Laptops

Lenovo ThinkPad W700

Laptops — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:56:55 +0000

Lenovo ThinkPad W700 comes with 17 inches display screen, a digitizer which is very helpful in Photoshop, CAD and CAM applications, an integrated color calibrator which is used for automatically adjusts the color and Intel mobile quad core processor all these comes with a price tag $3,802.

Design

Lenovo ThinkPad laptop measures 16.1×12.2×1.6 inches and the weighs of the laptop is 8.3 pounds. However, the power brick is one of the biggest and heaviest we’ve seen, measuring 6.7 x 3.3 x 1.5 inches and weighing 1.8 pounds. The laptop keyboard is very spacious and comfortable with a separate numeric keypad.

Display

17 inches display screen with 1920×1200 pixel resolution. Above the display screen a 1.3 mega pixel cam is present.

Samsung X460-44P

Laptops — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:25:09 +0000

With the new laptop X460-44P Samsung does extra than just fill up an ultra bright 14.1inchs screen and with an optical drive on the right side of the laptop into a extraordinarily thin body. This laptop shows design like no other laptop in its segment. The new Samsung X460-44P with a price tag of $1,699 backs up its fine glance, nice security features like fingerprint reader and TPM authentication.

Design

Adding style to a business laptop is a difficult scheme. The Samsung X460-44P laptop has few competitors in its segment. The laptop weighs just 4.2 pounds and 0.8-inch at its thinnest point to 1.3-inch. Flip the Samsung X460-44P laptop over and you will find some good features. A battery meter starts up after pressing a button.

Display, Webcam and Audio

The display is very bright. The X460-44P laptop pumps out 300 nits, nearly 48-50 nits brighter than laptops in this segment. The 1280×800 pixel resolutions with 14 inches display business laptops with 1440 x 900 screen. 2 small speakers are placed just above the keyboard.1.3 megapixel webcam just above the display screen.

Ports

The ports are available in on the back side of the laptop usually the business laptop has. Modem slot, 1 USB port, and an HDMI. 7-in-1 memory card reader on the front of the laptop, headphone and mic jacks are present on the left side, another USB port, VGA connector, and Ethernet slot. ExpressCard/34 slot, DVD burner, 3^rd USB port, and lock is present on the right side of the laptop.

Performance

The X460-44P comes with 2.26-GHz Intel Core2 Duo P8400 processor and Three GB of Random Access Memory offer good productivity and multitasking performance. The laptop’s performance we converted a 120MB video file to a Flash file. The Samsung X460-44P laptop did the task in just three minutes and some second, while the another laptops in this segment takes more time like Fujitsu LifeBook S6520, with 2.4-GHz processor which is faster but Two GB instead of Three GB of Random Access Memory, nearly took four minutes.

The X460-44P’s spacious 320GB hard drive was quick. It completed the LAPTOP Transfer Test (copying 4.97GB of mixed media files) in 4 minutes and 52 seconds, which works out to a transfer rate of 17.4 MBps. That’s about 1 MBps above average.

Battery Life and Wireless

The 6-cell battery lasted Four hours and nearly eighteen minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Test. 802.11n connection delivered throughput of Twenty Mbps at fifteen feet from the router, and 18.0 Mbps from Fifty feet.

Software and Warranty

Trial versions of McAfee Virus Scan and MS Office 2007,Samsung Magic Doctor and Samsung Update Plus, and Recovery Solution, and Easy Network Manager. The Samsung X460-44P laptop comes with 1year standard parts and labor warranty with 24/7 technical support.

Acer eMD260

Laptops — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:35:21 +0000

Price less than $400 generally mean netbook, rather than laptop. This laptop comes with a AMD Athlon processor and only one GB of Random Access Memory with 14.1 inch display, the Acer eMD620-5777 is worth a look.

The new Acer eMD620 laptop is very basic in design, including the black matte cover, ribbed plastic above the laptop’s keyboard, and the touchpad is surrounded with a thin silver frame. Measuring 13.0x 9.8×1.2–1.6 inches and 5.3 pounds.

