Laptops

   
 

October 15, 2008

Sony VAIO AW Series (VGN-AW180Y/Q)

Filed under: Sony laptops — Laptops @ 7:20 am

The Sony VAIO AW Series (VGN-AW180Y/Q) comes with 18.4 inches full HD screen with a broad viewing angles, TV tuner card, and Dolby speakers, Blu-ray.

Design

The Sony VAIO AW Series (VGN-AW180Y/Q) outside is not similar with the inside. In difference to the shiny black top, the inside of the laptop is entirely matte. The palm rest has a fine, rubbery feel that better than it looks.

The touchpad of the Laptop is smooth and has a black checkered pattern. The touch buttons of the laptop, while concrete, are little bit noisy and some where small.

Like other SONY VAIO laptops, the new SONY AW has flat and separated keys with the full number pad on the right side of the Laptop.

Two programmable key and touch sensitive controls just above the keyboard, and above the keys speaker and finger print reader.

Multimedia Experience

The Sony VAIO has 18.4 inches full HD screen is LED backlit with proprietary Xbrite technology.

October 13, 2008

Fujitsu LifeBook T5010

Filed under: Fujitsu Laptop — Laptops @ 3:08 pm

Like the previous launched Fujitsu LifeBook S6520, the new Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 laptop is a well curved changeable with an optical drive. In the new Fujitsu LifeBook T4440 company has also compressed in a larger 13.3 inches screen while adding little weight. These enhancements like pen input make this a business Laptop.

Design

The Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 laptop weighs 4.9 pounds and is 1.4 inches thick with DVD drive and after swapping it the Laptop weight down to 4.5 pounds. The keyboard is silver in color with black matte cover and palm rest give the laptop a bit of excitement.

While the Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 laptop might not stand out style wise. Its full size and spill resistant keyboard is spacious provided excellent feedback. The touchpad is wide.

The Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 laptop has array of ports, including 3 USB ports, Ethernet and Modem, FireWire, and a 2 in 1 card reader. On the front side of the laptop, a Wi-Fi switch and a finger print reader is available.

Display and Audio

The Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 has 13.3 inches WXGA display with the 1280×800 pixel glossy display. Vertical and horizontal viewing angles are fine.

The laptop’s tough, metal, bi-directional hinge allows the display rotate 180-degrees in both directions. The screen changes from portrait to landscape mode in a second.

The Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 contains 2 speakers on its back edge. The 1.3 mega-pixel cam above the screen served up superior images in a video chat.

October 6, 2008

Acer Ferrari 1000

Filed under: Acer Laptop — Laptops @ 11:59 am

Acer, official sponsor of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team launched its new Acer Ferrari 1000 Laptop comes with Carbon Fiber body, ferocious candy red trim with the Ferrari logo. The laptop weight is just 4 pound and comes with AMD Turion Dual Core chip and the thickness of the laptop is just 1.36-inch and the RAM of 768MB.

Features and Performance

Acer Ferrari 1000 laptop is powered by AMD Turion 64X2 TL 56 dual core processor sports a 2×512KB L2 cache and runs on 1800MHz Hyper Transport Bus. ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 chipset, RAM 768 MB DDR2 667 MHz , 12.1 inches Wide screen Display with the resolution of 1280×800 with CrystalBrite high-brightness LCD and with LED backlight to give crispy and bright viewing experience, 160GB SATA hard disk drive with 5400 RPM 8MB cache, 1.3 Megapixel webcam just above the display screen and the option for 6 and 3 cell battery.

Toshiba L350

Filed under: Toshiba Laptop — Laptops @ 10:55 am

Toshiba launched a L350 laptop from their Satellite Pro segment. It is a budget laptop. The laptop weight is about nine pounds, 15 inches display screen nearly 2 inches thick.

Features

The L350 laptop comes with Microsoft Windows XP, full size keyboard with a number pad, a wireless on/off switch, media card reader, microphone, headphone port, volume knob, VGA output, Ethernet, Modem Port, 3 USB 2.0 ports and a ExpressCard slot all that comes with a little over a $1000 price tag.

