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Notebook PC

GScreen Spacebook 17: Dual 17.3-inch Notebook

February 12, 2010

If you absolutely must have dual 17.3-inch displays on your notebook, the Spacebook from GScreen is it. It looks thick, mighty ugly, but it is capable: 2.66GHz Core i7-620M CPU, 4GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M GPU with 1GB, Windows 7 Pro. You will certainly be paying for all those pixels: US$2895 in May [...]

Notebooks: Frameless Displays

February 10, 2010

Thick bezels are ugly. I think Taiwan-based integrators and LCD manufacturers agree. Taiwan’s major notebook PC ODMs are developing models sporting frameless displays or displays with very thin bezels. The companies in particular are Foxconn and Chimei Innolux, Compal Electronics and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Quanta Computer and AU Optronics (AUO). Corning’s Gorilla glass will [...]

ASUS G73JH-X1

February 9, 2010

I’ve written about the G73JH-X1 from ASUS (read ASUS ROG G73jh):
Non-purposeful angles just for the sake of angles? Nah. Unfortunately the ROG G78jh has a lot of angles just for the sake of having angles.
The design isn’t my cup of tea but the G73JH-X1 certainly is a powerful gaming notebook. The G73JH-X1 is now available [...]

2010 MacBook Pro: IPS, Core i7

February 7, 2010

Geekbench (via MacRumors) reported benchmark performance numbers for what seems to be an unreleased MacBook Pro running a 2.66GHz Core i7-620M (dual-core) CPU, which sport Turbo Boost and Hyperthreading. The final Geekbench score of 5260 is quite a bit higher than a current MacBook Pro running at 2.66GHz with scores in the range of 3700 – [...]

HP G62t: Core i3 15.6-inch Notebook PC

February 4, 2010

The G62t from HP is a 15.6-inch notebook PC powered by a Core i3 CPU upgradeable to an i5 or i7. The 15.6-inch TFT LCD features a pixel format of 1366 x 768 with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Other specs include: 3GB RAM, 160GB HDD, DVD burner (upgradeable to Blu-ray), Intel integrated graphics. The price [...]

Alienware M11x

February 1, 2010

If you look at the M11x you’d think Alienware was no longer a gaming brand. The M11x looks like a notebook designed with gamers in mind, but in its base configuration the M11x is simply not a serious gaming notebook. Here are the important specs:

11.6-inch 1366 x 768 LED-backlit LCD
1.3GHz Pentium SU4100
2GB Dual Channel 800MHz [...]

Dell Adamo Admire: $999

January 28, 2010

Dell’s Adamo Admire is a very sexy machine. The specs: 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo, Windows 7 Home 64-bit, 2GB 800MHz DDR3 Dual-Channel RAM, 128GB SSD. And the price of just $999 is, well, quite tempting. Source: Dell via Engadget

MacBook Pro with Intel Core i5

January 14, 2010

Most likely a Core i5-powered MacBook Pro will soon be introduced. An Intel Retail Edge Program contest flier “accidentally” showed the prize as a MacBook Pro powered by an Intel Core i5. Intel corrected it and now the prize is an Envy 15. Source: Engadget

CES 2010: Samsung 14-inch Transparent OLED Notebook PC

January 9, 2010

THE FUTURE IS HERE: There are two very cool things going on here. First, the transparency of the display: reminds me of the transparent displays used in the movie Avatar, The Matrix and The Minority Report. The second is the fact that this isn’t an ordinary transparent display; it is an OLED display that is [...]

CES 2010: Sony VAIO Z

January 9, 2010

Highlights of the video:

Back-lit Keyboard
SSD
Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System
13.1-inch 16:9 Wide HD Display
Carbon Fiber / Aluminum Chasis
3G Mobile Broadband

The back-lit keyboard and SSD are probably standard features found in higher-end notebook PCs. 3G mobile broadband is thankfully via Verizon Wireless, which means you will not have to worry about whether you will be able to connect [...]


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