Posts Tagged ‘Laptop Reviews’

As a company, ASUS has had a strong history of fitting dedicated graphics into its laptops in a fashion other notebook suppliers have been less apt to do. Yours truly owns a 14.1” ASUS laptop with a dedicated Nvidia GeForce 9600M GS, remarkably robust hardware for the size, and a jaunt over to Newegg's notebook section will reveal a healthy number of other ASUS machines ... Full story

We’ve been lusting after the new breed of thin and light CULV laptops ever since we saw the gorgeous MSI X320 at this year’s CES and now models are starting to arrive in earnest. We’ll have a review of the Advent Altro for you next week, but first up is the ASUS UX30. CULV laptops are based on Intel’s Consumer Ultra Low ... Full story

While the affordable mobility of netbook's has allowed the mini-laptop market to continue growing over the first-half of the year, a new market has since begun to grow. CULV, or Consumer Ultra Low Voltage, laptops aim to provide ample mobility in a compact chassis, while delivering greater power than a netbook, thanks to the use of higher powered, low-voltage processors, and the Advent Altro from ... Full story

SlashGear have carried out a brief review of Asus’ new ultraportable UX30, part of their new upcoming notebook line. No definite price or release date has been announced yet, however it is expected to retail at a price that will maybe be its major downfall. The Asus ultraportable UX30 runs a Intel CULV processor the entry level processor runs at 1.3GHz, it has ... Full story

As well as the BDX2000 Blu-ray player, Toshiba also ushered in this Satellite P500 Blu-ray laptop at IFA. Designed for the very high-end of the market and being able to read and write Blu-ray, it won't be cheap and is pretty darn heavy. We got a close up look at the new machine. ... Full story

I just got word from Samsung that the company plans to start shipping the Samsung N510 laptop in the US in September. The laptop packs an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, HDMI output, and it uses the NVIDIA ION platform, which bundles ... Full story

At an event in New York this evening, Dell released a new netbook co-branded with juvenile entertainment monolith Nickelodeon. The new "Nick Mini" is based on the successful Dell Mini 10v, retooled with extra branding, design and software additions to make it more of a kid-friendly gadget. ... Full story

Should I Get A Netbook? As the competition grows fiercer in the netbook category, these little laptops, which were once considered as simple web-surfing and word-processing devices, are now being recast as primary laptops for everyday tasks. Had you bought a netbook six months ago, you would've been dealt a 10-inch widescreen, a small keyboard, and a basic set of features. For $500 today, ... Full story

Citing sources from Asia, the Piper Jaffray analyst who has been on top of the rumored Apple tablet device has issued a report with even more details on what could be becoming Apple's worst-kept secret. Senior Analyst Gene Munster has written extensively about the tablet device, which some bloggers have taken to calling the "iPad." In his latest report, issued to clients ... Full story

Dell has announced it is to discontinue its Mini 12 netbook range worldwide. While the diminutive laptop series was stopped in the UK in June, it had continued to be produced overseas. But Dell has decided to pull the plug completely on the 12-inch Mini range, citing 10-inch displays are the "sweet spot" for its customers. ... Full story