Product Reviews

January 6, 2009

Apple: MacBook Pro gets unibody design

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 12:37 pm

The new MacBook is 6.6 pounds, and very thin for a notebook of its size, says Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller. He says it has the best display they've ever shipped on a MacBook Pro. It's available in …

Original post by Crave staff

Toshiba releases new Qosmio X305-Q725

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 11:29 am

(Credit: Toshiba)

One of the many laptops being announced at CES that week is the Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q725. It will offer the same bells and whistles of recent X305s, except that its primary drive will consist of a 64GB solid state drive, while the secondary drive will be the standard … Originally posted at CES 2009

Hands-on: HyperSpace by Phoenix joins the instant-on fray

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 12:14 am

Does your laptop take too faraway to turn on? Linux-based instant-on operating systems have turned up on plenty of recent laptops, such as the Splashtop-powered Asus N10J, and now Phoenix is jumping into the action with its HyperSpace OS, as featured on a handful of new Lenovo laptops including the S10 Netbook. We got a chance to get a hands-on pre…

January 5, 2009

Not quite a Netbook: Meet the AMD Athlon Neo platform

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 11:00 pm

You and I may see the laptop market as completely oversaturated, but chipmaker AMD sees only opportunities and underserved markets. Hence the new Athlon Neo, which AMD calls a “platform for ultrathin notebooks.”

The company sees Netbooks as occupying the space amoung 7- and 11-inch displays with prices under $499, … Originally posted at CES 20…

Can the HP Pavilion dv3 take on the MacBook?

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 11:00 pm

The HP Pavilion dv3. We’ll come right and say it–we love 13-inch laptops. One point we’re fond of making is that in a world where we have 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and even 20-inch laptops, the 13-inch size is the biggest we’d consider carrying around on a regular basis, as well as the smallest we’d be able to use as a full-time wo…

First third-generation Netbook: HP Mini 2140

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 11:00 pm

After the initial 7-inch Celeron versions and the second wave of 9- and 10-inch Intel Atom-powered systems, we’re finally seeing the third wave of Netbook laptops–machines that take the basic concept of low-cost, low-power computing and start to add in useful extras and features largely lost from the until-now rather Spartan design philosophy of…

The HP Pavilion Dv2 debuts AMD’s new Ultrathin notebook platform

Filed under: Laptop Reviews — @ 11:00 pm

HP’s new Pavilion Dv2. The highlight of HP’s CES lineup is that new, thin, 12-inch AMD-powered model, called the Pavilion Dv2. At first glance, another glossy HP laptop with an AMD processor may induce yawns, but when we learned that was the first system to use AMD’s new Netbook-like Athlon Neo platform, our ears perked up.

Pitched as a kind of s…

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