The 14.1-inch shiny display with 1280×800 pixel resolution; is quite bright and produces sharp images quality. A 0.3 megapixel webcam is present just above the display screen. The speakers are located on the front edge, produce good sound. The new Acer eMD620 has just 2 USB, VGA, Ethernet slot, and headphone and mic jacks. The eMD620 is powered by single-core AMD’s Athlon 2650e processor running at 1.6 GHz, one GB of memory. Increasing the Random Access Memory to Two GB is easy. The laptop comes with ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card and the 5,400- Rotation Par Minute hard disk drive 160GB.

The 802.11b/g Wi-Fi laptop turned in good throughput of 20.4 Mbps (at 14-15 feet) and 18.9 Mbps (49 feet).

Software and Warranty

The Acer eMD260 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic, including Google Desktop, eMachines GameZone, and trial versions of Microsoft Office Home and a 2 month trial of Norton 360 Version2.0. The Acer eMD260 laptop comes with a standard 1year warranty.

Samsung Q310-34P

Laptops — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:14:59 +0000

The new Samsung Q310-34P laptop is a light weight notebook with a price tag of $1,299.

Design

The shiny black body of the Samsung Q310-34P laptop looks same just like other thin-and-light laptops. The Samsung Q310-34P laptop measures 12.7×9.5×1.1 inches and 4.8 pounds, the weight is nearly same as the HP Pavilion dv3510nr. A USB port, ExpressCard/34 slot, headphone and mic jacks and an 8X optical drive is available on the right side of the laptop. On the left side modem port, VGA and HDMI ports.

A 7-in-1 memory card reader is available on the front side of the laptop, Ethernet jack and two stacked USB ports are available on the rear side. The keyboard is fine but the touchpad is small.

Display and Audio

The 1280×800 pixel display screen looked fine, the audio is good and crisp. Integrated with 1.3 megapixel webcam.

Snappy Performance

The new Samsung Q310-34P comes with 2.2-GHz Intel Core2 Duo P8400 processor and Three GB of Random Access Memory that booted Vista operating system in a just 49 seconds. The 320GB, 5,400 rotations par minute hard disk drive and GMX4500 integrated GPU.

Wi-Fi Performance and Battery Life

The integrated 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi radio performance is nearly same and the data transfer rate of 20.0 Mbps at 14-15 feet, and nearly16 Mbps at 45-50 feet.

The Samsung Q310-34P delivers 4 hours and 41 minutes with its six-cell battery, which is nearly One hour longer than the HP Pavilion dv3510nr.

Bundled Software

The Samsung Q310-34P comes with Vista and preinstalled with Adobe Acrobat Reader, Light Scribe, and two months trial of MS Office Professional 2007. Samsung laptop comes with a 1year standard warranty and 24/7 tech support. The Samsung Q310-34P laptop is one of the better designed notebooks in the segment of 13-inch and offers fine performance.

Samsung R610

Laptops — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:17:06 +0000

The Samsung R610 is the lightest Sixteen inch laptop and with a price of $999. Like other Samsung laptop R610 has a shiny black exterior. Competitors such as the Acer Aspire 6930 and the HP Pavilion HDX 16, the new Samsung R610 laptop has no special buttons or media control center. The laptop lacks strong physical feedback; however, as the keyboard keys did not pop back. The 2 mouse buttons are quite easy. The display of the laptop is16 inch with the resolution of 1366×768. Viewing angles are good from 45-50 degrees, no light is reflecting off the smooth screen. Sound is loud enough to be heard across a big room.

The laptop comes with a webcam of 1.3 megapixel which delivers smooth video.

The left side of the Samsung R610 laptop comes with an ExpressCard slot, microphone and headphone, HDMI, VGA, and a USB port. The right side, contains one USB port and optical drive. The front lip houses the three-in-one card reader, the back of the laptop has the Ethernet, modem slot and a Kensington lock slots is also available, along with 2 more USB ports.

The Samsung R610 laptop comes with 2.0GHz Core2 Duo T5800 processor, three GB of RAM, and Nvidia GeForce graphics chip, 250GB, 5,400 rotation par minute Western Digital Scorpio Blue hard disk drive boot the laptop in just 59 sec.

