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New HP Mini 5101
Now that netbooks have crashed the mobile computing party, every major computer company (and a host of wannabe major computer companies) have come out with their own versions of the netbook. The latest addition to the party is the HP Mini 5101 Netbook, one which HP hopes will appeal to the business community. It’s being called, by HP’s Senior VP Ted Clark, “a work of art,” and something that is designed for the “trend-savvy mobile professional who needs functionally, durability and style.” Since any business professional would like being stroked as a “trend-savvy mobile professional,” the marketing segment is clear, though students are a second-tier option of potential customers.
So far, netbooks are not a business professional’s choice tool. Whether for lackluster style, low-class price, or diminished power, most executives are not toting netbooks…yet. With the introduction of HP’s Mini 5101, the tune may change.
It seems HP had two goals in mind when creating the netbook: 1) beauty, and 2) power. At least that’s where this netbook seems to shine. Rather than a mobile accessory to a traditional notebook or desktop, this machine can essentially replace both of them due to its muscle-stuffed innards. At the same time, the handsome design of the 5101 earns it a few second glances.
From a spec perspective, the Mini 5101 lacks little. At its heart is the somewhat-standard Intel Atom N280 and Mobile 945GSE. Beyond that, it speeds past most other netbooks. The screaming-fast 7200 RPM hard drive, coupled with a 2GB DDR2 SDRAM make for catch-free computing by anyone’s standard. And, if storage is a concern, you can get it loaded with a (max) 320 GB hard drive.
Fun stuff like a 2 MP webcam, Bluetooth, new trackpad configuration, spacious keyboard, a shocking 8-hour battery option, spillproof keyboard, 3 USB ports, and 10.1-inc display all join forces in recommending this as a full-powered computer in the body of a netbook.
And it’s the body of this netbook that gives it that final touch of appeal for high-end users. Like the MacBook Pro’s popular aluminum unibody, HP also utilizes the brushed aluminum look, in a sophisticated black hue, as the device’s main tone. The magnesium touches add a helpful flourish. A touchy-feely tracking device makes it enjoyable to keep one’s hands on the keyboard. Although a bit boxy, the overall design is suitable eye candy.
The price will appeal to the high-end netbook user, too. While the average netbook price slides (thank you, crummy economy) this one appeals to a different breed. So, hopefully, the $450 base package won’t be a deterrent for them. $450 is just a start, though. Any of the add-ons pile on additional cash, meaning that a fully juiced up Mini 5101 could fetch north of $1,000. But you may soon see this netbook on the lap of an executive sitting in first class.
HP Mini 1000 Mi series
I’m sure you’ve seen the commercial sometime in the past week. It’s rather annoying; there’s a guy on a bench using his HP Mini. A girl then approaches him, and begins asking him about the netbook. He finishes all of her sentences, and well it’s pretty much annoying from beginning to end. A tip to HP, don’t make a commercial based on someone finishing someone’s sentences, not really that endearing. Luckily, there’s a pretty solid product behind the advertisement.
Specs
Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor N270 (1.60GHz)
Memory: 512MB DDR2 System Memory (1 Dimm), upgradeable to 2GB
Hard Drive: 8 GB, upgradeable to 80 GB
Video Card: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Wireless-G card
Integrated webcam & microphone
The Good - It is definitely a netbook, and the abilities the system has with the size it is — is quite remarkable. Along with the system capabilities, the keyboard is sized perfect. For those who use Linux and know of its greatness, this netbook utilizes it really well.
The Bad - Linux might be great for some, for others it might be a deterrent. To receive the best experience, you’ll want the 10.1″ size screen. Any size less and it becomes too small. Also, with the Linux version of the netbook, there is some compatibility issues with the integrated options (webcam, mic). Speaking of those features, they are all laid out very weird. This is probably due to the lack of space, but it’s still a noticeable flaw.
Bottom Line - If you’re looking for a solid netbook with some cool features, at a good price, you can’t go very wrong with the Mini. Just make sure that you like Linux, or don’t mind learning some of the ins-and-outs of the OS.
Nettop? Lapbook? What is This Thing?
It’s a bit hard to figure out these days where laptop ends and netbook begins—or vice versa. As “netbook” displays grow, and “laptop” sizes shrink, many are trying to figure out how to class these new devices.