October 5, 2008

Asus M70sa

Filed under: ASUS Laptops — Laptops @ 12:00 pm

ASUS launched its new M70 laptop with 17-inch DTR multi media laptop comes with great features like ATI HD 3650 graphic card, 1 GB video RAM, one TB hard disk, 1.3 mega-pixel webcam, Tactile finish keyboard with number pad, four dedicated shortcut keys just above the laptop, five built-in speakers of Altec Lansing with a woofer on the bottom of the laptop and measuring in at 16.2″x11.8″x1.7″ with the weight of just over eight pounds with it’s nine cell battery.

Features and Performance The ASUS M70 laptop is definitely not a simple laptop comes with Infra Red, TV tuner port, four USB 2.0 ports, mini-firewire port, Express and SD card slot, wireless switch, a Blu-Ray drive, AV input, HDMI and RGB output, E-Sata connector, Ethernet and Modem slot.

The ASUS M70 laptop comes with a bundle of carrying bag, one USB mouse and HD tuner antenna.

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet

Filed under: Lenovo — Laptops @ 7:32 am

The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet Laptop is the latest convertible business laptop from Lenovo. This laptop doesn’t have the optical drive and a touch pad.

Design

The new X200 is very light in weight as like the mini-laptops because the use of carbon fiber and the glass fiber which extends range of the wireless antenna. The Lenovo X200 Tablet laptop comes with the four cell battery and weighs is 3.5 pounds. The bottom body of the laptop is made of a magnesium alloy, for extra durability.

The Lenovo X200 Tablet laptops features spill resistant keyboard, the keyboard is very responsive and the keys seem almost to jump back up to meet the fingers.

Above the keyboard of the Laptop the keys for audio control, and other ThinkVantage button, which launches is used for managing power and other laptop settings. The Lenovo X200 Tablet laptop features 3 USB 2.0 ports, one VGA, Five in One memory card reader, a Express Card/34/54, A Ethernet and a modem jack, and headphone, microphone jacks. Wi-Fi is present on the left side of the laptop to on and off. The laptop lacks an optical drive.

X200 Tablet Touch screen

Unlike previous Lenovo ThinkPad tablets laptops, which only allowed you to rotate the display screens only in single direction, but the new Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet laptop offers the ability to spin the display screen a full 360 degrees. In addition, the laptop sports a low reflectivity panel so that it performs well in Sunlight. The laptop has 1280×800 pixel resolution display screen.

The touch screen of new lenovo X200 now requires 28 % less pressure to register inputs, and the new Lenovo laptop now can better detect the stylus. Although the Lenovo X200 Tablet laptop we received had an LED backlit display screen that only recognizes the stylus inputs, but two other options are available in the market 1: CCFL panel which only recognize pen inputs 2: LED backlit panel which capable to recognize both pen and finger touch input.

The Lenovo X200 Tablet Laptop sense the stylus when it is nearly 3 quarters of an inch away from the display screen. Hand writing detection is very accurate.

Easy accessible buttons adjacent to the display screen that complement the laptop functionality. These allowed you to rotate the display screen, access menu shortcuts, power the laptop on and off and disable the laptop buttons.

HP HDX 16

Filed under: HP Laptops — Laptops @ 7:21 am

The new 6.8 pounds and 14.9×10.0×1.7 inches is quite small and light. However, Sony’s VAIO FW also offers a bigger 16.4 inch screen and the laptop weight is less at 6.7 pounds. The touch buttons are very easy to press. The touch pad on the laptop provide too much roughness.

Keyboard is quite comfortable. Touch buttons are above the keyboard and HP logo on the top.

Display and Audio

The laptop comes with 16 inch display screen, with its 1920×1080 pixel resolution. HDX 16 comes with in built TV tuner card. The speakers of Altec-Lansing and you can adjust the bass and treble by using touch buttons and the speakers are above the touch panel give loud sound.

