HP Pavilion dv6-1210sa – 15.6in Laptop Review

Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 and Y560

Lenovo haven’t forgotten about their mainstream home users, the company has unveiled two new models, the Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 and Y560 notebooks, complete with various options from Intel’s latest Core i3, i5 and i7 processors.  The IdeaPad Y460 has a 14-inch 1366 x 768 display, Core i3 or i5 CPU, ATI Radeon HD5740/HD5650 graphics and up to [...]

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Review

In our Lenovo ThinkPad Edge review we felt that the new ThinkPad style was too conservative to truly be edgy, but too dressed-up to feel like a real ThinkPad. Introduction After over a decade of filling the same matte black boxes with fresh hardware, Lenovo has finally bowed to the design gods and attempted to put a little bit of an [...]

ASUS UL50Vt Preview: Factory Overclocked CULV Delivers 7 Hours of Battery Life

Wow, what’s with all the CULV hate? I’ve never seen a quietly introduced, low volume, mobile Intel CPU get so much negative press before. CULV stands for Consumer Ultra Low Voltage. It’s a badge affixed to certain mobile Core 2 Duos that run at lower clocks and lower voltages than standard mobile Core 2 Duos. Just as some CPUs can [...]

Update : Nokia Booklet 3G Specifications

For as popular as Nokia has been worldwide, it is just not a brand that Americans particularly care about. Even though it has consistently been the most prolific shipper of mobile devices worldwide, Nokia has only an 8% market share in the United States according to IDC, and even that is slipping. So when Nokia unveiled its first netbook -- [...]

Acer Aspire One 751h Review

Introduction Finding ways to differentiate your product in the notebook market can be difficult. Most companies are currently going with the Intel Atom N270/N280 CPU combined with the 945GSE chipset. The result is that performance is nearly identical between similarly equipped netbooks, although as we saw with the ASUS 1005HA and the GIGABYTE [...]