The Samsung NB30 attempts to appeal strongly to the “rugged user,” the person who might be very afraid of dropping or damaging their precious ultraportable under careless or accidental circumstances. With what Samsung calls a more rugged and scratch-resistant lid design, a hard-drive free-fall sensor, and a water-tight spill-resistant keyboard, the focus of the NB30 [...]
Since the introduction of the first VAIO P last year, Sony has insisted that the VAIO P is not a netbook. No sir. It’s a “Lifestyle PC.” What’s a “Lifestyle PC,” you ask? I’m not sure but somehow the Sony VAIO P seems to fit perfectly. For starters, netbooks generally cost under $500, feature 10- [...]
MSI has teamed up with high-end speaker maestro Dynaudio to develop the GT660 gaming laptop, which promises premium sound in one of the lightest 16in laptops we’ve seen to date. We spent some time with the GT660 at a press conference in Amsterdam, hoping to understand what all the fuss is about. However, at 3.5kg, [...]
Have you made the switch from a desktop PC to a laptop? Several people have and although they may be easier to carry around and travel with, they still need to be cleaned, don’t they? Laptops aren’t as easy to open up and clean as desktops are, but it still can be done. To get [...]
With nearly everything from diapers in order to cereal boxes getting the “green” stamp, it makes sense that when you buy something as vital and pricey like a laptop that you will need to consider its environmental impact. However why is a laptop green beyond a firm just stating therefore as well as flaunting this [...]
While most notebooks sold today come with standard hard drives, an increasing number are available with solid state drives (SSDs). Standard, mechanical hard drives have moving parts that rotate a metal head over a magnetic surface. SSDs, on the other hand, store data on non-volatile NAND flash memory chips. Because they have no moving parts, [...]