October 4, 2008

Toshiba Qosmio G45

Filed under: Toshiba Laptop — Laptops @ 10:52 am

Toshiba introduce its new Blu-ray winning HD solutions in Qosmio G45. You will experience theater like sound quality with powerful speakers and sharp and crispy 17 inch wide display, the Toshiba Qosmio G45 laptop comes with a black piano finish cover with a white keyboard. Although the visual design is very impressive with the weighs of 10 pounds which is quite heavy then other laptops of this segment.

Features

The Toshiba Qosmio G45 is a multi media laptop and comes with all those features that you want in this segment like HDMI, Slots for Express and Memory Card, Firewire, DVI, USB 2.0, mic and headphone port, Ethernet, S-Video, Bluetooth 2.0, WI- FI ports for infrared remote controls. The most unique thing in this laptop is the vibrant 1080p 17 inch display powered by GeForce 8600M graphic card with 1920 x 1200 resolutions and supports for HDCP and integrated HDTV encoder plus four in-built speakers.

ASUS U6V

Filed under: ASUS Laptops — Laptops @ 7:20 am

The Centrino 2 powered new ASUS U6V laptop is certainly a attraction. With 3.8 pound weight offers very good productivity with above average graphics performance, and boot time is less than 51 seconds. The price tag of ASUS U6V is $1,649 which is quite reasonable with 320 GB hard disk and a 2year warranty.

Design

Measuring 11.7×8.6×1.2 inches and the weight of the laptop is 3.8 pounds. The laptop comes with 12.1 inch display.

Keyboard and Dedicated Controls

The keyboard is very spacious. A decent size touch pad with the two responsive small mouse buttons. A biometric finger print reader. 0.3 mega pixel web cam 3 USB 2.0, HDMI, oneVGA, One Ethernet jack, head phone, and a mic jack, and an 8 in 1 media card reader and Express Card slot.

ASUS G50V

Filed under: ASUS Laptops — Laptops @ 7:17 am

The new ASUS G50V laptop come with a price tag of $1,699 with 15.4 inches screen is perfect gaming laptop with bright lights, and neon orange inflections.

Design

The new ASUS laptop is brightly colored orange and black just looks like a gaming laptop, but its 15.4 inches screen is quite smaller than the other 19 inch gaming laptop. The laptop keyboard is little large, and a small numeric keypad is on the right side of the laptop. The touchpad and keyboard buttons offers great response.

4 touch buttons just above the keyboard for over clocking and customizing the messages another is for Windows Media Center in Vista and the third button for power performance profiles and the last to touchpad on and off.

Display and Audio

ASUS G50V’s 15.4 inches, 1680×1050 high definition display screen, colors lookes sharp and the picture quality is very bright. A 3.1 inches OLED just above the keyboard to display the available memory, CPU task and the system resources or display the custom message. A e-mail indicator icon is also present in this laptop, if you are using Microsoft Outlook.

The laptop came with a DVD burner and a Blu-ray. The G50V Laptop also has an eSATA port, a HDMI port for video to an HDTV. The ASUS G50V laptop has 2 Altec Lansing speakers. Surfing the Web, listening music, and make Skype calls ExpressGate do all for you.

October 3, 2008

HP EliteBook 2530p

Filed under: HP Laptops — Laptops @ 7:12 am

The new HP EliteBook 2530p laptop offers mobile broadband, tough, fast performance, long battery life and a sleek design.

Display and Sound

The 12.1 inches screen with resolution of 1280×800. HP Illumi-Lite LED backlit displays are standard. The speakers delivered unexpectedly loud sound. The HP 2530p laptop’s screen should be fine for making Power point presentations.

Features and Webcam

The new HP 2530p laptop has 2 USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire, one VGA port, modem and a Ethernet jack, microphone and head phone and a Kensington lock slot and finally a Express Card/54 slot and an SD Media card reader. The Laptop has 2 mega pixel web cam captured sharp, well lit still photos.

October 2, 2008

Sony VAIO VGN-TT198UBX

Filed under: Sony laptops — Laptops @ 10:20 am

Sony launched the world’s smallest laptop with an integrated Blue-ray technology with dual solid state drives and long battery life.

