Laptop Reviews

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Aspire 9300

Processor	64 X2
Memory	1 GB
Operating System	Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Home Basic
Display	17"
System Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics
Hard Disk Drive	160 GB
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth	2.0+EDR
Dimensions	15.7 x 11.6 x 1.2 inches
Weight	8.1 lbs
Power	90 watts

About Aspire 9300

The Acer Aspire 9300 can be used as an ideal desktop replacement. The Acer Aspire 9300 delivers plenty of usability. It plays the casual tasks as Web surfing or playing music or movie files smoothly. The main attraction of this laptop is its 17-inch wide-screen LCD display, offering a 1,400x900. This has Acer Crystalbrite technology which makes it crisp and reasonably bright. It can play and burn CD and DVDs. The large mousepad has a four-way rocker switch between its mouse buttons that can be used to scroll through Web pages. The sensibly arranged keyboard of this Acer Aspire includes a numerical keypad. The dark touchpad and mouse buttons integrate a four-way rocker button that scrolls Web and application pages both vertically and horizontally. There's a rotating built-in Web cam above the screen allowing user to shoot behind the computer's lid also.

The Acer Aspire 9300 includes a 1.6GHz Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and an Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics card. The Acer laptop has a powerful battery which lasts 2.5 hours, far above average for a desktop replacement's battery life. It performs marvelously for Web surfers and word processors looking for a big screen, a full-size keyboard, and lots of file storage at a modest price. At 2.5 hours, its battery life is surprisingly good. The Acer Aspire 9300 desktop replacement is very affordable.

Aspire 3000

Processor	AMD Mobile Sempron 3000+ / 1.8 GHz
Memory	Installed Size 256 MB / 2 GB(max)
Operating System	Microsoft windows XP Home Edition
Display	15.4 inches
System Graphics	Video Graphics processor SiSM760GX
Hard Disk Drive	40 GB
Dimensions	14.3" x 11" x 1.5"
Weight	6.2 lbs
Power	4 cell Lithium ion battery
I/O Ports	Comprehensive I/O ports, including three USB 2.0 ports, a PC Card slot, modem and Ethernet ports

About Aspire 3000

The Acer Aspire 3000 is one of the great values laptops. The Acer Aspire 3000 is available in inexpensive price now. This is having spectacular features in it. It is a best choice to buy such a laptop notebook pc in low price. It is included with built in devices stereo speakers. The display type is of 15 in TFT matrix with maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 XGA. The most important thing to increase the speed is cache memory is type of L2 cache with 128KB size. The hard drive with in it is of 40GB. Lot of professionals are impressed with its performance. This notebook laptop will give pleasant work experience to the users. The display color support is with 24-bit for 16.7 million colors.

In Acer Aspire 3000 the storage controller type is IDE. This Acer Laptop's audio output type is sound card, input is microphone. It is also provided by one year warranty. When it comes to design part of Acer Aspire 3000 laptop it gets maximum points compare to other laptop pcs. The processor is featured with enhanced virus protection, streaming SIMD extensions 2 and hyper transport. For any laptop pc notebook the optical storage is important. The VGA port, 56kbps modem, Ethernet jacks, three USB 2.0 ports, one type II pc card slot and headphone, line-in, microphone are the three jacks all offered by Acer Laptops exclusively. In this Acer Aspire 3000 included with CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo as optical storage. The reading speed of CD/DVD is 24 x (CD)/8x (DVD). The write speed of CD/DVD is 24 x and rewrite speed of 24 x.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Reviews Result : Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Display More Accurate Than Macbook Pro

Well, this came as a surprise. Whether you liked Macs or you didn't, for a long time it has been hard not to concede that Macbook displays have been superior to standard notebook displays, much to the joy of photographers and designers everywhere. So what's all this about a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 topping the new MBP 15" in color accuracy?

Professional photographer Rob Galbraith uses his Dell Inspiron Mini 9 daily. No, it can't handle tough conversions and complex tasks, but it's perfect to "import, select and transmit JPEGs" as well as the standard netbook uses of email and web browsing. What he didn't expect was that the viewing quality would exceed that of the new 15" Macbook Pro.

Gilbraith's biggest problem with the new MBP is the don't-even-think-about-opening-that-shade all glass glossy display. The display caused enough problems, apparently, that the Macbook rated 4th out of the 4 laptops tested. Two Lenovo entries were also tested and they were rated the top two of the bunch, with the Dell coming in 3rd.

