Archive for April, 2008
WIN: Acer 17-inch laptop
April 28, 2008 3:07 am
We’ve teamed up with online retail specialist Play.com to give away a fantastic Acer Aspire 7520-6A1G08Mi to one lucky reader.
Featuring an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, 1024MB of memory and a spacious 80GB hard drive, it packs all the power and…
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Original post by Michael Browne
Reviewed: DPC Tech Frankenstein
3:00 am DPC Tech doesn’t have the same level of consumer awareness as Alienware or Dell XPS gaming laptops but the DPC Tech Frankenstein can claim a first: it’s the first laptop available in this country to sport a quad-core processor.
This is a desktop…
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Original post by Michael Browne
Do You Need a Mini-Notebook as a Second PC?
April 27, 2008 9:27 pmNo one knows better than us that mini-notebooks are a hot ticket. Thanks to their irresistibly small sizes and low prices, some of us at LAPTOP have even become a bit obsessed.
But not everyone has bit the bait, which brings up the question: “Who are these for, anyway?” We pitted two of our writers with […]
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Original post by ManishK
I was reading Liliputing blogger Brad Linder’s experiences with the HP Mini Note this morning and became increasingly jealous of his Mini-Note running Windows XP (his system was originally running Open SuSE). It isn’t so much that I dislike Vista (in fact, my Sony VAIO FZ which I am giving up for the Mini-Note for […]
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Teaching the Mini-Note to Video Conference With Skype
April 26, 2008 3:08 pmFor me to truly replace my laptop with the HP Mini-Note it must, and I mean must, be able to run Skype. I sign into Skype daily to talk to my old colleagues and I periodically video call with my sister in California and my friend in China. So when I read jkOnTheRun’s review […]
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Original post by ManishK
Ubuntu Hardy Heron up for Grabs
8:01 amCanonical’s Linux distribution Ubuntu 8.04, “Hardy Heron,” is now available from ubuntu.com. It’s completely free to download, and this time it’s even easier to make the move to Linux.
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Original post by Joshua Goldman
News Bits: LED backlighting increases, Averatec rugged notebooks, XP availability extended?
April 25, 2008 10:01 pmBallmer says XP sales could be extended
Vista a winner? Financial results say no
LED backlighting use in notebooks to increase rapidly
Averatec announces semi-rugged notebooks
AT&T and Starbucks to launch WiFi May 1
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Original post by info@technologyguide.com
Toshiba Satellite U405-S2830
12:59 pmToshiba’s thin-and-light Satellite U405 is a sleek alternative to the 13-inch MacBook, but is weighed down by excessive out-of-the-box bloatware.
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Original post by CNET Reviews – Most Recent Laptops
The initial reviews of the HP Mini-Note have been overwhelmingly positive, and HP itself has no shame in admitting it has made a killer system. A roomy 92 percent full-size keyboard and a glossy 8.9-inch screen are pretty sweet, but reviews of a system can only go so far. Thus I have taken the HP […]
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Asus M51 Review
8:42 amAsus might have become a household name recently thanks to the Eee PC, but this innovative company still makes a variety of traditional form factor laptops. The Asus M51 series notebooks are 15-inch laptops offered with a range of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, dedicated graphics, and enough extras to keep most students or families happy. We gave the M51 an in-depth review to see what makes this laptop worth a second look.
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