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 [...]
The new C1 Convertible Tablet PC from Panasonic seams to address especially to medical field, but not only. When projected it, Panasonic considered the case in which you have to carry your tablet PC all day long, so he made it really lightweight – 3.2 lbs (with one battery)/ 3.7 lbs (with two batteries). An [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
On the surface Acer’s 10.1-inch Aspire One 521 and 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 appear to be fairly run-of-the-mill netbooks — or ultraportables for those that are morally opposed to calling a laptop with a 11.6-inch display a netbook. They’re rather small machines, measure just about an inch thick, and ring up at under $430. But [...]
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, [...]
