Laptop reviews
Lenovo laptops are cheap
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
I have never been a fan of lenovo brand because it hasn’t according to me produced any great feature in laptop except face recognition technology and i don’t understand why few people are a fan of this. Although prices of notebooks have been lowered much in past a years time. I suppose you can get a good specs notebook of 15.4 inch from lenovo nearly for Rs. 30,000 ($ 650). But at that price, i can bet you can get even more better model from some other brand. I will soon write about one good model of Lenovo. I can refer Dell and Sony Vaio because these 2 brands are sufficient for your requirement type notebook with both having excellent support outside US as well.
Get high quality display with Sony Vaio AW series
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
In laptops, you can’t get the best of all features like as in assembled or high branded desktop. But you can of course get that feature special model. Sony Vaio AW series has some cool new feature. The screen of the laptop is 18.4 inch, high quality LED backlight and 1920 X 1080 display ! It is best piece for playing Blu-ray disc movie disc on it and watch sensationally high colour definition video and audio sound. The only drawback is that it has 4200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm. It is priced at around $4000.
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo with 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM and dedicated memory of 512 MB for Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT. I can recommend this to you only if you are die hard fan of high quality video and can afford to spend for it.
Asus Eee PC 901 available in India
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | 11 Comments
Today i read the advertisement in newspaper regarding Asus Eee PC 901 netbook type, is now available in India. India doesn’t have much Asus products, i can hardly recall any now. But now you can find these Asus netbooks at specific dealers of it with some good discount and bonus. It os currently priced in $600 with 6 cell lithium ion battery and 1 GB RAM. I dont know the exact price of it but will let you know once i will get to hear more about it and also post it reviews. Asus will be the first netbook seller in India.
We expect Apple to launch its Netbook soon
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
The only one brand which i haven’t heard lately in netbook market is Apple. We already have heard about toshiba, asus, lenovo entering this huge market but have heard no development in this market from silent Apple. Already Apple is selling its 13.3 inch screen mac and now it can get one of 9 inch with 1 GB RAM and some exciting new and completely different features at best price for around $500. Apple has a lot of loyal fans who are crazy about its product and netbook can be one place for them to create another history.
Asus Eee Box Mini PC
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Asus has some cool new mini PC in market with relatively good configuration with good prices. Its already in the Netbook market.
Model - EBXB202-BLK-X0023
Configuration - Single CPU, 80 GG HDD, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, Intel Atom N270 1.60 GHz Processor, Intel GMA 950 Graphics card and has Windows XP as OS.
The size of the model is quite small and also battery power consume is much less than ordinary PC. But sound volume is low. Also you have no CD/DVD drive. Price is $350.
Model - EBXB202-WHT-X0023
Configuration - Same as above model with Windows XP.
Price - $340
In both models, you have MS works and even support Wireless LAN. These are worlds smallest PC’s weighing just 1.5 kg.
Dell Inspiron 1525 battery life sucks
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Dell Inspiron 1525, one of the best models in Inspiron series of dell has sucking battery life. I have read reviews about this on various places on web and even from my friends that it has very low poor quality battery life. The battery life is just about 1.5 hours even of normal technical settings. Also battery quality is quite poor. Inspiron has one of the best fit configuration at best price and this was hot piece in market few weeks back when it was available in market. I don’t know why Dell stopped it. Maybe they could have continued it production as it fared well in the market. But battery life is very bad. Dell being a brand in notebooks market should give at least 4 hours battery life models. 1.5 hours battery makes no sense.
LG 3G Netbook X110 Momo to release soon
Monday, September 29th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
The latest entry in much in buzz Netbook market is LG. Well, whats the new thing ? Asus, Toshiba, lenovo, HP are already in the market with vibrant colours and low price. But wait, now LG has come with 3G internet in its netbook. That’s something new in the market. LG will soon release X110 Momo named model for its entry in netbooks.
It has 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, bluetooth option, SD card reader and yes, 1.3 MP Web cam. It also has 3 G radio feature. Although LG is going to collaborate with any service provider for this 3G model isn’t yet known. This product i suppose would be quite limited in features in other countries because countries like India and other Asian countries don’t support 3G. Pricing we expect to be $150 higher than other netbooks, something around $500.
OS - Windows XP. The look of the model is quite stylish an sleek. Here’s it preview :
Sony Vaio CS Series Review
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | 3 Comments
In Vaio, CS Series is the one that comes in lower price range. There are 5 models in it, CS 12,14,15,17,18 with increasing price respectively. Major differnece in them is Processor GHz and RAM.
Configuration - Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.2 Ghz. 160 to 320 GB ATA HDD. 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM. Only model CS 17 and 18 have both dedicated 128 MB Graphics card memory. Mobile Intel Graphiocs accelerator. DVD Writer/Player. All have built in Bluetooth feature and built in webcam 1280 X 1024 effective pixels.
Battery Life is less than 3 hours. So bad battery life. TZ series have excellent battery life, as long as 10 hours.
OS - Windows Vista.
Price - There is about similar difference in price between consecutive models.
CS 13 - Rs. 45000
CS 14 - Rs. 50000
CS 15 - Rs. 55000
CS 17 - Rs. 60000
CS 18 - Rs. 70000
CS 17 model has some good colour options available apart from Aroma black like Jet blue, Clear white, Red and Pink also. They look great.
The Vaio CS series is best for budget buy in sony brand. Of course, i can recommend you another brand cheaper than sony a lot and still excellent features at much lower price. This series seems to be designed especially for indian market where people prefer cheaper laptops with better specs. Sony has tried to keep unwanted extras as minimum as possible and this can be best for light home use and not hardcore gaming or such.
Sony Vaio Z Series Review
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | Laptop reviews | 2 Comments
Sony Vaio Z Series is better known for a bit of mobility feature with 5 hours battery life. Now that isn’t something great either. Mobility version laptops should have 8 hours battery life and that’s something we yet to see. With development in nanotechnology, i suppose we would see some great surprises in laptops too.
Vaio Z Series has some great features. Aluminium keyboard, carbon fibre body and clear LCD screen.
Configuration - Intel Core 2 Duo processor 2.53 GHz. 320 serial GB ATA HDD. 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM ! That’s something worth looking. Its not DDR2 but DDR3 type. Graphics card is NVidea with 250 MB dedicated Video memory. Built in DVD writer/reader and bluetooth also. Memory stick slot available. Here, built in webcam has 640 X 480 pixels, lesser quality than SR 13 model.
13.3 inch WXGA TFT Screen
OS - Windows Vista
Priced at Rs. 1,25,000 ($ 2730). While another model is priced at INR 1,00,000 ($ 2200) which as 2.4 GHZ instead of 2.53 GHz, 250 GB HDD and 2 GB RAM.
Sony Vaio SR 13 Review
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Laptop reviews | 1 Comment
Sony Vaio SR 13 is a bit new series in vaio available in vibrant black, silver and pink colours.
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 Ghz. 250 GB HDD. RAM of 2 GB, extensible upto 4 GB. Has ATI Mobile Radeon graphics accelerator with dedicated video memory of 128 MB. Built in DVD Writer/player. Memory Stick slot and Built in bluetooth.
Built in webcam 1280 X 1024. 3 hours battery life. Not any good either. Its same as Compaq presario c773tu model. 13.3 Inch TFT WXGA Screen.
OS - Windows Vista Business.
Priced at $ 1650 (INR 75000).