

Some specs include a 1.5GHz dual-core Atom, 2GB of RAM and a Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator that can drive 1080p video either directly or in Flash. A 250GB drive also comes standard. Users can also turn the Duo into a clock radio and media player with an optional JBL speaker dock that cradles the tablet.

We know that Jolicloud will be introducing its own netbook, the Jolibook, soon, and word is that those in the UK will be getting theirs this Friday, with a launch in other countries after that. Don’t expect the Jolibook to wow you with awesome specs, though.

There’s an Intel Atom N550 1.5GHz dual core processor, a 250GB hard drive and the Jolicloud Linux-based operating system, specially optimized to run on netbooks. The Jolibook may make a name for itself in educational institutions in the UK since Jolicloud is currently talking to education suppliers over there.

You might remember the Jolicloud operating system, which is Linux based and was intended to run on low-power netbook computers. The Jolicloud company has announced that this month they will launch their own netbook that uses the OS.

It will be called the Jolibook. We still don’t have a price or many hardware details. The few specs we do know about include a 10.1-inch screen and it will run the Jolicloud 1.1 operating system and use an Intel Atom N550 CPU and have a 250GB HDD.

The Archos 70 Android tablet is now finally available for purchase on Archos’ official website. The tablet device sells for $274.99 (w/ 8GB of flash storage) or $349.99 (w/ 250GB hard drive).

The Archos 70 features a 7-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, a microSD card slot, a front VGA camera, a G-sensor, 720p HD video playback support, WiFi, Bluetooth, a USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port, a built-in stand and the Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS is running the show.

If you’re looking for something that will give you fast performance without taking up much desk real estate, then the Zotac HD-ID40 might be for you. This time around it won’t have a Blu-ray drive inside, but you will have a dual-core Atom D525 processor and 2GB RAM.

There’s also a 250GB hard drive, a memory card reader, and an NVIDIA Ion graphics chipset. No info on pricing yet however, but we do know that it will be hitting the market soon.

Acer has officially unveiled a new Aspire One netbook, the Happy. This dual-boot computer uses both Windows 7 and Android and has a pastel color palette that includes blue, green, pink and purple. The 10.1-inch, 1024×600 display is complemented by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom with 1GB of RAM.

A dual-core 1.5GHz Atom is optional, as well as 2GB of RAM with that CPU only. A 160GB hard drive is standard, and a 250GB unit is optional. There’s also a six-cell battery …

Acer has been in the netbook business for years now. Sales of netbooks are slumping as tablets and full notebooks are doing better now that the worst of the economic slump is behinds us. Acer has announced the addition of a new netbook to its line.

The new machine is called the Aspire One AOD255. Acer will offer the machine with either an Atom N450 single-core CPU or a N550 dual-core CPU inside. The machines will both support DDR3 and get 1GB of memory standard. Storage for the machine is to a 250GB HDD.

Android tablets are a dime a dozen, but Windows 7 tablets are not so numerous. So if you have been looking for a Windows tablet this may be it. The CTL 2goPad SL10 features a capacitive touchscreen, an Intel Atom N450 CPU, a 250GB hard drive, and 2GB of RAM.

This tablet also fully supports both HTML 5 and Flash, and has a 1.3 megapixel webcam. If you like what you see, the 2goPad SL10 is available to pre-order now at $499, and should begin shipping on October 15th.

Microsoft has finally announced the pricing of its second Kinect bundle, which will launch along with the standalone and 4GB options on November 4 in the US and November 10 in Europe. The new package consists of the 250GB slim version of the Xbox 360, the motion tracker, a spare controller, and a copy of Kinect Adventures.

Pricing is on the high side. Kotaku is reporting $399 for the US and Microsoft confirmed £300 for the UK. You won’t have a long wait now.