Solid Wireless on the Samsung R610

The Samsung R610’s Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/n provide good transfer rates of 21 Mbps from fifteen feet and 16.9 Mbps from fifty feet.

With 6 cell battery, the Samsung R610 laptop managed only two hours and twenty seven minutes. Compared to other 16 inch systems, the battery life is nearly one hour short. But with 9-cell battery life to an excellent five hours and nearly fifty minutes and increased the weight to 6.5 pounds.

Bundled Software and Warranty

The Samsung R610 laptop comes with Samsung Magic Doctor, Samsung Recovery Solution III, and Play Camera.

Samsung provides a 1-year standard warranty.

Acer Aspire 6930G-6723.

Laptops — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:11:56 +0000

Acer Aspire 6930G-6723.

This laptop is just like the smaller sister to the Acer 8930G comes with Intel Core2 Duo, Nvidia graphic and Blu-ray. With a price tag of $999, this is okay laptop for who want a comparatively light weight desktop substitute that is not so pricey.

Attractive Design

The design is some where very similar to it previous range 8930G, the 6930G sports, this is an smart mix of texture, light up keys, and shiny finishes. The black cover of the 15.7×11.5×1.7 inch laptop’s look spiky and the silver company logo with white back lighting. The weighs of the laptop is1.8 pounds less than its own Acer 8930G.

Upon opening the cover of this laptop, a full size shiny black keyboard has a good feel and the textured palm rest. On one side of the laptop 2 USB 2.0 ports, Blu-ray, modem slot, and Kensington lock. Port for the power adapter, Ethernet, Display Port, VGA, 2 USB 2.0, HDMI, Express Card/54 slot, head phone and mic jacks are available on the left side of the laptop. A five in one card reader is on the front edge of the laptop.

Audio, Video, and Webcam

The laptop comes with shiny 16 inches display 1366×768 pixel resolution. 1.3 mega pixel webcam with basic utility, but the laptop lacks some extra features such as face tracking and special effects.

Performance

The new Acer 6930G laptop comes with Intel 2.0-GHz Core2 Duo T5800 processor and with four GB of RAM. The Acer 6930G booted the operating system Windows Home Premium in a 86 seconds, which is some where more slow. The laptop comes with a 5,400 rotation par minute, with a storage capacity of 320GB hard drive. The Acer 6930G laptop comes with Nvidia GeForce 9600M graphics card.

Battery and Wireless

The Acer 6930G battery lasted three hours and thirty four minutes on a charge, which is nearly 1 hour longer than the other laptops in this category. Intel’s 802.11a/g/n radio is good at fifteen feet from the ordinary router 22.0 Mbps and at fifty feet nearly18.3 Mbps.

Software and Warranty

The Acer 6930G comes with Acer’s multimedia center, Cyber Link Power Director 6, and a two month trial of Microsoft Office 2007. Acer laptop covers the 1year warranty and 24/7 customer care support.

Verdict

At $999 the laptop is very pocket friendly and provides an excellent multimedia experience and integrated with Blu-ray technology.

Apple MacBook 2008

Laptops — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:53:24 +0000

The new Apple MacBook 2008 is just not beautiful but also breaks the form for thin&light laptops. The Apple laptop’s chassis is of aluminum. The new Apple MacBook 2008 use some of the designs from MacBook Air an aluminum body with rounded corners. Like the Apple MacBook Air, it has a petty black key board.

Although the new Apple MacBook’s aluminum exterior looks smooth. Indeed, the new Apple MacBook laptop has12.8×8.9×1.0 inch chassis and the weight 4.5 pounds it is nearly 1/2 pound lighter than the previous Apple MacBook laptops.

All Touch, No Buttons

The laptops come in two versions with a price tag of $1,599 and $1,299. The higher version comes with island keyboard backlit in dim light; this feature is not available in the lower end version. The 13 inch Apple MacBook laptop’s keyboard keys feel a bit shallower .

HP Pavilion dv3510nr

Laptops — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:22:31 +0000

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.

Lenovo ThinkPad X200s

Laptops — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:28:58 +0000

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.

Gateway laptop MC-78030u

Laptops — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:57:16 +0000

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.