Posts from 'Laptops, tablets and PCs' category

The series of 10.1” Toshiba netbooks has just received its 5th member, the most powerful of them all. With the NB550D the Japanese producer confirms its intention of being a great choice for users who want extremely high tech portable devices. The review below will help you figure out if the new Toshiba device is really worth your money.NB550D also represents a new direction for Toshiba, sine it is the first netbook that runs on an AMD plat...

One of the best ultraportables launched in the past year was the ASUS U36JC, a very thin and light 13.3 inch laptop with the first gen Core i5 processor. That model had its share of problems including bad screen, overheating and an over $1000 price that coupled with the late arrival (beginning of 2011) made it anything else but a bestseller.Anyway, we’re over the first half of 2011 and the update called ASUS U36SD (U36S in Europe) has arriv...

In opposition to the laptop niche market, when it comes to the netbook niche there are not too many hardware options. This is why it often happens that new models do not impress if they do not have new platforms.The good side of this is that producers need to concentrate on delivering a high quality smartly designed and built device with good quality of materials. In the following article we will offer you a review of the new Asus Eee PC 1015...

Technology intersects more and more with most domains of peoples’ life. It has constantly evolved for the last 15 years. Gadgets tend to become smaller and smaller (more portable), to be able to do more things faster, and are becoming more accessible.In this article I will highlight a few general facts about portable computers. Soon I will write more specific articles about netbooks, laptops, tablets, smartphones, for a clear image for thos...

At the beginning of this year at the Mobile World Congress Acer presented a few tablets with touchscreens called as follows: Iconia Tab W500, A100 and A500.We presented you the first two models, so now we will present the 3rd one, Acer Iconia Tab A500. Firstly it is important to state that this tablet will be sold exclusively in the United States.Secondly, let us start with the technical specs of Acer Iconia Tab A500:10.1” capaciti...

One of the best ultraportable laptops available today is the Sony Vaio Z, which just received a new upgrade that adds the new Intel Sandy Bridge processing platform and an interesting new Power Media Dock that contains additional ports, an optical unit and an external Radeon GPU.It's the most innovative way to implement dual graphic cards: one integrated into the thing and light chassis of the Vaio Z and one external accessible via the dock w...

If you're a gamer you already know the "Republic of Gamers" series of products from ASUS. The latest to the series is the monster desktop replacement ASUS G74SX 3D, a 17.3 inch laptop with 3D technology onboard. There will be many versions of the ASUS G74 laptop but I think I've got one of the best ones featuring a quad core CPU, dual hard drives, a Blu ray unit, 16 GB RAM and an Nvidia GTX 560M with 3GB of video RAM.As you can see this is qu...

The Iconia brand launched by Acer at the end of 2010 has become richer permanently at the beginning of this year through a series of tablets or laptops with 2 touch surfaces.In the last article we presented the Iconia Tab W500, a tablet with an attached keyboard that runs on Windows 7. This time we will tell you about the Iconia Tab A10, a more conventional tablet (if there is such a thing as a conventional tablet).Here are the main chara...

Once Asus announced the Eee PC series, all the other producers lost no time and launched their own netbook versions. This is how Acer became well known for the Aspire One model, Lenovo for the IdeaPad, Dell fir the Inspiron Mini, while Sony (Vaio), HP (Mini), Toshiba and Samsung came on to the market a bit later. Although it is not the most famous portable device creator MSI managed to launch a series of extremely attractive notebooks. In a recen...

Huawei is a Chinese company which is less well known in Europe and the US in the domain of electronic gadgets, especially because it starting building such gadgets only from the last year. One of the gadgets was the S7 tablet which has recently received a successor in February at the Mobile World Congress: the S7 Slim.Even if we are talking about a 100% Made in China product we should not forget that most electronic gadgets are made in China,...