For the longest time, Apple laptop displays ruled the roost around here. With very few exceptions, going back to the days of the PowerBook G4, portable Macs were considerably more colour accurate [than anyone else]. Thanks to Lenovo, however, and Apple's decision to standardize on the glossiest of glossy screens... Macs are no longer at the top of the laptop display heap in our minds.

Gilbraith does admit that the viewing angles on the MBP are much better that those on the Dell Mini, and if your emphasis lies with that the MBP catapults all the way up to 3rd place in his rankings, passing the Mini. But no matter which way you look at it, this is visibly eye-popping news given the dramatic price difference between the Dell (~$300) and the MBP (~$2000).

Apple MacBook Review

Full review of Apple MacBook

For starters, a fair share of the new MacBook's circuitry comes from Nvidia instead of Intel. Most notably the 9400M integrated graphics, which is a big step up from the Intel X3100 found in the white MacBook. Apple claims it has five times the performance over the Intel IGP, but in the real world the difference is actually even more significant - the 9400M lets you to play some recent games whereas the old and tired Intel X3100 certainly does not.
Design

As far as the new design goes, this is arguably the best looking laptop since the Osborne 1. The no-doubt well paid broilers at Apple's design department have done an awesome job with the new "unibody" construction, allegedly made from a single piece of aluminum.

To get completely in line with an otherwise minimalistic design, they also decided to let go of the trackpad button altogether, opting for one built into the glass trackpad itself. Thanks to the multi-touch functionality, this works very well - actually there's no need to use the built-in button at all. The new four-finger gestures to bring down Expose and Spaces are also well implemented.
Connectivity

Unfortunately, they didn't bother to drill a lot of holes in that single piece of aluminum. There's not a single FireWire port to be found, which is bound to feel like a betrayal to many diehard Mac users with a room full of FireWire accessories. On top of that it only has a measly two USB ports and Apple's proprietary Mini DisplayPort, so forget about using your external monitor unless you fork over an additional $29 for a standard VGA or DVI adapter, or $99 (!) for the dual-link DVI adapter.

The new MacBook is available in two varieties (so far): one 2.0GHz version (our review sample) and a more expensive 2.4GHz model with a larger hard drive and backlit keyboard. Both models come with the same Nvidia chipset, a LED-backlit screen, and 2 gigs of top-of-the-line 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. It's worth mentioning that the hard drives that ship with the new MacBooks are very well isolated and silent. When the laptop is idle or doing light tasks like web browsing, it's almost inaudible.

Performance and Games

Thanks to the DDR3 memory, a 1066MHz front side bus, and the Nvidia chipset, the new MacBooks are faster than older models at the same CPU clock speed. Our 2.0GHz MacBook generated an Xbench score of 166.40. It is also perfectly capable of playing some games - WoW delivered fully playable framerates (50-60 fps) at high settings, which is to be expected from an aging game, but even Call of Duty 4 was playable with the settings tuned down a little. Apple promised five hours of battery life, which we found to be a little too optimistic, but the 4.5 hours we managed to squeeze out of it is still very good.

Overall, the aluminum MacBook is an excellent laptop. Although it's somewhat more expensive than we had hoped, you get a solid and great-looking laptop, and some features that you'll never find in a similar PC.
Apple MacBook Technical Specifications

Processor 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile
Memory 2GB DDR3
Harddrive 160GB
OS Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
Weight 5.0 lbs
Screen 13.3
Screen resolution 1280 x 800
Graphic Card Nvidia 9400M
Battery Life 4,5 hours

Sony VAIO Z Review

Full review of Sony VAIO Z

We haven't reviewed the Sony VAIO Z laptop yet - the following is a summary based on the hardware in the VAIO Z series.

Summary and Information

The VAIO Z series is one of Sony's premium ultraportable series, and is priced accordingly. Like most VAIOs it comes with a little extra, such as a high-resolution 'X-BRITE' LED-lit screen, a Blu-Ray player and dedicated graphics.

It's neither the thinnest or lightest laptop, like for instance the MacBook Air or the Lenovo X301, but makes up for it by using more powerful hardware. For example, the VAIO Z is equipped with the regular, higher clocked Core 2 Duo's, whereas its thinner competition use low-voltage CPUs. It even has a dedicated graphics card to help with the HD media playback and provide some light gaming capability, which is unusual in this weight category.

