Category: laptop reviews
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Toshiba Satellite C855-S5206 Review
The Toshiba Satellite C855-S5206 is yet another configuration from the laptop maker’s C855 cheap full-size 15.6″ series. Sporting the 2nd Generation Intel Core i3-2370M “Sandy Bridge” dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive, the Satellite C855-S5206 is a mid-range system with the last year’s CPU and the latest design. The CPU’s performance…
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Review Dell Precision M4600: Mobile Workstation Muscle
Review Summary: The Dell Precision M4600 is one of the most powerful 15-inch mobile workstations available. Just be ready for high costs if you customize it. Pros Great 1080p IPS display option Plenty of ports Extreme performance Cons Poor laptop battery life Thick and heavy Weak backlit keyboard Expensive if heavily customized Dell Precision M4600…
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Full review MSI GT60 gaming laptop
Call it the attack of the awesome ivy. MSI’s GT60 gaming notebook is one of the first notebooks to hit the market with Intel’s third-generation Ivy Bridge processor. Combine that with a vibrant 1080p display, good audio quality and a powerful Nvidia GPU and you’ve got a recipe for hours of questing, grinding and saving…
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Sony new Vaio SA and SB-series with docking stations and battery slices
Sony is equipping its new Vaio SA-series and SB-series with docking stations and battery slices. The laptop battery life is going to double, and the annoying plugging in of power cables will be a thing of the past. Sony Vaio VPC-SB1Z9EB with Battery Slice VGP-BPSC24 on the Docking Station VGP-PRS20 Who hasn’t stared jealously at…
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15-Inch Laptops Are Still Popular
Steve Jobs may think we’re living in the post-PC era, but when it comes to consumers’ notebook preferences, we’re not even in the post-desktop era. Mainstream shoppers continue to snap up clunky 15-inch laptops that are closer in size and feel to the old-school desktops they’re replacing. This ongoing trend does not bode well for…
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Top 5 important things tablets can’t do yet
Tablet computers have actually been on the market for some time. However, it wasn’t until the iPad came out that the tablet format really took off. With the marketing arm of Apple behind it, along with the raging success of the iPhone, the iPad was a shoe-in for a mass-market mobile computing device. Despite all…
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Review Dell Latitude XT3 Enterprise-class Laptop
The very sturdy Dell Latitude XT3 is an enterprise-class laptop that comes with a twist: You can quickly fold it into a tablet PC by rotating its screen on its single central hinge. Such so-called convertible PCs often land in large organizations, including those in the health care, education, and law enforcement fields. This kind…
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Review and Rating HP Pavilion G6 All-Purpose Laptop
The HP Pavilion g6 is a straightforward, solid all-purpose laptop for a good price. The HP Pavilion g6 is exactly what you’d expect for its starting price of around £300: bland. While there’s absolutely nothing exciting about this machine, it does what it’s supposed to do, and does it well: The chassis is simple yet…
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A Fast, Tough and Pricey Business Laptop: Dell Latitude E6420 ATG
What does $3000 get you in a business laptop these days? With the Dell Latitude E6420 ATG, it buys top-flight computing speed and nearly half a day’s battery life packed into a feature-rich chassis with a fortified case that might stop some bullets. But the $3136 (as of June 15, 2011) price tag of our…
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Lenovo ThinkPad T420s Laptop Reviews by batteries-company.com
PROS Very thin and light; strong performance; durable design; very good audio reproduction; perfect keyboard CONS Poor battery life; mediocre graphics performance; narrow viewing angle for video; pricey EDITORS’ TAKE The Lenovo ThinkPad T420s delivers better performance than its predecessor thanks to Intel’s latest Core i5 platform, but the thin machine skimps on battery life.…