18Jun2010
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: Professional Enclosure, Limited Performance
ThinkPad laptops are legendary amongst business users. Remembered as much for their uninspired but functional design as they are for their performance, IBM's (and now Lenovo's) ThinkPad lineup has served as the backbone of corporate mobile computing for the better part of two decades. The ThinkPad X100e continues this tradition in inexpensive, compact, and remarkably portable style. One of the
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Fujitsu Lifebook T4410: Performance, Design, and Usability
Tablet notebooks have always fallen into a slightly difficult position; they're slim, nicely designed, and reasonably powerful, yet at the same time they lack the battery longevity or processing power to be effective as a mobile workstation. Fujitsu, one of the most prominent tablet laptop developers, have aimed to combine portability and power with the new Lifebook T4410. At first glance, the
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Getac B300: The Laptop World's Ludicrously Expensive 007 Rig
Go anywhere, do anything, compute without fear. That's what the new Getac B300 laptop promises, and we have a feeling it's a promise that's completely accurate. You see, this isn't an ordinary laptop, but a James Bond-style piece of technology; a piece of rugged computing tech that wouldn't seem at all out of place on the inside of a military transport or cockpit of a fighter jet. The Getac B300
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Mesh Edge15 Value Plus: Inexpensive, Surprisingly Comfortable, and Based in the UK!
While the name Mesh may look slightly unfamiliar alongside Apple, Sony, and Asus, it could soon find itself residing permanently in the UK's consumer electronics catalogue. A small computer and consumer electronics manufacturer based in the UK, Mesh Computers offers a growing range of desktop computers, laptops, and computing peripherals. The Edge15 Value Plus is their entry-level model, a
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Samsung R720: Blu-Ray Playback Support From Just £799
Samsung's latest multimedia laptop – the R720 – is a surprising piece of machinery. Priced at under £800 and packing features often left unseen in laptops with a significantly higher price tag, the Korean conglomerate's latest creation is one of the most impressive and cost-effective notebooks we've seen in the last few years. Despite being a common addition in many high-end consumer PCs,
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Lenovo Thinkpad W701: The Most Powerful Thinkpad Yet
The Thinkpad is a truly legendary laptop. Manufactured by IBM sine the early 1990s and acquired by Lenovo in 2005, the Thinkpad line is renowned for solid build quality, remarkable usability, and impressive system performance. A favourite of professionals and serious mobile workers, it's hard to look through a service office and not spot a Thinkpad or two sitting on work tables or desks. It's
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Nokia Booklet 3G: Our Favourite High-End Netbook
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia may seem like an odd entrant into the netbook market. The well-known cellphone manufacturer was once a dominant force in mobile broadband technology and the first name in the smartphone war, though recent competition from Apple Inc. and Google has forced them a little out of the picture. It's surprising then, that the well-known cellphone giant has decided to
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Apple MacBook: Is the 2010 Revision a Worthwhile Purchase?
Apple's most recent Macbook may not be as sleek or sexy as the 2008 Aluminium unibody, but it certainly offers a marked improvement from the company's previous low-end lineup. With the same polycarbonate enclosure and a host of hardware upgrades, the 2010 Macbook is a mix of new technology and familiarity – just what we've come to expect from the Cupertino-based tech giant. Compare the last
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Tech Retrospective: 3 Revolutionary Laptops
The technology world has seen some incredible advances over the last five years. Netbooks have grown from a techie-only obsession into a remarkably mainstream product, something as at-home in a student's bag as in a technology office. High-end laptops have started replacing desktop PCs, capitalizing on people's need for portability and flexible computing. But despite the truly huge advances in
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MSI GT640-030UK: Taiwan's Latest High-End Portable Gaming Rig
The gaming community has been reluctant to embrace gaming laptops, and for good reason. Not only were early portable gaming machines years behind their desktop counterparts, their 'portability' was suspect and difficult to justify. Yesteryear's gaming laptops were equal parts bulky and ugly, housed in boring plastic cases and packing components that were typically six-to-twelve months behind
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