ASUS’ Eee PC continues to spark new competitors as the MSI Wind seeks to dethrone the current mini-book leader later next month. Both the MSI Wind and upcoming ASUS Eee PC 901 are powered by Intel’s Atom processor as detailed by DailyTech and have consumers foaming at the mouth considering ASUS may have to engage in a price war to compete with the robustly featured MSI Wind.

Switching to thicker portables, this week OCZ introduced their Do-It-Yourself Gaming Notebook Program. Unlike in the past where configuring and building your own gaming notebook was an exercise in futility all by your lonesome, OCZ is planning to offer customization and actual support with guides, documentation and a warranty to allow you to design your own gaming notebook. Now this isn’t the first time this has been done, but OCZ stresses that it’s the first initiative of its kind that really seeks to guide users through the process.

Fair enough, however will everyone jump on board considering the only configurable options are the CPU, RAM, HDD and OS? The overall DIY notebook market is practically non-existent and one of the main concerns among users is the lack of upgradable video cards in these systems. Based on the past failures of NVIDIA’s MXM and ATI’s AXIOM upgradeable interface and the unkept promises and conflicts concerning Dell and ASUS, it’s easy to say that true enthusiast friendly gaming notebooks are a pipe dream.

Lots of new stuff in this week’s recap:

And also, some sweet deals and updates:

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