Gateway is certainly doing something right these days and with the launch of the TC7306u and TC7307u, they have really pushed the boat out with these two laptops. Sporting fourteen and fifteen inch displays these laptops have Wi-Fi, different colours and all the unusual trimmings that you would expect, nothing spectacular just a good hard working machine.
eMachines have always been the low-cost alternative. But now with netbooks flooding the market, eMachines needs to step up its game. So, the company is releasing a full sized laptop for less than $400. Is the eMD620 woth it? Let’s see.
As a Best Buy exclusive, this notebook is subpar. An Athlon 2650e with 1.6 GHz won’t get you very far in the office of on the net and the low 1 GB of RAM will surely lead to slowdown within a year.
Plus, the little thing us pretty ugly, sports low battery life and only has two USB ports.
Overall you are looking at a ba
The counter-intuitive little brother to the Lenovo Thinkpad SL300, the Thinkpad SL400 offers some solid specs, but it might not be worth the trouble required to bring this $600 laptop up to snuff, and up to price, at slightly above $1000.
Because the Thinkpad has become pretty standard across the board, you still get the Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.26 GHz, and the non-too shabby NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphics setup for lighter, old-school gaming. But, what you don’t
The Gateway P-7811FX is Gateway’s first retail laptop available only through Best Buy. It’s a little older, but I thought it was worth taking a look at because its specs and design are really holding up against some really recent additions to the laptop market.
Obviously, just by looking at it, you can see that the 7811FX fits right in with any number of current laptops in the design category. The orange piping is like totally right now. (Sorry.) But beyond looks, who are the specs on this $1,499 laptop?
First, the 17-inch screen and the availability of a B
MSI has made some fantastic notebooks, no one can deny that. For instance, the MSI Wind has been one of the most talked about netbooks out there. But when it comes to gaming machines, the Laptop Pimp was wondering how MSI stacks up.
For that reason, I wanted to take a look at the MSI GX720, just one of a number of gaming setups from MSI.
For starters, the GX720 looks great. The red-orange accents really
We took a look at the Toshiba Satellite E105-S1402 the other day, so I figured comparing the new Toshiba Satellite M305-S4835 specs might be appropriate. The M305, which runs about $1,050, is almost identical to it’s Best Buy cousin. However, the M305 is set up to be a little more powerful at home.
Primarily, the M305 can be used as a home media center, with a nice display size and a reasonable proc
A small step up from Dell in the low-price notebook market, Gateway has always been able to pack their laptops with some pretty decent specs. The Gateway MC-7803u is no exception.
Hitting the street at $1000, the MC-7803u is a well designed, nice looking desktop replacement. With it’s Intel Duo T5800 and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics set, it should be able to handle all you everyday home office and internet needs, as well as some basic gaming and editing.
And while the MC-7803u isn&
For HP’s first consumer 13-inch notebook, the company too the advice of consumers and put out a powerful, reasonably thin laptop that works best for home couch computing.
Simple design perks like a backlit keyboard and a remote make it competitive with the MacBook. Superior specs like the Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo processor, the built-in 4 GB of RAM and a GForce 9300M graphic set make the HP Pavilion dv3510nr a fast, powerful system for minor gamers and professional web surfers.
The Fujitsu LifeBook U820 is probably a dying breed. The handheld PC is really handheld these days. Blackberrys, iPhones and PDAs can all run full operating systems and compete with laptops as on-the-go devices. But for now, Fujitsu is going to keep moving with the handheld PC market.
These days, $1,199 will get you a tablet-style U820 with
Since Sony started making the VAIO line of laptops in the late ’90s, they have been superior business and play machines. And with the newest laptop offering, the Sony VAIO VGN-Z590, not much has changed as far as superior products go. In terms of specs though, the new Sony VAIO VGN-Z590 has some killer additions.
First and foremost, the Z590 is ultraportable, weighing in at 3.2-pounds. And with such a small frame, reviewers all over the net are blown away by the amount of gadgetry stu
