All I get to hear lately in the format wars is Blu-Ray. In this note we now see Fujitsu getting in the game with a new line-up of personal computers, including the new FMV-Deskpower, the TEO90X/D. It comes equipped with a Blu-Ray disc player and recorder. The word “media” is definitely in the company’s repertoire as we have a HDMI output included. The problem is that the graphics card is an ATI Radeo Xpress 1250 and it only offers HD-Ready resolution of 1360X768. This might not be such a problem as it is more than enough for regular users and on the whole the PC is quite good. It is powered by an Intel Core 2 DUO T5500 processor at 1.66 GHz, has a hard disk of 500 GB, 2 GB of RAM memory and an incorporated TV Tuner. As expected, it will be sold in Japan for starters, at a price of 1640 EURO. Everything interesting seems to appear in Japan!

Hewlett-Packard just launched their first ever desktop PC with preloaded Linux in Australia. We have an HP DX2250 low-end business desktop system that is available with differend AMD processors. Possibilities range from the 1.6 GHz AMD Sempron 3000+ to the 2.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-COre 5600+. 2 GB of Ram are already installed and the hard drive can go as high as 250 GB. Depending on choices you can implement different optical storage devices from a normal CD drive to a DVD+/- RW LightScribe in Double Layer or Dual Format drive.

Talking about the Linux installation, we have Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, the Desktop version with Evolution 2.8 email and groupware client, Gnome 2.16 desktop manager, OpenOffice 2.04 and Firefox 2.0X web browser. Price starts at around $489 US and the package comes with three possible levels of technical support.

HP selling pre-loaded RHEL 5 Desktop versions is another blow to Microsoft that is starting to struggle. Hopefully for them Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will bring in a breath of fresh air.