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,…