laptops

Acer cancels the Aspire One 532g with Ion 2 processor

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Acer has canceled the Aspire One 532g netbook. It would have been the first to use second-generation Ion-based graphics from NVIDIA but the company has canceled it worldwide. There is no explanation given so far, but driver issues are incriminated. Optimus graphics switching has been used to flip to Intel or Ion graphics for either [...]

Toshiba’s first 3D notebook to ship in the USA

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Toshiba has recently updated its notebook product line and headlined the series with the company’s first North American 3D notebook – Satellite A665 3D Edition. The new model offers a 15.6-inch, 120HZ display, which is able to handle stereoscopic 3D, and also a GeForce GTS 350M, which gives 3D Vision support for games and online [...]

Toshiba’s first notebook sporting 3D Blu-ray

Published on: 9th June, 2010

Toshiba came in the PC field with its dynabook TX/98MBL. It is the first notebook of Toshiba with a 3D-capable screen, but also the first anywhere capable of playing Blu-ray movies. The 15.6-inch system has a 120Hz LCD, a GeForce GTS 350M graphics with support for 3D Vision. There is also a WinDVD BD special [...]

Sony’s Billabong VAIO W launched for Australians

Published on: 29th May, 2010

Sony Australia has presented the special edition Billabong VAIO W addressed to the Australian audience. The new notebook is the first product introduced in a cooperation that was set out in 2009. The notebook is patterned with waves of lime green, black, and blue. The pattern is inspired from the design of the short line [...]

Plastic MacBook updated with GeForce 320M and 10-hour battery

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Apple’s plastic MacBook has been updated for the first time after its redesign, as previous rumors said. The new model sports a faster 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor as its major change, the faster GeForce 320M integrated graphics that is inherited from the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 10-hour battery too. There is a single [...]

Athlon II Neo to equip Dell Inspiron M301z

Published on: 19th May, 2010

The Inspiron M301z is the new notebook PC Dell is currently shipping in Singapore. It is its first device to feature the dual-core Athlon II Neo from AMD. The standard M301z is a 13.3-inch notebook with a 1.3GHz processor and an option for a 1.5GHz Neo as well, and with 2GB up to 4GB of [...]

Dual-core Atom from Intel boosts netbook prices

Published on: 19th May, 2010

Plans to launch Intel’s next-generation dual-core Atom processors dedicated to netbooks during this summer is said, according to new information, to bring up notebook prices. Current netbooks based on Atom 1.6GHz N455 or 1.83GHz N475 are meant to cost from $250 to $350 in the near future. The new N550 with 1GB of DDR3 RAM [...]

ProBooks from Hewlett Packard, mobile Phenom II processors

Published on: 16th May, 2010

The business notebook line of Hewlett Packard has been revamped. The 14-inch 6455b and 15.6-inch 6555b ProBooks are among the first pro systems to get the new Phenom II processors from AMD. Three- and four-core options are added up to 2GHz and are considered to be 69 percent faster than earlier AMD-based business notebooks, which [...]

First AMD Phenom II-based notebooks from Hewlett Packard

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Hewlett Packard is the first PC builder to use the new mobile Phenom II processors from AMD in a notebook. The Pavilion dv5, dv6 and dv7 have the same option of using the dual-core and quad-core models of AMD’s new chips and this way overcome the performance and battery life problems with Intel chips. A [...]

Dell has a teaser page for quad-core Phenom II notebooks

Published on: 9th May, 2010

Dell has expanded its website with a new page meant to present the upcoming notebooks equipped with AMD’s quad-core Phenom II X4 processors. Thus, the new Inspiron M501R notebook is powered by AMD’s M880G chipset and has integrated Radeon HD4250 graphics. Users have the option of adding Radeon HD550v discrete graphics components with an amount [...]

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