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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just as any of the amazing computer laptops introduced by Gateway, it has once again offering another amazing 15.6’’ computer laptop into its NV series known as the Gateway NV59C09u at a price of $799 with an incredible features that would give you the experiences that you will never imagine with your computer laptop. The [...]
Sleek, sexy, and slim, the Sony VAIO X Series is the perfect netbook for the stylish, executive jet-setter. While this machine is smaller than most netbooks and measures just 0.55 inch thick, it packs a bit more gusto–and, starting at $1299 (our unit sells for $1499, as of 11/10/09), it carries an over-the-top price tag [...]
If you asked us in the past if we like HP’s netbooks, we’d tell you, “It depends.” We love the business-focused Mini 5102, for example, because of its great keyboard, sturdy design, and over 10 hours of endurance with its 6-cell battery. But the company’s consumer 10-inch netbooks haven’t measured up to the competition from [...]
