Tag Archive for 'hands-on'
We had the opportunity to spends some hands-on time with Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200 recently, the company’s latest ultraportable and the smallest of the X-series notebooks. With a 12.1-inch, 1280 x 800 WXGA display and choice of 2.26GHz (P8400) or 2.4GHz (P8600) Intel Core 2 Duo processors, the X200 is just 0.8-inches thick. It’s also being compared [...]
HP have unveiled a set of new mobile workstations, the 8530w and 8730w, with options including Blu-ray, up to 8GB of RAM and the company’s WUXGA DreamColor display. Both notebooks have a choice of Intel Core2 Duo (up to 3.06 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache) or Core2 quad-core mobile processors, military-spec casings and a choice [...]
Sony invited us down to the Hilton in midtown Manhattan earlier on today to spend some hands-on time with their new 2008 VAIO lineup. While the company could never be accused of pushing out exactly unstylish notebooks, the latest Z, FW, SR and BZ machines are particularly successful when it comes to a cohesive and [...]
Sony Ericsson’s MBS-100 is disconcerting. It sits there, looking as though it might sprout legs or roll away at any moment. This 4 inch matte black orb looks snazzy, but the design face is asymmetrical, which has just enough of an effect that I unwillingly pause every time my eyes brush over it. The speaker [...]
Arielle’s i2i Stream exists for the phantom situation in which you and a number of your close personal friends congregate in a room, headphones in, music blasting, and suddenly realize that you all want to listen to one song, which only one of you has. You think, “What can we do? We have no speakers, [...]
Several hands-on iPhone 3G reports from after the WWDC 2008 Keynote are out, and as you might expect they’re all saying pretty much the same thing. Despite the few extra millimeters thickness over the old iPhone, Apple’s newly slimmed edges disguise it well and the plastic - which is a concession to the numerous wireless [...]





