Laptop Reviews

The eMachines EL1200-05w laptop is a $298 Wal-Mart special that proves the adage, "You get what you pay for."

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.

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.

The blah interface may disappoint some users, but on the whole, Sony's noise-canceling Walkman NWZ-S738F sounds great.

The versatile Toshiba Satellite M305-S4835 has both portable and desktop-replacement features in its DNA.

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!

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

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.

The LG 32LG30 delivers good picture quality in a stylish frame, but the competition in the small-screen space is heating up.

The Samsung Behold is a jack-of-all-trades, with a touch screen and 5-megapixel camera.