I’m at Tsukuba College, so I took the Tsukuba Express to Akihabara shopping district in Tokyo to look around at laptops. I went to Yodobashi Camera, a large electronics store, as I thought that would be an excellent choice to find a laptop…

Style certainly isn’t the number one feature to look for in a laptop, after all the main purpose of a notebook computer is to help you get work done, but when you can combine great style with excellent functionality in a highly mobile pack…

The Dell e1405 is a portable media laptop that Dell has recently released to replace the XPS M140. The E1405 has excellent battery life, a slew of multimedia functions that can make a grown man cry and the best laptop processors currently …

The touchpad is a different story. I miss using a pointing stick that you get on the ThinkPad series, but can handle a touchpad if it is a good implementation. The V100 touchpad is not a good implementation. The mouse buttons are some of t…

The team at NotebookReview.com just finished our in-depth look at the latest generation of AMD’s “Accelerated Processing Unit” (APU) technology. Code named “Trinity” this complex processor combines a central processing unit (CPU) and a gra…

I am also somewhat disappointed by the lack of digital S/PDIF audio out, as several ASUS and other laptops with similar specs posses them.The 1.66GHz Core Duo is quite a processor, the laptop boots noticeably faster then my Pentium 4 machi…

It was the first of Apple’s notebooks to be designed using the now-famous unibody engineering technique, which essentially carves the computer’s case from a single block of cast aluminum. The CPU was a Core 2 Duo designed to take up only 4…

The rear and bottom of the machine are largely featureless as well, with the latter hosting four plastic bumpers to lift the machine off of its worksurface. There are also a number of five-lobed Torx screws on the bottom for those so bold …

Power consumption improved over the previous A305, but since Toshiba decreased the capacity of the battery it is hard to notice any gains. The old model with the 9-cell battery managed 2 hours and 50 minutes of runtime. The A355 with its 6…

Build quality is hit or miss depending on what part of the notebook you are looking at. The quality of the finish is excellent, with a thick layer of glossy black paint that appears to be scratch resistant. On the flip side, the plastic us…

Thermal performance of the Toshiba A305 was above average, with mild fan noise at low and high speeds, and the notebook staying relativity cool during game play. One area that did get kind of warm that is worth mentioning is the touchpad, …

Toshiba includes an ALPS touchpad on the A605, which is quite large for a 12” notebook. It is quick and responsive, with very little lag noticed during our tests. Fingertip sensitivity is much better than older ALPS touchpads we have seen,…

The newly redesigned Inspiron 15R offers a much cleaner and sleeker look and feel compared to past models. Similar to the Adamo-series, the layout has a hinge-forward design with the screen positioned just slightly in front of the back edg…

For a laptop however, I found the performance to be acceptable and look forward to being able to playing WoW when I am away from my desk.Half-Life 2 was the surprise. It performed very well, with none of the hiccupping I noticed in WoW. I …

The included Intel PRO 3945 Wireless 802.11a/b/g card works as expected and gets strong reception even through multiple walls. As mentioned before, Bluetooth is NOT included although there is an infrared port. Battery life is good, I used …

The Eee PC isn’t designed for HD video encoding or playing Crysis, but it is designed to be a mobile companion that’s perfect for web browsing, working in Microsoft Office, or some light gaming while on the road.For our standard performanc…

While many companies have environmental sustainability programs and pledges these days – it’s finally cool to be green – Lexmark has taken their environmental pledge to the next level by including their employees and community in an effort…

If you’re one of the many consumers around the globe looking for a multimedia family PC with a 15-inch screen, then the updated Dell Studio 15 (1555) probably has all the features you’re looking for in a new laptop. Now with more than 200 …

wPrime is a program that forces the processor to do recursive mathematical calculations, the advantage of this program is that it is multi-threaded and can use both processor cores at once, thereby giving more accurate benchmarking measure…

The speakers on the E205 are of the lap-firing variety that are generally ok if you only plan on listening to streaming audio or video but leave a lot to be desired if you want to enjoy a movie. Since they are downward firing another probl…

The NP900X4C is noticeably heavier than its smaller brother. The increase in weight is more than proportional to the increase in size and most likely reflects the need to strengthen the structure to maintain the same rigidity for the incre…

Samsung and Dell sought to introduce us to a new SSD which would successfully tackle three barriers in the SSD industry; performance limitations, capacity and pricing. At the end of the day, although we would like to see prices drop signif…

These benchmarks will put the spotlight on the Nvidia GeForce 9600M-GT 512MB graphics card. The 9600M-GT is between 15 and 20 percent faster than the popular 8600M-GT; while both cards have the same number of processor cores (32), the 9600…

The HP Pavilion Touchsmart 11 features a silver plastic lid complete with a chrome HP logo positioned in the center. The glossy reflective finish is resistant to fingerprint smudges and provides an appealing sheen when it catches the light…

HP’s Mini Mi has been an eye-opener for me. This isn’t because the Mini Mi is a perfect product, clearly it’s not. The lesson I am taking away from this review is how friendly/easy/awesome Linux and specifically Ubuntu can be when a PC mak…

There is a number pad on the right side that should please accounting types. One note about having the number pad squeezed in is that it means the alphanumeric keys are not centered to the display, but rather they are shifted to the left r…