Published on Friday, June 25, 2010 by admin Toshiba A505D-S6987 brings us to an interesting crossroads. In recent years Toshiba has made a habit of producing fairly well-rounded and inexpensive notebooks—good values overall. The A505D we have on hand adds an AMD Turion II Ultra to the equation, specifically the M600 that exists near the top of AMD's mobile line (or did until the Phenom II refresh that's ...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by admin Lenovo is launching their IdeaPad Y560d today, which will be the company's first 3D enabled laptop. The display in question is a 15.6" 16:9 panel with a rather low 1366x768 resolution. To provide the 3D experience, Lenovo provides their "TriDef" technology that consists of the display, the glasses, and the software. The latter is of particular interest as Lenovo ...

Published on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by admin Ferrari. The name itself evokes images of supercars and racecars bearing the famed prancing horse logo, of glorious V12 exhaust notes, and red. Oh yes, Rosso Scuderia, quite possibly the most instantly recognizable color in the automotive world. So when Acer set out to create its latest Ferrari-branded laptop, it naturally decided to make the lid bright red...

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by admin ASUS has launched its fourth generation Eee PC netbooks, the Eee PC 1018, 1016 and 1015. They will all offer 10.1” displays in a slightly different chassis. The 1018 offers a premium experience with an aluminum finish, while the 1015 goes with a "soft touch" matte surface. The new range of netbooks feature instantaneous web access to ASUS’ cloud friendly ...

Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by admin Asus latest notebook G-series has been announced Computex 2010 today. There are two new models offered, the G73JW and G53. Those two Asus laptop are claimed to be world’s first notebok that already supported by WirelessHD technology and integrating SiBEAM’s advanced wireless video network chips which can be connected with display mini-card (DMC) modules....

Published on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by admin NVIDIA has been trailing AMD in terms of graphics performance and features since the launch of the Radeon 5000 series late last year. Missing the holiday shopping frenzy undoubtedly hurt, and AMD has enjoyed being the sole purveyor of DX11 hardware for six months. In late March, NVIDIA finally answered AMD with their launch of the desktop GTX 480 and GTX 47...

Published on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by admin Earlier today, Intel released more information with initial product demonstrations of their new CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) processors. On hand were Acer, ASUS, Gateway, Lenovo, and MSI laptops—likely with plenty more to follow. You can view the recorded Intel webcast—or you may find the PDF slides more your style—but we'll summarize the salient d...

Published on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by admin ASUS has been making great strides in the laptop designs over the past couple of years. It used to be that an ASUS laptop meant good performance with generally poor battery life at a reasonable price, but that all started to change with the launch of the original Eee PC. With the Eee PC, ASUS managed to usher in a whole new genre of laptop, the netbook, and with the d...

Published on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by admin Apple recently updated their MacBook Pro range, leaving the entry level MacBook and the niche MacBook Air looking rather left out. Now it is the white plastic MacBook's turn to be brought back to terms with its aluminum siblings. Like the 13” MacBook Pro, Apple has not incorporated an Intel Arrandale Core i3/5/7 processor in the new MacBook. This is disappointing co...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin Researchers at Cambridge University believe metal fibres, known as dendrites, are one of the main reasons why lithium batteries in phones, laptops and other devices overheat and catch fire. There have been several high-profile stories in recent years of iPods, laptop computers and phones spontaneously combusting, sometimes when they're in the owner's pocket or ha...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin Panasonic has announced its latest rugged notebook which is known as Toughbook 31. The rugged notebook has been designed to meet the military standard 810G for protection from six-foot drops, dust, shock, vibration, salt, fog and humidity as well as temperature extremes. The casing of the notebook has been fully sealed with magnesium alloy for improving water resistan...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin Gateway has announced the NV59C and NV7 series of notebooks featuring 15.6” and 17.3” screens respectively. These models will be Gateway’s two pronged attack on the crowded mainstream notebook market. Gateway is not only claiming that the new notebooks will offer the best in cinematic entertainment thanks to Blu-ray drives, vibrant16:9 displays and HDMI connec...

Published on Thursday, May 13, 2010 by admin There are quite a number of Android based netbooks in the market but if you are tight of budget and still would like to own one yourself, the recently announced entry level machine by Cherrypal, a Hong Kong based company may be one of your great options. Named as Cherrypal Asia, there are available in two different models with one at seven-inch while the other one a...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client After launching many consumer and business notebooks last week, HP have announced a further addition to their growing notebook family. The HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client is aimed at the user who regularly accesses servers and other remote storage solutions, and therefore requires a thin, light and reliable notebook where onboard storage is no...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin The worldwide leading innovator of audio, video, communications and IT products, Sony has announced the upcoming launch of its new updated, ultra-compact Sony VAIO P Series, which the company claims as its first laptop equipped with an integrated GPS, accelerometer sensor and Digital Compass. The new VAIO P full-featured notebook computer will incorporate Intel Atom C...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin We’ve already looked at a number of systems with Intel’s CULV platform, but interestingly, all of them have been of the dual-core variety. We frequently champion the CULV platform as offering massive battery life and decent performance at a very reasonable price, and usually present the lower end, single-core CULV machines as an alternative to netbooks. So it�...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin The first generation of HP ENVY notebooks were unfortunately let down by comparisons to the superior Apple MacBook Pro laptops which they shared a large amount of styling with and unfortunately shared the rather steep pricing. This coupled to some glaring omissions, like the lack of an internal optical drive and feeble connectivity of the 13” model, led to an uni...