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, [...]
At first blush, the Viliv N5 would seem the perfect device for those who feel that smart phones like the Droid X and tablets like the iPad don’t offer the full PC experience of running a desktop OS with all your favorite applications, but for whom netbooks are too cumbersome to tote around. This 5-inch, [...]
When it comes to the sheer performance you get for the price, few laptops we’ve seen offer as favorable a ratio as the Gateway NV7915u. It holds its own in terms of performance (until you consider gaming and graphics, anyway), and it stands alone in its size and price class. A 17-inch desktop replacement, this [...]
Who says travel has to be boring? HP aims to make it as entertaining as possible with the Pavilion dv5t, a notebook built as much for games, music, and movies as for everyday computing. To that end, HP stocks it with high-end, Centrino 2-powered hardware and media-friendly goodies such as a Blu-ray drive and a [...]
Improving: Help techs report that the the majority of troublesome notebook elements will be the hard drive, screen, and also keyboard. When you probably won’t desire to substitute an expensive laptop computer screen, you aren’t the right tools and even any slight physical inclination could change the hard drive, keyboard, along with other parts, by [...]
