Notebook
Clevo P270WM – World’s Best Notebook?
AVADirect is another manufacturer who has taken a new super-charged Sandy Bridge – E desktop processor and levered it into a notebook chassis – the new Clevo P270WM gaming laptop packs a six-core Intel i7-3930K or i7-3960X, accompanied by a pair of SLI NVidia GeForce GTX 580M dedicated graphics cards and four memory slots giving [...]
Toshiba Portege Z830 – Review
When we reviewed the Toshiba Portege Z835 ultrabook a while back, we said that Toshiba were planning a more price-conscious entry-level model which would be the first Core-i3 Toshiba ultrabook; here it is, packing an ultra-low voltage Intel i3. Toshiba claims the ultra-slim shell of the Portege Z830 is particularly durable thanks to a [...]
Sony Vaio YB35 – Review
The Sony Vaio YB35 offers solid performance and good battery life, all in an 11-inch shell for first-rate portability. Last-gen Atom netbooks are all but gone from the shelves, but the slightly-larger ultrabook format has shown that it wasn’t their size that sealed netbooks’ fate, it was their low-spec components. However, low-voltage CPUs are here [...]
HP Pavilion G7 – Review
The HP Pavilion G7-1353 is a 17-inch notebook measuring 412 x 268 x 37mm and tips the scales at 2.8kg. That’s about normal weight for a 17-inch notebook. HP Pavilion G7 is featuring a quad-core AMD processor clocked at 1.5Ghz and an integrated Radeon graphics chip, and HP have included a second, dedicated, graphics card [...]
Sony Vaio Z2 – Review
Sony has launched the new Vaio Z2 notebook, a 13.1-inch ultrabook with a breath-takingly sharp 1080p display and a second battery pack which can double mains-free runtime. There’s also an external dock box which gives users an optical drive and enhanced connectivity, as well as a dedicated GPU to cut through those pixel-crunching chores when [...]
Maingear Titan 17 Gaming Notebook – Preview
The Maingear Titan 17 Gaming Notebook is another desktop-processor packing behemoth – hardcore gamers and creative professionals are targeted in the upgrade to the new Sandy Bridge-E 2011-pin CPU. The Titan 17 is available with either an Intel i7-3930K or i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor, although budget machines they ain’t – prices start at $3499 for [...]
Eurocom Panther 4 – Elite Notebook
Eurocom is the latest manufacturer to launch a portable desktop replacement. Eurocom, who despite The name are based in Ontario, Canada, have announced The new Panther 4 model upgrade to last year’s Panther 3. The Eurocom Panther 4 is aimed at multimedia fans and gamers, and it sports a hot-off-the-factory-floor Intel Core i7-3960X desktop processor [...]
Dell Alienware M14x R2 – Preview
Dell is to release a new laptop aimed at hardcore gamers, the Alienware M14x R2. The release date seems to be timed to coincide with the launch of Intel’s next-gen 22nm Ivy Bridge processors. The Ivy Bridge architecture is the first to employ tri-gate transistors, which help reduce power consumption. Ivy Bridge also features Intel [...]
Asus U56E – Review
Asus claims that the U56E is a high-performance, maximum battery-life machine which should equip buyers for the office, all for $800. It runs on an i5-2430M CPU with 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive for storage. Yet machines with similar component lists are available. For direct comparison we suggest the Toshiba Satellite R850. The [...]
Packard Bell EasyNote TS13 – Review
The last generation EasyNote TS11 was already furnished with a Core-i5 Sandy Bridge CPU, and the TS13 upgrade boasts a similarly up-to-date spec list. The Intel i5-2450M processor inside the Packard Bell EasyNote TS13 features a base clock speed of 2.5GHz, rising to 2.8GHz in TurboBoost mode. That CPU is paired with a 2GB NVidia [...]
