All Entries Tagged With: "notebooks"
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 [...]
How to extend battery life
Although laptops are the epitome of convenience and mobile work efficiency, snags like dead batteries can leave you frustrated and impotent. Battery life is a key feature of laptops because nobody wants to find themself out of power. Fortunately, battery performance is affected by computer usage, so you can take an active role in extending [...]
Review: Dell XPS 15z
In the past, the ultra thin laptops were the greatest motivations for Dell engineers and designers, only to fail miserably in one feature or another. It could be a lousy battery life, low performance or just tad too pricey. Now, in 2011, Dell promised something that will balance out all these issues. For quite some [...]
Whitebox cheaper brands of tablets emerging
Display Search released Mobile PC shipment and Forecast Report. In diagram above we can see that Apple still dominates Tablet market by whopping 53.6%, but we also see quickly emerging and fast growing segment of local or non-branded manufacturers – whitebox. In Q4 of last year whitebox produced 567K units and by growth of 235% [...]
OpenTablet 10 with transreflective display by OpenPeak
Open Peak recently released its 7 inch tablet and now, they just introduced the new OpenTablet 10. It is quite bigger than the first one and on top of that, it uses a trans-reflective display. This means, you will not have a hard time reading on the device and using it outdoors. The company has [...]
Hands On: HP Pavillion dm1 with AMD Fusion
Ay $480, you would not expect the most amazing ultraportable, unless you do not know HP. Recently, the brand allowed a hands on test of the HP Pavilion dm1 for Laptop Mag. The new HP Pavilion dm1 utilizes the Fusion APU from AMD with a dual core CPU running at 1.6GHz.the GPU is a Radeon [...]