Acer is leading significant forays into the netbook market. Their popularity is due to their innovation and low pricing. In a matter of weeks, Acer will unveil the new Aspire One—a netbook with a new sizing of 11.6 inches. It features a full size keyboard, a thinner body, an Intel processor, 1 gig of memory, 160 gigs of hard drive storage, and all of this at the netbook-sounding price of $560. The new model barks like a laptop but looks like a netbook, and it costs like one, too.
Meanwhile, Eee PC is readying the drum roll for a big-screen version of their netbook. Whereas Asustek Computer was noteworthy for the 7-inch variety of the Eee PC, they will unveil in late May a new product at a whopping 11.6 inches, big enough to compete with the big Aspire One. Asustek Computer enjoys strong sales from the 10” Eee PC, and hopes that the new larger-screened cousin will give sales an extra boost.
Apart from the quandary over whether to call them nettops, lapbooks, or none of the above, a new curiosity forms over how they will affect traditional laptop sales. In a unique turn of events, netbook prices stay relatively unchanged even though netbook power ramps up. How will the change affect laptop pricing or laptop purchasing?
The situation becomes even more interesting, for as the netbooks get bigger, laptops get sleeker. With extra-powerful, super-cool, and amazingly-tiny processors, laptops are losing weight—trying to keep up with the Macbook air, as it were. Somewhere in the middle, a powerful netbook and an ultra-thin laptop will meet, and hopefully by then, we’ll know what to call it.
iBUYPOWER Gamer Supreme 985i Intel Core i7 940
Specs
Processor - Intel Core i7 940
System Memory - 6GB DDR3
Maximum Memory Supported - 16 GB
Hard Drive - 1 TB
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1GB Video Card
The Good - Crysis, what? If you’re the kind of person who wants top of the line hardware but doesn’t want to put it together yourself, this is your machine. You’ll be able to run anything on the market right now app wise, and probably have enough power left over to run something else. No manufacture software to uninstall. Wonderful keyboard and mouse combo. The maximum 16 GB memory expansion ensures you have a good investment for the future.
The Bad - Putting together the components this system requires means you’re going to have a big box. I don’t like the design either, it’s rugged instead of smooth. Something as powerful as this should look beautiful.
The Bottom Line - If you don’t care about looks, or a big box you really can’t go wrong with this system. Just be sure you don’t look at the price tag too closely. What’s good about it is that you’ll end up going a long while before you have to invest in another desktop again. The expandable components insure a healthy long term investment
ASUS F6 Series F6VE-X1 NoteBook Review
Specs:
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4G
Display Resolution - 1280 x 800
Screen Size - 13.3″
System Memory - 4GB DDR2
Hard Drive Size - 320GB
Video Card - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512 MB
Price - $1,199.99 (Most retail stores)
The Good - Wonderful specs for a notebook. It supports many features: Bluetooth, wireless n. The notebook stays cool even when benchmarked for a while. No software bundle to have to sift through and uninstall. Has a good size, and weight if you’re going to be transporting it a lot.
The Bad - Has a flexible based keyboard, so if you like more stiff boards you might be wary. Has a detergent like smell to it, so if you like those kind of smells it might be a plus. I prefer my laptops not smell like anything though. Has a glossy type case, and is known to show off fingerprints well.
The Bottom Line - This laptop has a tremendous upside that really leave the negatives in the dust. If you’re looking for a well spec’d machine, that isn’t a behemoth to transport this is a system you should look at. Just make sure you know it’s going to smell a bit funky, and watch for those fingerprints.
Asus G50VT-X5 Review
Specs:
Processor - 2.13GHz
Display Size - 1366 x 768
Screen Size - 15.6″
System Memory - 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive Size - 320GB
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 512 MB GDDR3
Price - $899.99 (Most retail stores)
The Good: If you’re into a bright, flashy case then the G50VT-X5 has got it in spades. For its power, the G50VT-X5 is cheap compared to other notebooks. Alert displays are neat, and provide a more streamlined experience. Espeically if you IM, and Email a lot. HDMI connections. Has eSATA, and mini FireWire connections. Has mini subwoofer built-in providing some amazing sound.
The Bad: No Bluetooth connection. Very heavy, and might not be worth it if you’re taking it to class, or on the go alot. While the flashy case might appeal to some, it will detract others.
The Bottom Line: If you’re wanting power for gaming, but don’t want a desktop then the G50VT-X5 is a good option. If you’re looking for a notebook that’s easy to carry around, and access then you might want to look elsewhere.
