review-hardware
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 [...]
Toshiba N301 Cedar Trail Netbook
Toshiba has launched the first of its intel Cedar Trail netbooks in Japan – the Dynabook N301 packs the new premium Intel Atom N2800 1.86GHz CPU, with vastly improved graphical processing, taking the netbook into the realm of decently-capable mobile computing. It’s a dual core hyper-threaded microprocessor, meaning a total of four threads, backed up [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 – Preview
In a strange turn of events, a chunkier, slower version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus has been repackaged as the Galaxy Tab 2. According to the press release, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is just 10.5mm and weighs 344g, whereas the original 2010 Galaxy Tab 7.0 was 11.98mm thick and weighed slightly more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Acer Travelmate 8481TG – Review
The Acer Travelmate 8481TG is optimized for long battery life, sporting a low-voltage 1.6GHz Intel i5-2467M, and it can be configured with a faster 1.8GHz i7-2677M low-voltage CPU for even more performance, although the extra $400 being asked puts the Travelmate 8481TG into a higher, less justifiable price bracket, even with 8GB RAM instead of [...]
