All Entries Tagged With: "review"
HP Sleekbooks
Intel is busy talking up the ultrabook format, while Apple is happy to sell its MacBook Air ultraportable on the strength of Apple’s reputation for hardware excellence. Now HP has taken the bull by the horns and announced its new Sleekbook form factor via stickers on the new 14 and 15.6-inch Envy models revealed this [...]
Eurocom Monster 1.0 (Clevo WS110ERF) – Review
The Alienware M11x is disappearing from gamers’ consciousness, but there’s no shortage of OEMs eager to fill the void. Such tip-top 11-inchers as the Maingear Pulse 11, and Origin EON11-S are now joined by the Clevo WS110ERF – an 11-inch beast of a notebook which also goes by the name of the Eurocom Monster 1.0. [...]
Fujitsu Lifebook E781 – Review
The Fujitsu Lifebook E781 is configurable in a range of options costing from $1100 to $1800. The unit reviewed here is the E781-MPCN2DE and costs $1400. At that price it’s a fairly well-specced business machine – matte 15.6-inch display, excellent port selection, modular slot and an all-important UMTS module for the ultimate in global connectivity. [...]
HP Envy 14 Spectre – Review
HP has been on fire lately as they released multimedia laptop DM4 with Dr. Dre Beats Audio sound system, then their business oriented ultrabook EliteBook Folio, then their new Probook B-series and S-series got upgraded and now another new ultrabook HP Envy Spectre. We have been given a sneak peak at this Spectre ultrabook at [...]
Intel HD4000 compared
Benchmarking is slightly tricky since CineBench is optimized for multi-core testing, giving a maximum score which reflects full system performaance, of which graphical output is only one part. 3DMark tests favor Intel CPUs since they generally outperform AMD chips and therefore need to be more closely scrutinized by the benchmarking software. Thus it was felt [...]
Eurocom Leopard 2.0 – Review
Eurocom has released the Leopard 2.0 notebook , described by the manufactrurer as a ‘gaming class notebook’. The Eurocom Leopard 2 stands out for its finessed contors, slick lighting effects and outstanding graphical oomph. And it’s a big beast – an 18.4-inch screen sits ready to display everything the Core i7 Extreme Edition CPU and [...]
Photoshop CS6 – Review
The most obvious change to the Creative Studio 6 version of Photoshop is the revamped interface – darker surrounding shades accentuate users’ images, and different brightness values can be set in Preferences to find your perfect modus operandi. New ‘Background Saves’ and ‘Auto-recovery’ should save budding artists and professionals alike the horror of wasted hours [...]
Asus Eee PC 1011CX – Review
Some manufacturers have ceased producing netbooks, other continue, not least because there is still a market for ultra-portable, low-priced Windows machines. Asus has released the Asus Eee PC 1011CX , packing in a third-gen Cedar Trail N2600 processor – a 1.6GHz dual-core hyper-threaded chip with GMA 3600 integrated Intel graphics. Four execution threads should mean [...]
HTC One X – Review
HTC had a difficult 2011, but the One X, One S and One V are a new trio of handsets that could well restore the company’s fortunes. All three smartphones run HTC’s lightweight Sense 4 UI atop Google Ice Cream Sandwich. AT&T One X launched on May 6 for $199 on contract. It loses NVidia’s [...]
Samsung Galaxy S3 – review
Enough tittle-tattle, it’s time for some cold hard, silicon and Gorilla Glass to put all those Samsung Galaxy S3 rumours to bed. The first thing that will strike consumers about the Samsung Galaxy S3 is its fantastically vibrant 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display. And delving a bit deeper, we’ll notice how wonderfully smoothy everything runs [...]
