Laptop reviews
No fuss about Dell
Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Its long time Dell should launch some exciting unique product of its own when other giants like apple are busy working of innovations in form of iPhone or something else. Michael Dell said that Dell will soon launch some innovative item in market but it seems he is on ling holiday. Past several months, we have witnessed no surprise from Dell. Its the era of creativity. Apple is surviving because it earns amidst global recession due to its lucrative products. Google has done no layoffs because it earns significantly still from search. To survive in this global competition of notebooks, Dell as being a reputed brand should come up with new notebook or maybe a gadget or maybe some app based device with some extra-ordinary functions.
Poor quality battery in notebooks
Friday, November 7th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
One thing that is general complaint is poor quality batteries in notebooks. Except few models, most notebooks have batteries which start giving less no. of hours per recharge. In Dell Inspiron 1525, i have got complaint about battery life getting from 2.5 hours to 1.5 hours. Now what the hell you expect for 1.5 hours battery life. What mobility does it actually serve. why cant companies make battery as good as other general component of PC. A bad battery life kills the purpose of mobility in notebook. I have seen models in Toshiba giving some excellent battery life up to 7 hours and some models in Sony Vaio like TZ series which gives 10 hours battery life. Battery life satisfaction is never seen in less price range laptops.
Sony Vaio, the elegant and luxury notebook brand
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Whatever we say, whether Vaio costs heap or Blu-ray is dead, Vaio notebooks are one which make a lasting impression on a user. With Several features and fantastic accessories and savings schemes while buying, plus full high definition video with Blu-ray technology and 1080p resolution in most of its series, they just simply rock. The Xbrite technology is beautiful and the clarity and video quality that you enjoy on Vaio notebooks is simply luxury. Plus Sony’s international customer care facility is also good (you get international travel warranty with higher end models). Sony being a recognized international brand offers good customer support unlike HP Customer care which sucks. Sony Vaio CS Series is quite a good one with options in models ranging from basic to high end ones. Also Sony Vaio had limited editions of notebooks recently which had fine paintings as design in notebook instead of just glossy colours and i swear they were worth having a look to just lust for them. Yeah, they were limited editions and no cheap ones.
Dell Inspiron 1525 has perfect specs
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Dell Inspiron 1525 has perfect specs suited for a normal user with 2 GB RAM and other sufficient HDD and features at good price. In India, this model is one of the most favourite one and here you get 9 vibrant colors options. I suppose Dell was the first one to experiment with colors in notebooks which has led other brands like Sony to also experiment with it. For a normal user, 1525 model is best suited and anyone who has decided to go with Dell will certainly give priority to this model first. The 15.4″ piece is perfect for home use with great configuration.
Is Blu-ray dead ?
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
I read some article online about Blu-ray saying that Blu-ray technology is as good as dead due to severe limitations, the main being high costs when most brands are struggling to reduce prices and where DVD technology is working fine.
Limitations :
(1) High costs and several other obstacles including high costs and inability of small producers to adopt them.
(20) Blu-ray movies and player are costly.
(3) High licensing fees of BDA - Blu-ray Disc Association.
(4) People are still content with DVD and other excellent codecs for movies.
Sony Vaio Notebooks are one famous for Blu-ray technology. This technology fascinated people a lot in beginning but above limitations limited its use among common public. Only those willing to shell out money and obsessed for HD movies go for it. I expect a fair market share of Blu-ray laptops in coming decade.
Dell launches Inpiron Mini 9 Netbook
Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Dell is soon going to ship its Netbook, Inspiron Mini 9 as Vostro A90 available in 9 different colours. 8.9″ screen and Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD and 1024 X 600 display. This piece is selling in japan for $972 ! This is pretty high price and with that price, you can get a nice configured netbook of HP or any other brand. It is expected that Dell will sell at one-third of this price in UK or chances it would sell is negligible. Who insane will buy netbook for nearly $1000 when you can get it for $350 for same specs.
Lenovo provides largest range of notebooks
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Lenovo provides one of the largest range of laptops with tons of notebooks in both IdeaPad and ThinkPad series. The range is so wide that you can get almost assembled type PC in both notebooks and desktops. Lenovo also sells servers like IBM does. In ThinkPad, there are series in different price range starting from R series to X series tablet to W series. And U series and Y series and also S series in IdeaPad models. You can customize your PC online with extras and accessories like Web cam, bags, etc. and then get it shipped at your place in 2 weeks time. There are some good models in Lenovo like Elite ThinkPad R500, ThinkPad T61, etc and like IdeaPad U330 in U series of IdeaPad.
Lenovo IdeaPad U330 - 22672BU Review
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Lenovo ‘IdeaPad’ series features some exclusive business class suited notebooks priced above $1000 range. Today i will review IdeaPad’s model 22672BU. Also model 22672AU is also available with minor configuration change. The idea of whole game of keeping so many models is to perfectly make a model which best suits you or which is almost near to your configuration you want. That is the reason these brands keep a lot of models with minor differences between 2 models.
Configuration - Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7350 2 GHz, 1GHz FSB and 3 MB L2 cache, 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 250 GB HDD at 5400 rpm, DVD recordable, ATI Radeon HD 3450 256 MB graphics card. Supports Wi-Fi. Battery is still 6 cell lithium ion one.
13.3 inch WXGA TFT Anti-glare and also comes with Integrated Webcam. One year warranty on parts and labor and even 1 year warranty of system battery.
Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium. The RAM Type is DDR3 than DDR2. Model 22672AU has 3 GB RAM and 320 GB HDD. All other configuration same as BU suffix model.
Price of U330 - 22672BU - $1200
Price of U330 - 22672AU - $1300.
Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Lenovo ThinkPad T series has 3 models, T400 and T500. I will review T61 model. T400 had 14.1″ screen instead of 15.4″.
Configuration - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz T8100 with 800 MHz FSB and 3 MB L2 Cache. 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM. 80 GB HDD at 5400 rpm. No Bluetooth. Ultravnav. DVD Recordable 8X, has 128 MB Dedicated NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M. Supports Wi-Fi, 6 cell Li-Ion Battery.
15.4 inch WXGA Widescreen TFT. Comes within 1 year depot warranty. The only drawback i feel is 80 GB HDD. A PC must at least have 160 GB HDD in today’s time.
OS - Windows Vista Home basic. Priced at $860 on lenovo’s official website.
7200 RPM in HDD
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
In Hard Disk, the common RPM (Revolutions per minute) is 5400 rpm. But there are also 7200 rpm HDD. I would like to tell you here that you will be likely finding this 7200 rpm mostly in Sony Vaio series. Like LT 28 model and few other models in Vaio too. Vaio is only such brand which offers 7200 rpm than traditional 5400 rpm. 7200 rpm will give you better performance of your HDD, much faster than 5400 rpm one. So try to go for 7200 rpm HDD models because you will experience in your HDD usage.