An optional upgrade that should make this laptop incredibly fast is the dual-SSD RAID configuration. This gives it almost double the performance of the already fast and completely silent Solid State Drive technology. Coincidentally, it also doubles the price tag - but hey, if you want the fastest laptop on the planet, I'm sure you don't expect it to be cheap.

Sony VAIO Z Technical Specifications

Processor 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile P9500
Memory 3GB DDR3
Harddrive 2x64GB SSD
OS Windows Vista Business
Weight 3.31 lbs
Screen 13.1
Screen resolution 1366 x 768 (WXGA)
Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Review

A healthy refresh to the previous generation X61 series, the Thinkpad X200 is the business professionals dream for mobile computing.
Full review of Lenovo ThinkPad X200

Thin and light is in. The new Lenovo ThinkPad X200 is the newest ultraportable designed to replace the ThinkPad X61 ultra-portable. A little brother to the 13.3-inch ThinkPad X300, the X200 encompasses elements of both machines in a lightweight package. Incorporating Intels newest Montevina platform, the Thinkpad X200 features Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 clocked at a speedy 2.4GHz with 3MB L2 cache and a low 25 TDP power consumption.

With respect to design, the ThinkPad X200 maintains the conservative black rubber finish built in a rugged chassis. Weighing in at only 2.95 pounds with the 4-cell battery, the ThinkPad X200 is designed for mobility. Our unit came with 9-cell battery which offered over twice the battery life but protrudes from the rear and adds additional weight. The 12.1-inch widescreen display features 1280x800 resolution with 16:10 aspect ratio. Overall, the display is nice to the eyes. Viewing angles are adequate and display-brightness is sufficiently lit. With a thin and light machine, the Thinkpad X200 omits an optical drive. Instead, you're welcome to order an external USB 2.0 DVD drive (like the MacBook Air). In terms of the ports, this thin and light machine offers: 3 USB ports, monitor-out, Gigabit Ethernet, ExpressCard 54mm slot, Bluetooth and WLAN. There is an option for 1 media reader, or an SD card slot. Lenovo allows you to upgrade its hard drive up to 320GB capacity or 64GB Solid State Disk (SSD).

Some new stand-out features we should mention: spill flow keyboard, biometric finger print reader, LED light for dark environments, Webcam, ability to connect to GPS WWAN services from Verizon, Vodafone, or Telus. Battery Performance With our 9-cell battery, we were ecstatic to operate the machine for approximately 8 hours and 47 minutes. You read right. Normal usage of web surfing, word processing, and listening to music.

Conclusion

The Thinkpad X200 will serve a specific audience: mobile professionals who demand power and portability. The X200 fills this void without a doubt, offering excellent battery life and power under the hood that matches most mid-size entertainment laptops twice its size. Although the X200 isnt like the X300, its more affordable The ThinkPad X200 is a welcome improvement over the popular X61 series.

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Technical Specifications

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4 GHz
Memory 2GB
Harddrive 160GB
OS Windows Vista
Weight 3
Screen 12.1-inch
Screen resolution 1280x800
Graphic Card Intel
Battery Life 8 hours

Fujitsu U810 Ultraportable Tablet Review

Laptop + Ultra Mobile PC + Tablet = Fujitsu LifeBook U810. Think this mini-sub-tablet Ultra Mobile PC laptop as the Swiss army knife of ultra portable computing.

Full review of Fujitsu U810 Ultraportable Tablet

Laptop + Ultra Mobile PC + Tablet = Fujitsu LifeBook U810. Think this mini-sub-tablet Ultra Mobile PC laptop as the Swiss army knife of ultra portable computing. This little thing has a functional keyboard that can flip the screen that becomes a tablet with full touch-screen capabilities. Weighing only 1.56lbs and measuring 6.75-in x 6-in x 1-in, the Lifebook U810 is certainly is absolutely tiny, especially when you consider itâ��s a fully Vista-capable computer running inside.

The U810 can turn into 3 setups: laptop, tablet, or UMPC modes. Swivel and flip the screen over, and the device can be used as a UMPC (Ultra mobile portable computer). You can pull out the stylus and use it as a portable tablet. For a tiny machine, expect a tiny 56-key QWERTY keyboard that you can (barely) use if you find you need to type as a laptop. As you may expect, due to the size, its missing a lot key connection ports like: VGA output, expansion slots, and a half dozen USB ports. Instead, youll get one USB 2.0 port, SD media slot AND Compact Flash slots on either sides, a connection port to connect a Fujitsus Ethernet dongle and accessories. The remaining ports include the charger, headphone and microphone ports.