When you think of a Laptop that costs you nearly $4,000, with premium gaming rig and multi media. Sony looks to fulfill your dreams with its high end Laptop by packing a Intel Centrino 2 processor, recordable Blue-ray, an 256GB of solid state drive and mobile broad band into a attractive and ultra portable mini laptop. Priced at $4,344, the new Sony VAIO VGN-TT198UBX mini laptop is the extreme machine from cheap, the cost of laptop is nearly of Acer Aspire ones with 11.1 inchs display and HDTV technology.

Design

At first look, the new Sony VAIO VGN-TT198UBX 2.8-pound TT could beat the all other mini-laptops due to its compact size 11.0×7.9×0.9 inch. It is carbon fiber black chassis and also available in Champagne Gold and Crimson Red. The other Sony VAIO laptops, the TT features flat, Mac Book like keyboard and offer enough room for comfortable typing. A touchpad is just below the keyboard, two mouse buttons, and a finger print reader. Front bezel volume keys as well as a user definable short cut key.

The new Sony laptop contain 2 USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, FireWire, VGA, Ethernet Jack, Head phone, mic, SD Card slot and Two-in-One memory card reader and a Express Card/34 slot.

Screen and Webcam

Sony is the only one launched the Blu-ray drive in a Laptop with an 11.1 inch and 1366 x 768 screen. Audio is clear and loud. Laptop is integrated 1.3 mega pixel Motion Eye camera.

Fujitsu LifeBook S6520

Filed under: Fujitsu Laptop — Laptops @ 8:16 am

The new Fijitsu LifeBook S6520 is light weight and compact in size with 13.3 inches LCD display screen delivers the best viewing responce.

Design

S6520 laptop’s matte finish chassis has touches of shiny black and silver gray trim. While the Laptop’s looks aren’t awesome. The weight of the Laptop is Just 4.0 pounds and it is just 3.7 pounds if you switch out the optical drive. Apart from this the Lenovo ThinkPad T series weighs in nearly 1.2 pounds extra when ready with the same size display. The new Fijitsu S6520’s dimensions are also remarkably small at 12.4×9.2 inches, The Laptop foot print is smaller than the Lenovo ThinkPad T’s (13.2×9.3) and quite similar to that of many 13.3 inch laptops. Fujitsu has included 4 quick launched programmable buttons which are situated just above the Function key row, but no multi media control keys are available.

The laptop feels rock-solid in the hands and leftovers very quiet. The keyboard of the laptop is quite comfortable.

Display, Webcam and Audio

The 1280×800 shiny display delivere wide viewing angles. Volume from the in built speakers is not so good. The laptops comes with normal 1.3 mega pixel webcam. The face tracking feature of the laptop is great.

HP HDX 18

Filed under: HP Laptops — Laptops @ 7:35 am

The new HP HDX 18 comes with a aggressive price tag of $2,149 which nearly replace the desktop with a Blu ray drive, with four GB of RAM and full HD display screen with a 16:9 ratio, 4GB of RAM comes with Intel Centrino 2 platform.

Slick Design

The new HP laptop has glossy patterned cover with similar palm rests and a touch pads. Silver and black lines with charcoal background. The keyboard and the touch pad are silver in color, and the touch pad has black and charcoal lines.

At nine pounds, the HP HDX 18 is quite heavy, but it is still a typical weight for this display screen size.

The touch buttons of the laptop are quiet and easy to press. The laptop has a touch sensitive row of buttons just above the keyboard of the laptop that shine light purple. These buttons control media playback.

Multimedia Might

The speakers of Altec Lansing which lie above the touch panel of the laptop produced loud and high quality sound. HDX 18 has a inbuilt TV tuner card with an external antenna.

Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Filed under: Lenovo — Laptops @ 6:33 am

Lenovo has launched its new 10 inches mini laptop which is affordable, stylish, and easy to carry. As the same basic features like other netbooks a 9 or 10 inch display, an Intel Atom Processor running at 1.6 GHz, a 3 or 6 cell battery.

Design

The new Lenovo S10 laptop looks good and rooted in simplicity. The chassis is made from a shiny plastic. The flat and rounded edges give the laptop a thin look.

