LADY IN RED

Designed for fashionable ladies with a penchant for beefy computing power, the limited edition, rose red Q30 laptop from Samsung Electronics delivers. Priced at $17,880, the new notebook weighs only 1.09kg and measures a sleek 287.7x197.5x18.3mm. It features a 12-inch display, 1.1-gigahertz Intel Pentium M processor, 512-megabyte system memory, 40-gigabyte hard disk-drive, wireless local area network connectivity and a choice of Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional Edition operating system. Under a partnership between Samsung and cosmetics firm SK-II, buyers will receive a gift box and a voucher to attend an SK-II beauty class and receive the company's beauty imaging system diagnostics test worth $1,500.