Intels mobile A110 processor found in other mobile devices (Smart phones and UMPCS) and runs at a modest 800MHz coupled with the Intel 945 chipset. Also includes 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a 4200RPM 40GB hard drive. The 5.6-inch LCD screen (1024 x 600) is a sharp little glossy display with accurate touch-screen functionality that gives the imot plenty of flexibility to work with. Feel free to swivel and rotate the screen. Thankfully, the U810 is able to offer 802.11a/b/g WiFi, a finger-print access, and built-in webcam.

Performance

The Fujitsu comes pre-installed with Microsoft Vista. What does that mean? The load times are downright atrocious, taking up to 2 minutes to get to the desktop screen when powering up. Itâ��s so slow that by the time Vista is fully ready to use, you already feel like the computer has already drained half the battery. However, things run much better as we noticed no slow down in web browsing and general desktop usages. The Fujitsu U810 managed only an average 3 hours of battery time running mixed video, web browsing, and data entry. Thats very disappointing for a machine of this size.

Conclusion

All all in one portable machine designed to offer mobile users to work, its certainly not perfect. With the lack of some ports and poor performance, its not ideal for users who demand power. Rather, its designed for casual users who need more than just a PDA. For those looking for a versatile portable computer, this is worth it. But if you dont mind having something bigger, go for a real tablet PC or ultra-portable laptop.

Fujitsu U810 Ultraportable Tablet Technical Specifications

Processor Intel A110 800MHz
Memory 1GB DDR2
Harddrive 40GB
OS Windows Vista Premium
Weight 1.2
Screen 5.6 inches
Screen resolution 1024x600
Graphic Card Mobile Intel Express 945GM
Battery Life 3

Toshiba Qosmio G45 Review

A powerful Multimedia notebook with HD-DVD and HD-enabled features.
Full review of Toshiba Qosmio G45

With Blu-ray winning HD format war, Toshiba attempted to release an HD solution in the Qosmio G45 laptop. The laptop comes with a HD-DVD burner as well as a plethora of features to support a theater-like experience starting from the powerful speakers to the razor sharp 17-inch widescreen display Large and in charge, the Qosmio G45 comes with a black-piano finish lid that contrasts the white keyboard. Although the aesthetic design is quite impressive, picking up the laptop isnâ��t quite impressive. The laptop weighs in at a massive 10 pounds, which will either break your back or enlarge your biceps.

Features

The Toshiba Qosmio G45 comes with everything youd expect in a multimedia machine. HDMI-in and HDMI-out, ExpressCard slot, Memory Card slot Firewire, USB 2.0, audio ports (line-in, microphone, headphone, and S/P DIF out), LAN, S-Video, DVI, power and ports for infrared remote controls. It also comes with Bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11 a/g/n. Phew! The most distinctive feature is the vibrant 1080p 17-inch Widescreen display capable of 1920x1200 resolution. What does this mean? HD quality video. Powered by GeForce 8600M graphics card, it supports for HDCP (HDMI output) and integrated HDTV encoder for 1080i/1080p TV content. Of course, having great video wonâ��t be a complete entertainment experience with great sound. Built with 4 Harman/kardon speakers coupled with 1 Bass Reflex sub-woofer, this surround sound setup produces great sound when watching movies or digital cable.

Whether youâ��ll be gaming or watching HD-DVD movies, the G45 performed effectively with only a few minor slowdowns, which didnâ��t deter from the overall movie experience. In everyday tasks, from word processing, surfing the internet and the photo-editing, the G45 will do everything pretty well, thanks in part to the abundant 3GB RAM, which is the only upgradeable component of this laptop. The battery performance when watching a movie was dismal - lasting only half of Batman Begins on HD-DVD. The battery depleted after 1:14 into the movie with full brightness and sound on. Be sure to keep a spare battery or be near an outlet when watching movies. Otherwise, the battery performance was around 2 hours under normal, everyday use. If you need a power laptop capable of HD entertainment, Photoshop, or gaming, this unit is for you. If you plan on traveling, you probably want to opt for another system as its mediocre battery life and weight is made for the desk (or living room) and no where else.

Toshiba Qosmio G45 Technical Specifications.