Tag Archive for 'laptops'
Dell have unveiled two custom laptop designs courtesy of artist Mike Ming. The special editions - called Sea Sky and Bunch O Surfers - are based on the Inspiron 1525. As such, they’re budget models despite the glossy case graphics, albeit budget models with 3GB of RAM as standard, a minimum of 160GB hard-drive and [...]
As laptops get faster and better specified, so the potential threat to your lap increases; the market for heat-dissipating mats has increased massively over the past few years. Unlike foam-filled pads or risers bristling with fans, though, LapLogic sandwich a layer of Aerogel - the best thermal insulator known to man, and capable of [...]
If Gateway’s or Alienware’s gaming laptops don’t meet with your approval, how about MSI’s offering? The GX600X is an evolution of the GX600, packed with an Intel Centrino Duo CPU, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, a 15.4-inch widescreen display driven by NVIDIA’s 8600M GT, HDMI and an e-SATA connector. It also has the curious ‘Turbo’ button, [...]
Not exactly likely to overwhelm anybody in terms of appearance, Dell’s new range of Vostro notebooks are the epitome of budget-business. Three models have been introduced, the 1310, the 1510 and the 1710, differentiated primarily by their screen size. Where the 1310 has a 13.3-inch display and is called by Dell, at 4.6lb, an ultraportable, the 1510 [...]
Fujitsu sneakily put out an as-yet unannounced Tablet PC during a customer presentation in Germany last week, and an eagle-eyed spotter grabbed what scant details were on offer. Using Fujitsu’s LifeBook brand, the convertible notebook has a passive touchscreen display (e.g. you can use your finger rather than a specific stylus) measuring 13.3-inches. It also [...]
Alienware have released their latest gaming laptop, the m17x, and while it’s no ultraportable the specs more than make up for it. Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI graphics driving a 17-inch WUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD display, a choice of Core 2 Duo and Duo Extreme processors and an optional 1TB RAID0 array [...]
Airis’ Kira 740 ultraportable is a budget laptop very much along the lines of ASUS’ Eee: the big difference between the two is that the Kira uses a 1GHz Via C7 processor and has a 40GB conventional hard-drive compared to the Eee’s Intel CPU and flash storage. Other than that, it’s a similar case [...]
In the market for a new budget ultraportable notebook? In a way, I pity you: the burgeoning niche seemingly has new entrants every day, and a decision which once was “either cheap Eee or expensive Sony” now has multiple contenders. Liliputing know a thing or two about compact computers, and they’ve decided to [...]
MSI’s Wind ultraportable was only announced last month, but already Uruninceleme have had one in for a video fondle. Unfortunately for those not lucky enough to speak Turkish, the conversation between the two presenters is somewhat difficult to decipher; however, the Wind itself speaks in the international language of “cool gadget” and so we [...]
PC manufacturer Medion have taken a look at the ultraportable Eee-rival market and decided there’s no way it’s saturated enough; there’s plenty of room for their Akoya Mini E1210, an HP Mini-Note lookalike only bearing a 10-inch display rather than the HP’s 8.9 LCD. Powered by Intel’s new Atom ultra-efficient mobile processor, the usual Linux [...]