Keyboard

The lenovo S10’s keyboard is more spacious and comfortable than other 9 inch laptops such as the  Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and  Acer Aspire one . The key are not so responsive as other Mini laptops.

Touchpad and Buttons

The touchpad is 2.3×1.5 inches, which are little, bit small in size but its rough, and grip friendly surface is quite good. Using the touchpad’s multi touch functionality, you can to easily zoom in on and out on photos and Web pages.

The lenovo S10 mini laptop has two separate buttons below its touch pad. Unlike the ASUS Eee PC 1000 series with hard mouse button, these buttons of S10 offer the kind of strong yet comfortable click.

Panasonic Toughbook 30

Filed under: Panasonic — Laptops @ 6:23 am

Panasonic Tough book 30 have continues the trend of most tough laptops around. This fully rugged laptop may not be the overall good performer in this segment at $4,799.

Design

The Laptop equivalent of a tank, the Tough book 30 is built in a strong silver and black magnesium alloy chassis with a briefcase type handle. In this segment most 13.3 inch laptops are thin and light in weight, but the Panasonic Tough book 30 weighs is 8.4 pounds and it is 2.8 inches thick. The cover of the laptop is supported by two heavy hinges.

The display is 13.3 inch and daylight readable with touch screen. The display max resolution of 1024×768 is pretty low by today’s standards, but you can view images even in bright sun light, is a big plus point. The touch screen of the laptop is very responsive.

The keyboard response is good and little spacious, but the touch pad is a bit small. Below the touch pad there are six activity indicator lights.

Durability and Security

We put the Panasonic Tough book 30 laptop through some toughness tests. We dropped the laptop from the height of 38 inches on to a carpeted floor two times, making sure the laptop landed on two different edges. After drop, the laptop booted up and the laptop sustained no evidence of any damage.

We also test for moisture on the key board and touch pad of the Laptop by pouring water on two different spots on the key board. After wiping it down, we booted the laptop without any problem and the laptop functioned properly.

Each port and slot is protected by a gasket lined cover to prevent the laptop from moisture and dust.

The Panasonic Tough book 30 laptop have the latest security features, like Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip and theft protection software i.e. Computrace has the ability to track the stolen laptop, biometric finger print scanner and a Smart Card reader.

Lenovo U110 Series Laptop

Filed under: Lenovo — Laptops @ 6:17 am

Recently Lenovo has launched U110 series laptop. It has 11.1inches screen and the weighs is 1.13 kgs. The Processor of the laptop is 1.6GHz Core2 Duo and Intel X-3100 integrated graphics card.
This laptop comes with 120 GB of hard disk drive and 3 GB memory and in built 1.3 mega pixel web camera. It has wire-less connectivity, Ethernet as well as Bluetooth option. The laptop supports card slot and 3 USB 2.0 ports. It also comes with external DVD burner. The battery back is very good enough that run laptop for 8 hours
The laptop comes with the operating system Microsoft Windows Vista. This laptop looks great in performance, style and sleekness.
The laptop is portable and best for the home users. This laptop equipped with face-recognition technology. This feature makes it faster to easily log. Without going through the process of password authentication. The laptop is available in red and black color. It is also comes with integrated touch sensitive controls for multimedia.
The price range is nearly Rs. 73,720/- for the basic configuration.

Fujitsu A 6120

Filed under: Fujitsu Laptop — Laptops @ 6:16 am

This laptop is for those who usually surf web like checking mails, watch movies and hardly use heavy software. The new Fujitsu Life Book A 6120, a large and quality performing 15.4 inch laptop. If the customer needs are basic, he will get good performance laptop for the price tag of $799.

Design

The laptop is 1.6 inches thick and the weight is 6.6 pounds, and it looks modern than other budget laptops. The dark gray top matches the dull black keyboard.

Above the keyboard are short cut keys are present like internet search, home page of your choice, and 2 other keys which can programmable as per your requirements. The quick launch buttons are labeled in a large.

Keyboard and Touchpad Quality

Spill resistant keyboard and large. The touchpad of the laptop is little bit wide, friction is very minimum. The mouse buttons are very responsive and quiet.

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