Laptops

by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2009 · 0 comments

There aren’t many brands that attempt the premium quality notebook approach aside from Apple and many of the gaming laptop manufacturers, leave it to Dell to make a grand entrance.The Dell Adamo sports an extremely slim and aluminum chassis…

Read more Dell’s Adamo Laptop, Upscale Mobile Computing

by Rafael Hernandez on June 28, 2009 · 0 comments

Things tend to go from bad to worse when you keep your prime manufacturing partners out of the loop when it comes to defects you found in your product. So much so that you tend to lose business with…

Read more Apple to Avoid Nvidia for a Very Long Time?

by Pedro Hernandez on June 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Meet cRadia’s MiniFitXL, a stand that props up your laptop and cools it. Big deal, right? Well, it is a big deal because you can position the fan right under the part of your machine that gets toastiest. You…

Read more MiniFitXL – Targeted Laptop Cooling

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2009 · 0 comments

It seems like jumping into a purchase can foil you in ways you never thought possible. It appears that Apple’s new 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros have an issue where their SATA ports are limited to around about 1.5Gb/s…

Read more Some New Apple Mac Portables Suffer SATA Speed Degradation, SSD Users Saddened

by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Despite all of the recent issues Nvidia has gone through the company is forging ahead with their latest in mobile graphics chips by launching their new GeForce 200 GPU lineup.The new chips are all made with the 40nm manufacturing…

Read more Nvidia Announces Mobile GeForce 200 Series GPUs

by Pedro Hernandez on June 10, 2009 · 0 comments

iFixit has done it again. They have pealed the case off the new unibody 13.3-Inch Apple MacBook Pro and they found that it’s built very much like it’s smaller brother, the aluminum MacBook. Take a look at the teardown…

Read more iFixit Exposes New MacBook Pro's Innards

by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2009 · 0 comments

HP’s Pavilion dv2 had been well received as a gradual step up from a netbook yet not quite as powerful as a notebook sort of solution. Its 12.1″ screen size made it a comfortable sub-notebook but now the company…

Read more HP Brings in The Dual Core Athlon Neo, Intros Pavilion dv2z Notebook

by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Notebooks had been lagging desktops in storage capacit for quite a while barely storing as much data as the modern road warrior needs in order to get things done. That’s no longer the case as The Tech Report has a…

Read more 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive Roundup, the Tiny Get Bigger

by Rafael Hernandez on June 1, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD has announced their new ATI Radeon E4690 Discrete GPU. What does that mean for you? Well not all that much in the short term but you can be sure that notebook manufacturers will be all over this one.It…

Read more ATI Radeon E4690 Announced, Discrete Graphics Joy

by Rafael Hernandez on May 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Netbooks were supposed to be these tiny machines designed to fit in anywhere and offer up just enough performance for web browsing and lite office work, apparently computer manufacturers want to change the rules on all of us.Lenovo is putting…

Read more Lenovo Announces IdeaPad S12, Mini Notebook / Netbook Confusion

by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2009 · 0 comments

There’s a segment of the notebook market that slots in between the inexpensive integrated graphics toting models and the high-end game destroying monsters. The Asus F70 comfortably fits in with its Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and Nvidia GeForce…

Read more Asus F70 Laptop, A Budget Mobile Multimedia Wonder