The Toshiba Satellite M645 is a new 14 inch laptop that promises a lot in terms of both style and performance. While certainly not the cheapest notebook in its class, does the Satellite M645 have what it takes to stand out from other mid-range laptops currently on the market? At first glance the Toshiba Satellite [...]
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, [...]
HP’s Mini 311 is their first netbook to use a larger 11.6-inch display and the new NVIDIA ION platform. This has given the Mini 311 some significant performance improvements over the current netbook technology especially for 3D graphics and HD video streaming. It is now able to handle these without issue unlike other Atom based [...]
Standing out from the crowd of netbooks is not so easy, but Samsung’s tweaks to its N150 netbook caught our attention. The N150 Plus packs in a larger hard drive (250GB versus 160GB), a utility for waking the machine up faster and using less power in sleep mode, and a fresh, attractive appearance. The Samsung [...]
The world of cheap, ubiquitous, and nearly identical Netbooks has been a stable and predictable landscape for a while now, and hasn’t gotten any less predictable with the launch of Intel’s next generation of Atom processors. Whereas Netbooks used to run Windows XP, have N270 processors, and 1GB RAM/160GB hard drive as standards, now Netbooks [...]
After much buzz, the first major update to Nvidia’s Ion graphics chipset is finally here. Nvidia calls it, prosaically, “Next-Generation Ion” (we’ll term it “Ion 2″ for short), and we got to test-drive it inside an Asus Eee PC 1201pn, a 12.1-inch netbook built around an Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) CPU. The Ion 2 [...]
