All Entries Tagged With: "specs"
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 [...]
Windows 8 Will Boot More Quickly
Windows 8 is to showcase a faster new boot method which will greatly reduce the time for the OS to get up and running. The new procedure should slash boot times by 65%, and Microsoft have demonstrated an SSD notebook booting in just eight seconds. Windows President Steve Sinofsky reported in a blog post that [...]
Jexaa JexTab 812 HD – Review
Jexaa is a British company specializing in budget Android tablets, and as with many other budget models curently on sale, its Jexaa JexTab 812 HD doesn’t feature Honeycomb. Instead the JexTab 812 offers a tweaked version of the Android 2.3 OS, which was actually designed for smartphones. Such a leap usually brings serious problems because [...]
ViewSonic ViewBook 730 – Review
Now Viewsonic is targeting the 7-inch tablet market with its budget-level dual-core ViewBook 730. The ViewSonic ViewBook 730 can be gotten for $230, so comparing this budget-spec budget-priced tablet to its full-sized, full-featured, and full-priced brethren would be unfair – a better comparison is with the Archos 70 or the Nook Color. The ViewBook 730 [...]
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. [...]
Packard Bell Liberty Tab – Review
Similarities between the Packard Bell Liberty Tab and the Acer Iconia A500 tablet reflect the fact that Acer owns Packard Bell. Both tablets feature 10.1″ 1280 x 800 displays, with metallic strips top and bottom, and all major ports and components are in the same positions. The Packard Bell Liberty Tab has a microSD slot, [...]
Toshiba Announces Thrive Upgrade
Toshiba has announced an upgrade to the Thrive at the 2011 IFA in Berlin. The new tab takes the form of an ultra-thin successor to the Thrive, managing to cram in all the features of the original plus a few enhancements to boot. The new feature list includes a 10.1 ultra-thin brushed metal casing with [...]
ASUS Eee Box EB1501P – Review
The compact ASUS Eee Box EB1501P is a multimedia box that offers Full 1080p HD multimedia and snappy multitasking execution, thanks to an Intel Atom D525 dual-core CPU and next-gen NVidia Ion graphics. The Eee Box is roughly the size of a paperback novel and uses 70% less power than the average desktop. The 1.8Ghz [...]
Windows 8 Spec Kept Low
Microsoft has made it known that Windows 8 system requirements will be as low if not lower than those for Windows 7. The Vice President of Microsoft’s Windows division added that intelligence has been built into Windows 8 so that the OS ‘can adapt to the user experience based on the user’s hardware.’ So the [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad Z370 – Review
Lenovo presents the all-new Lenovo IdeaPad Z370 – a 13.3-inch notebook, slick and portable. Lenovo traditionally makes its budget notebooks look more expensive than they really are, and so too with the Lenovo IdeaPad Z370. The IdeaPad Z370 measures 12.9 x 8.7 x 0.8~1.3 inches and weighs in at a very light 4.4 pounds. The palm rest [...]
