All Entries Tagged With: "notebooks"
Asus N56VM – Review
The arrival of Intel’s third-gen Ivy Bridge CPUs means massive discounts are starting to appear on machines featuring the old Sandy Bridge generation of processors. But some people won’t be swayed from buying an Ivy Bridger anyhow. Such as the Asus N56VM , priced at $1200, a 15.6-inch desktop replacement. That means powerful. The Asus [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Gigabyte P2542G Notebook – Preview
Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte unveiled the P2542G gaming laptop at CeBIT in Hannover a couple of weeks back. The Gigabyte P2542G packs in an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 CPU, a 2GB NVidia Geforce GTX660M dedicated graphics card and a full HD 1920 x 1080p screen. P2542G also offers a Blu-ray drive and a THX-certified dual-woofer audio [...]
Toshiba Updates Satellite Notebooks
Last week Toshiba announced a whole bunch of new products, amongst them a new Qosmio X870 and upgrades for both the Satellite C and Satellite P budget series. A very capable glasses-free 3D model was also announced. Now the japanese tech giant has announced updates to the Satellite L Series, known as the Satellite L800 [...]
Gateway NV55S05u – Review
The 15-inch Gateway NV55S05u is notable for its excellent graphics performance and chic white design, all for $579. There are actually 17 possible configurations for the Gateway NV55S05u, with an assortment of AMD and Intel CPUs to choose from. Our test model had a a 1.5GHz AMD Quad-core A8-3500M CPU coupled with an AMD Radeon [...]
Kogan Agora Pro – Review
Kogan is established in Australia as a budget consumer electronics manufacturer which undercuts the larger producers by selling direct to web customers. Now Kogan has launched its first notebook in Europe with the Kogan Agora Pro, which runs the latest desktop version of Linux’s Ubuntu 11.04 OS. The Agora Pro features an 11″ screen, but [...]
Toshiba Satellite L755D – Review
The Toshiba Satellite L755D is one of the first notebooks to use AMD’s new Llano architecture, and it’s impressive to see a quad-core processor on a budget notebook, but more importantly one that doesn’t shirk on any particular count. The Toshiba Satellite ships with a generous 6GB of RAM with a capacious 320GB hard drive [...]
Dell Vostro V131 – Review
The Dell Vostro V131 is aimed at the small and medium business consumer. The Vostro V131 is an affordable 13.3″ ultraportable which falls within even tight IT budgets. The lastest incarnation of the range incorporates Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and a removable battery. It’s a fine-looking businesss notebook, done out in dark gray and silver. [...]
Sony Vaio S Review
Sony has released a new 15.5-inch 1080p edition to the VAIO S Series, complete with BluRay reader. The 15-inch Sony Vaio S Series shares a lot of design features with the smaller SA and SB versions. Same magnesium alloy case, same angular design – though a closer look reveals some crucial differences. Although the magnesium [...]
