All Entries Tagged With: "Laptops"
Dell Inspiron 15R – upgrade
A new special edition Dell Inspiron 15R has popped up on Dell’s Singaporean website, the new Inspiron 15R, kitted out with Intel’s new 22nm Ivy Bridge CPU. The 15.6-inch next-gen Inspiron 15R is packing a Core i7-3612QM chip with 8GB RAM and a high-end Radeon HD 7730M discrete grahics card. There’s also, wait for it, [...]
Origin EON11-S Gaming Notebook – Preview
The 11-inch gaming notebook lives on – just days after Dell announced the Alienware M11x 11-incher was being discontinued, Origin, a firm founded by former Alienware employees, has announced the EON11-S which Origin calls a ‘compact high-performance laptop’. The Alienware M11x is quietly being retired as its scaled-down gaming specs weren’t quite enough to tempt [...]
HP ProBook 6360B – Review
Here we review the runt of the ProBook B litter, the 13-inch 6360b targeted chiefly at corporate use. In HP’s words, tailor-made for those who wish to ‘work professionally on-the-go’. Let us take a closer look at HP ProBook 6360B notebook . The ProBook 6360B ranges in price from 760 to 1100 euros ($1450-$2000), according [...]
Samsung Series 3 – Review
For a great many people, a notebook doesn’t need to do too any things apart from let them surf the internet, edit documents, play video and perhaps run the odd game. That sort of person should be perfectly happy with the Samsung Series 3 305E7A 17″ notebook. Under the covers is an AMD A6-3420M quad-core [...]
Asus K93SM – review
Asus has overhauled its K93 series, with four new versions ranging from 850 to 1150 euros. The Asus K93SM notebook which is reviewed here is the top-of-the-ranger, equipped with a no-nonsense quad-core i7-2670QM CPU. The whole line features Asus’s IceCool design to keep the palm rest cool at all times and PalmProof technology, which can [...]
Schenker XMG P502 PRO – Review
The Schenker XMG P502 PRO is an upgrade to the 15-inch XMG P501 gaming notebook, itself rated amongst the best on the market at launch. This time round the chiclet-keyboard has fallen by the wayside in favor of conventional adjacent keys, and the screen has been upgraded to a matte panel. Powering the XMG P502 is [...]
MSI GTX783 – Review
At $2600 the MSI GT783 – 625US doesn’t come cheap, but it’s offers the sort of premium features and outstanding performance which justify such outlay for serious gamers or people in the market for an engineering-quality notebook. MSI GTX783 gaming notebook beats the similarly-priced Alienware M17x on almost every benchmark test. The GT783 features an [...]
Dell Alienware M18x To Get Ivy Bridge and Kepler
Dell’s super-heavyweight hardcore gaming notebook the Alienware M18x is slated for an upgrade to Ivy Bridge 22nm processors and new 28nm Kepler architecture NVidia graphics cards. In actual fact, the M18x, M17x, and M14x are all to receive upgrades, though the ‘super-powered netbook’ 11-inch M11x seems to have fallen by the wayside, at least for [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad L To Get Ivy Bridge
Lenovo is to update its ThinkPad L series. The 14-inch L430 and 15.6-inch L530 replace the L420 and L520 which themselves are no slouches, but the new L-updates will feature Ivy Bridge chips, whose improved efficiency should mean even more battery life than the 11 hours-plus offered by the current crop of ThinkPad L notebooks. [...]
Sony Vaio E 14P – Preview
Time for a paradigm shift – Sony is widening its Vaio E line of notebooks with a 14-incher complete with eye-catching design and some interesting new features. Backlit keyboard and outsized trackpad are just the beginning. The new Sony Vaio E Series 14P won’t be mistaken for an ultrabook, weighing 5 pounds and measuring 22mm [...]
