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November 23, 2008

HP Pavilion dv3510nr

Filed under: HP Laptops — Laptops @ 10:22 am

The new HP’s Pavilion dv3510nr comes with a price tag $1,099, offers a thinner and lighter design and a backlit keyboard. This laptop comes with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, four GB of Random Assess memory, separate Nvidia graphics and a remote control for music and video.

Design

The new HP dv3510nr laptop is stylish 13 inches laptop. At 12.6×9.0×1.4 inches and the weight is 4.8 pounds, it fits closely into a courier bag, and too light to carry around.

Keyboard and Touch Controls

The HP dv3510nr has a very solid and quick to respond keyboard. Pressing Fn with the Space Bar turn on the backlight of the keyboard. The silver touchpad of the laptop worked well but provided more struggle than we’re used to. Backlit multimedia touch controls are present just above the keyboard. The volume controls of the laptop work fine.

Display, Webcam, and Speakers

The HP dv3510nr’s 13.3 inches, 1280×800 display screen has brilliant horizontal and vertical viewing angles, even though the display screen slant back just 45 degrees. 0.3 megapixels webcam is present which produced good visuals. The Altec Lansing speakers are adequately loud.

Ports and Remote Control

2 USB, USB/eSATA, HDMI, VGA, a Ethernet and a modem, five in one card reader, and an Express Card/34 slot.

CPU and Hard Drive Performance

The new HP dv3510nr comes with 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 and four GB RAM, the boot tome is very responsive for Windows Home Premium just in 75 seconds. The new HP dv3510nr laptop delivered soft presentation when playing a CD/DVD, Web surfing, and doing virus scan at the same time.

The 320 GB, 5400 rotation per minute hard disk drive on the HP dv3510nr copied 4.89GB of files in 3.56 minutes, a rate of 19.5MBps. That’s more than nearly 6MBps faster. The hard disk drive is protected by HP’s Protect Smart technology.

Graphics

The HP dv3510nr laptop’s separate Nvidia GeForce 9300M GPU performed fine. In spite of the little display size, the new HP dv3510nr should be sufficient for informal gaming.

Wi-Fi and Battery Life

The new HP dv3510nr laptop comes with Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 adapter. The HP dv3510’s 6 cell battery lasted three hours and forty minutes, twenty minutes lower the category standard and thirty minutes less than HP’s own claim.

November 22, 2008

Lenovo ThinkPad X200s

Filed under: Lenovo — Laptops @ 8:28 am

The Lenovo X200s features a light weight and rock-hard design with Lenovo’s typical matte black finish. 11.6×9.2×1.4 inches and weight is 2.6 pounds the laptop’s magnesium alloy outline is thicker than the feather weight MacBook Air. All the common ports are on-board, starting with 2 USB ports, 1 Ethernet, Express-Card/54 slot, a Wi-Fi switch and a VGA. The right side of the laptop has 1 USB port, head phone and microphone, and a port for modem connection. Up front of the laptop has a single SD Card reader.

The Lenovo X200s laptop sports the brilliant ThinkPad keyboard, which is solid and quick to respond.

Display and Audio

Lenovo X200s has 1440×900 pixels resolution, with 12.1-inches wide screen display. It outcome in sharper images. The display screen of the laptop is protected by a light and durable carbon fiber frame. The display screen’s dull finish make sure negligible glare, even though convenient viewing angles are restricted to 1 person on moreover side of the display screen. Audio quality is polite with a feeble base end.

Security and Durability

Biometric finger-print reader, the capacity to stop all ports in the laptop BIOS, and TPM circuitry to stay very important information away from snooping eyes. The shock mounted 160 GB, 7,200 rotations per minute hard disk drive and spill resistant keyboard propose protection from go down and liquid damage. Lenovo also offers 64 GB and 128 GB solid state drive configurations.

Exceptional Performance

The Lenovo X200s booted up in 57 seconds. The laptop comes with 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L9400 processor and two GB of Random Access Memory. Not shockingly, the Lenovo X200s isn’t a top mark gamer.

Hard Drive Test

The 160 GB, 7,200-rotation per minute hard disk drive copied 4.89GB of mixed media in 3.56 minutes.

Excellent Endurance

With a 4cell battery, the Lenovo X200s laptop delivered three hours and thirty minutes with continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi. However, the Lenovo X200s laptop really shined with the 9cell battery, lasting ten hours and forty two minutes.

Wireless Options

Lenovo X200s comes with Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity and 802.11n Wi-Fi. The Lenovo X200s features the possible Think-Vantage GPS Enabler that lets you to track your movements using Google Maps.

Preinstalled Software and Warranty

Lenovo X200s comes with Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Office 2007, McAfee anti virus, and the operating system is Microsoft Windows Vista Business. Lenovo backs the laptop with a 3 year warranty and toll free customer support.

November 21, 2008

Gateway laptop MC-78030u

Filed under: Gateway Laptops — Laptops @ 7:57 am

Gateway has launched its new Laptop, with 16 inches wide screen display and backlit keyboard.

Design

The new Gateway laptop MC-78030u in a new, striking look. Not as much of flashy than other Laptops like the HP HDX 16 laptop. The body of the system has just the correct point of gloss, balance with artificial black leather band that runs upright down the center of the cover. A brushed silver orderly on the cover and just about the ends of the frame includes a black tie appearance to the whole laptop.

The weight is 7.8 pounds and 15.3×10.4×1.7 inches which is too large and heavy in this segment, nearly 1 pound heavier than Sony VAIO FW, which also has nearly the same features. The HP HDX laptop, has the same display size but the weight is just 6.8 pounds.

The smooth design of the laptop extends under the cover to the keyboard and touchpad. The brushed metal palm-rest is relaxed and smooth. Adjoining the touchpad is glossy border that point in the direction of the touchpad. Below the touchpad of the laptop the two bulky touch buttons that are calm and very simple to press.The keyboard on the Gateway MC-78030u laptop is very silence and comfortable.

Backlit Touch Buttons

2 panels of touch responsive buttons side the Gateway MC-78030u laptop’s keyboard. Initial under the Power button on the right side are Video, Music, and Photo shortcut for Window Media Center. Below that 1 shortcut button is present for the browser, and 2 more buttons for Mail and instant messenger. On the right side Play/Pause/Stop, Fast-Forward, and Rewind buttons are present. And just under those is a volume control with a touch mute button under it.

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