Ever since the MacBook Air was pulled out of a manila envelope, other laptop manufacturers have attempted to dethrone it as the world’s thinnest laptop. Dell’s first effort, the Dell Adamo, certainly invited comparisons to the MacBook Air, with its aluminum “Unibody” enclosure, thin profile, and non-removable battery. Unfortunately, its $2,000 price tag was deemed [...]
When we associate media playback and computers, netbooks don’t come to mind as the ideal merging of the two. On many netbooks, 720p videos play like slide shows, and you can forget about 1,080p. Even Flash-based media can stutter or look jerky, which is pretty serious, since Flash is one of the Web’s most pervasive [...]
Fujitsu’s LifeBook MH380 provides a few unique aspects to the netbook market including a standard 1366×768 resolution display panel and a new scroll wheel funtion. While these provide a different experience for users than the average netbook, performance and battery life are very average. The fact that it is larger and heavier doesn’t help in [...]
The Vaio Z Series has been re-introduced by Sony at CES 2010 to spearhead its laptop line-up. It is supposed to be the best Sony can offer. It blends raw power and ultra portability in a good looking shell that encompasses a carved aluminum core. In 2010, Sony updated the Z Series with Intel’s latest [...]
The new Macbook Pro line boasts some great new features like 7 hour battery life and a sleek, environmentally friendly unibody. This model has a fast 2.66GHz dual core processor and 4GB of RAM which is great for programs like Logic that use Memory for soft synths and samples. The Macbook is highly portable, stylish [...]
Toshiba’s Qosmio line has always been the company’s experimental playground for high-end systems, from massive gaming rigs to inventive multimedia home theater laptops. While there were a lot of interesting ideas there, you often ended up with slightly overpriced systems with out-of-date video cards or non-functioning Webcam hand gesture controls. With the new Qosmio X505-Q850, [...]