Top features people are expecting in 2009 laptops
The attention of Buyers are getting towards Laptop’s which are portable rather than Desktop PC’S. The sale of Laptops are growing year-by-year and the growth is very high from 2008.
The users are looking for high performance notebooks and high end features. So, keeping this the companies are experimenting on new trend laptops.
Some of the features that the latest laptops are expected with are:-
- Long Lasting Battery Life:
- Energy Efficient Hardware:
- Processor Clock Speed:
- Latest Hardware:
- Slim, Sexy and weight less
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This is the most important thing a user is looking for and i hope in future the manufacturers are looking for Batteries which can deliver power most of the time. Because competition is becoming more in this present situation companies want to gain attention to their products. Still hope this year many companies will fit their notebooks with the advanced batteries.
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Modern day laptops are having most powerful processors with high frequency and hardware which consumes lot of power. The Users look of laptops which are more energy efficient but maintaining their expected performance.The companies are asking Hardware vendors like Intel and AMD to produce energy efficient hardware.So, if you want to buy a notebook see whether the laptop is energy efficient or not.
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The processing speed will increase in coming Notebooks because gamers and business persons are looking for high processing speeds. At present day the fastest processor using today for Notebooks is 2.8Ghz from Intel which is Core2 Duo Processor. But Intel has released its new Intel® Coreâ„¢ i7-965 Extreme Edition which runs at 3.2GHZ clock speed but most of the companies are not offering it today. In the future the companies are looking to fit their Laptop’s will high speed processors. So, this is what Gamers as well as normal people are looking for.
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USB3.0 is the latest version and has the highest speed compared to USB2.0 . It is announce in August 2008 but didn’t fit it to any laptops till now. But it is expected to be released in the latest version of laptops in 2009 or 2010.
High end Graphics is what most people wanted in their laptops. Most of the Games want high end graphics so gamers are looking for graphics card which supports higher graphics. The future games will need larger graphics support. So, people go for high end graphics.
Whether Girls or Boys they want their laptop to be slim and sexy. In 2008 Apple released small slim and sexy laptop “Apple Mac Book air”. It has gained huge popularity although it has less processor speed.People are also looking for weight less laptops and many companies are reducing the weight of their laptops. In future we can expect more.
These are all what i know the companies introduce with their new laptops.If you know more then comment on this article so that i can update this article.
Review on fujitsu siemens Li2727 notebook
These will be a review for Siemens Amilo’s Li2727, a Fujitsu laptop. Many excellent things are seen in this laptop, great features on this though that I will admit when it is being used should be more improve and/or needed upgrades so it makes a better performance as well as lesser annoying at any rate.
An annoying fact to be mentioned is that when being used, the laptop’s fan is very noisy. Although its not very loud noise, it comes up on random times as it may seem to be as you used this laptop, it does not even runs on such demanding program, this will be something that gets me annoyed about the laptop.
As a home laptop, this is good though in terms of designs and the things it needs to be in use when required. Somehow it has few problems when you want it used as convenient laptop when taking on travels. There’s a main bug on this type of laptop which is poor on battery lifespan. You’ll be really lucky when it last for one hour that is really horrifying, it will defiantly let me buy another one.
The weight is at least 2.7 kilograms, it is not very bad, as far as you’ll need in using it in the place it will need to be plug-in, to transport it will be another problem.
A benefit on the laptop is to have a quick running capacity. Due to its massive 2 gigabyte, this is a reason as to why it is running fast. Like the Intel Pentium processor, which has been one new processors that makes the laptop running very fast.
This laptop does not disappoint, having its space for hard drive as well as the 120 gigabyte will be very sufficient to most people for storing their data’s already.
One thing more advantageous of the laptop will be the fantastic multitasking drives DVD. It means you’ll be watching movies, burn movie too by the use of this laptop, with the dual layer drives. Due to the fact of being a dual layered DVD, it means you’ll actually pack-up the standard DVD disks of until 8.5 gigabyte of photo, data, video and a lot more.
Technical Specifications and features
Positive Features:
+ This laptop weighs 2.7 KG and
+ The Cpu is Intel Pentium Duel core 1.76 GHZ processor with 1Mb L2 cache with
533 MHZ frontside bus.
+ It comes with 250 GB HDD runs at 533MHz and the 5400rpm. The Hard drive is fast and quite.
+ Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280×800 pixels.
+ Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100.
Negative Features:
This Notebook won’t have the following features
- Webcam
- card reader
- Firewire
- ExpressCard
- fingerprint reader and
- other fancy stuff
The cost of this laptop is 600 euro’s.
The new “Apple MacBook Air” Notebook with an innovative design
Having a thin and very light thirteen inches screen as well as a pad, this is multi touch. In my view Macbook Air best suites for girls who want every thing to be slim.
the macbook air is the slim notebook
The largest compromised status that has been well-supported, due to their connectivity setups, with having only one room to the single port of USB and it does not include that of built in optical drives, mobile broad band, Fire Wire and the Ethernet. Just like the other type of laptop, the Apple Macbook Air refused an outfit of having media card and or expansion slot. Compensating the connectivity sparse is a really useful feature that includes the touchpad’s gestures control and its ability in a wireless borrow of other system optical drives.
Some of the very noteworthy feature of Apple Macbook Air is its remote function discs. Due to its lack of optical drives, you’ll rather see it remotely on optical drive in another system, Mac or PC, for as long they are in a similar network. Their offering displays similarly, like a 1280 by 800 pixels native resolution on a standard 13 inches Apple Mac Book air, however the backlit of Air LED screen implies that the lid, being thin having a picture of somewhat bright, having that two system set-up into maximum brightness.
Apple Macbook’s Air biggest drawback is in its inability to replace a battery. Some laptops can be outdated even before the wearing out of its battery; owners are somehow sensitive in replacing a battery, carrying with them the excess battery, for an extended usage.
Features of MacBook Air:-
It comes with 120GB hard drive or choose solid-state drive which has no moving parts for enhanced durability
The performance of the Battery is very good. You can run this Notebook for 4.5 hours continuously Accessing web with out power cord plugged.
The Smartly integrated iSight Camera and iChat software makes video chatting easy.
The Macbook Processor size is less compared to normal Core 2 Duo processor available in Notebook’s available today but will deliver better performance with its 1.6/1.86 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 1066 Frontside bus and additional L2 cache (6MB in total).It has got 2Gb DDR3 Ram.
Here is the comparison of MacBook Air processor with normal Intel Core 2 Duo Processor:
Dell version XPS M 1530 the top selling product
A laptop of Dell version XPS M 1530 has been top selling product this time, having an excellent reason. Their specifications on the laptop were something it deserves to be on top. What then are their pros then cons in this type of laptop?
Having talked about this days of Dell laptop of such cool information’s there’s really interesting about it that I myself is intrigue buying it, for an unbiased details with good as well as bad.
Firstly, let me tell you of their main features like that of Intel’s Core two duo t830 dual cores Mobile-phone processor, 2.2 gigahertz, a 4GB memory, the 320 gigabytes drive, and the nine celled battery. When you’re just starting in the world of laptop, the 320 gigabyte storage ability is common for storing the info’s as well as application. The 320 gigabyte will be very huge storing space.
Using a laptop, you’ll be charging every other hour or more, it really consumes electricity, its battery life lasts for only for 4-hour easily even if it’s fully charged. There’s even a laptop with last for only an hour.
There are some laptops that are not able to keep running every application, having this version; it will not be a problem. When you love to watch a DVD, you’ll have that striking graphics as well as displays when you use their resolutions of 1440 by 900 instead of their normal panel. There’s only a thing that needs pointing out which is their resolution is causing such slight brightness in a screen if used outside.
You will not be needing webcam, this type of laptop has its built inside webcam, it’s really prepared to use. In an instant you’ll see this laptop to be strikingly superb. When you buy these versions of Dell, you’ll unlikely have no regrets.
Technical Specifications
- 1.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5450(Default)
- 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T7250
- 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
- 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T7700
- Dell Wireless 1490 802.11a/g Mini Card
- Intel 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card
- Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card(Default)
- 120GB 7200RPM
- 160GB 5400RPM
- 160GB 7200RPM(Default)
- 200GB 7200RPM
- 250GB 5400RPM
- 64GB SSD
- 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS(Default)
- 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
- 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 2 DIMMs
- 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 2 DIMMs
- 3GB DDR2 SDRAM, 2 DIMMs
- 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, 2 DIMMs
- Optional Bluetooth
- Optional External Mini USB Modem
- Optional Mobile Broadband EV-DO