Archive for June, 2012

Acer P643, P633, P653

Acer has released P6 series that includes three new notebooks P643, P633 and P653. Available in sizes from 13 to 15 inches, these Acer notebooks are build with business users in mind. All have housing made from magnesium alloy and have specially designed display hinges. P643 has 14 inch display; Acer P653 has 15 inch [...]

Asus A73E AS31

Asus often comes out with super bargain notebooks like Asus X54C-BBK13, a 15.6 inch notebook that retails for 309 dollars. In a similar fashion, the company is now offering a 17.3 inch notebook, Asus A73E AS31, a notebook for everyday use. It packs 1600 x 900 pixel resolution, which may not be able full HD [...]

Acer B113

Acer has introduced a thin notebook called Travelmate B113 powered by Intel Pentium 877 1.4GHz processor. It is very similar to the ultrabooks out there, but it is not a ‘proper’ ultrabook. There is no SSD in it and this laptop is also bit heavier. However, it is much cheaper too, with prices starting at [...]

Lenovo X131e

Lenovo has unveiled a minor update to its smallest and cheapest Thinkpad notebook. The company is calling it the successor of the ThinkPad X130e that was released earlier this year that featured AMD Brazos 1.0 processors (AMD E450, E350). The X131e changes things a bit by offering AMD Brazos 2.0 processors (AMD E1 1200 and [...]

Apple Macbook Air 2012 Geekbench

Last year, Apple released Macbook Air with Sandy bridge processors and last week, it updated those models with Ivy Bridge CPUs. In this post, will be comparing the geekbench, the ultimate Mac benchmark tool for the Mac computers. Apple introduced two new models – MD231LL/A and MD232LL/A. The MD231LL/A is the low end model, while [...]

Core i5 3210M review

The Intel Core i5 3210M is a dual core processor that is based on the Ivy Bridge architecture. It has full hyper threading support and can handle up to 8 threads at the same time. The 3210M CPU runs at 2.5GHz clock speed and can automatically overclock to 3.1GHz under turbo mode. The processor has [...]

Acer AS5250 0895

Acer Aspire AS5250 0895 is a 15.6 inch budget notebook that retails for under 350 dollars at popular online and local stores. The notebook packs the dual core AMD C50 processor that is quite possibly the slowest to be used in the a full featured notebook like this one. It has similar specs like the [...]

Lenovo Y580

Lenovo Ideapad Y580 is the newest notebook from Chinese electronic giant to sport he latest Core i7 processor and that too at a very reasonable price tag of 1300 dollars. This will get you a quad core i7 3610QM processor (see Core i7 3610qm review to find more about it) that runs at 2.3GHz clock [...]

Ultra thin notebooks

AMD announced its new E-series accelerated processing units at the Computex 2012, which were called Brazos 2.0. The company said that those were designed for budget notebooks and desktops. The two new processors have been named AMD E1 1200 and E2 1800 respectively. At the press event at computex 2012, AMD’s senior vice president Lisa [...]

Notebook care guide

Notebook computers have become an integral part of our lives. In fact, some mini notebooks now cost less than cell phones. Notebooks are easier to carry than desktop and thus require special care. Notebook computes are not just for businessmen who want to work on the move. Because they are so easy to use, more [...]