Archive for the ‘Notebook Reviews’ Category

How It Works: Batteries

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The "How it Works" series returns with the installment every laptop owner needs to read: batteries. Unlike previous "How It Works" articles, this is a situation where explaining how the battery itself works is largely irrelevant. Instead, it's more important to know how to choose a battery, how to save battery life, and how the battery itself decays.

ASUS F8VA-B1 User Review

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
With the market taking a seat on a rollercoaster, consumers may have doubt about whether or not to shell out the cash to purchase a high end laptop. Fortunately, ASUS has brought the F8VA-B1 to the market, which offers all of the impressive features of an expensive laptop, but slashes the price down to about $1,200. The result is a great portable laptop. Take a look at what one owner thinks of this notebook in a user review.

HP TouchSmart tx2 Brings Multi-Touch Screen To Notebooks

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
HP today introduced its latest addition to the TouchSmart family of personal computers, the TouchSmart tx2 notebook. The HP TouchSmart tx2 features a 12-inch widescreen multi-touch display, AMD processors and ATI graphics in an attractive mobile design. At last you can forget about a touchpad or mouse and simply touch the screen!

News Bits: Notebook External Graphics Card, Acer Takes #1 Spot, OLPC Partners With Amazon.com

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
  • Fujitsu external graphics card plays Crysis
  • Acer is number one global notebook vendor in Q3
  • Notebook makers keeping low inventories
  • OLPC partners with Amazon.com for Give One Get One program
  • USB 3.0 specification finalized
  • ASUS G50Vt-X1 Review

    Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
    The ASUS G50Vt-X1 is an "affordable" gaming notebook available through BestBuy for a low price of $1,249. Priced and configured to compete against other popular notebooks such as the Gateway FX series of notebooks, ASUS is taking aim at this new market segment. Once reserved for notebooks cost well over $2,000, we are seeing more and more companies try to get as low as possible in this slow economy. In this review we see how well the ASUS G50V does in the latest games such as Left 4 Dead and find out if it deserves a place at your next LAN party.

    Western Digital My Passport Studio Review

    Monday, November 17th, 2008
    The "My Passport" series of external hard drives has been Western Digital's most successful line of portable external hard drives for several years. The sleek casing, solid build quality, reasonable speed and tons of storage space continue to keep these USB-powered 2.5" 5400RPM SATA notebook hard drives popular. The all new My Passport Studio drives offer Mac users greater capacities and flexibility thanks to 320GB or 500GB storage options and the ability to connect the drive over USB, FireWire 400, or FireWire 800.

    ASUS Eee PC 900HA User Review

    Monday, November 17th, 2008
    The ASUS Eee PC 900HA is ASUS's latest 9" Eee PC model. It has the same small form factor as the previous 900 model but replaces the Solid State Drive with a 160GB hard drive. The previous 900 had a Linux and Windows XP version while the 900HA is only Windows XP. The Eee PC 901 and 904 are also 9" models but they have a significantly bigger chassis. As you will see the 900HA is a lot of netbook for only $350.

    Current Notebook and Tech Deals (Updated 11/17/2008)

    Monday, November 17th, 2008
  • 20% off coupon code for Dell Inspiron Laptops
  • HPShopping.com up to $250 off Pavilion Stackable Coupon Codes
  • Lenovo ThinkPad 15% off coupon code
  • Dell Vostro 2510 Business Notebook - $650 with Free Shipping
  • News Bits: AMD Netbook Processor, Intel Atom Dual-Core, Dell Vostro A860

    Saturday, November 15th, 2008
    AMD 'Conesus' Netbook CPU on the way
  • Dell launches Vostro A860 laptop
  • Intel Atom 330 dual-core bencmarked, less than impressive
  • ASUS depending on style to help notebook sales
  • Intel to phase out older notebook CPUs
  • Lenovo IdeaPad U330 Review

    Friday, November 14th, 2008
    The IdeaPad U330 is the stylish 13.3 consumer oriented notebook from Lenovo. With a slick chassis and thin frameless LCD, the U-series notebook is a huge step away from the popular ThinkPad series. Offering power-saving switchable graphics, HDMI out, touch sensitive media controls, and the Intel Centrino 2 platform the Lenovo IdeaPad U330 packs a big punch.