Laptops
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for the Windows on Arm platform. Announced is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 14 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 both feature Qualcomm's latest 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, ushering in a new era for Microsoft's Windows on Arm platform. Lenovo aims to target content creators and business professionals with these new models. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor looks set to try to change the adoption of the Windows-on-Arm devices, with a critical focus on providing AI capability on device, which promises up to 45 TOPs of performance solely from the Hexagon NPU. Powered...
Who Says Bigger Isn't Better? Clevo X7200 with 480M SLI Available from AVADirect
When we looked at NVIDIA's 480M with its 100W TDP, we were curious how long it would take for notebook manufacturers to deal with the power requirements that two...
33 by Jarred Walton on 9/24/2010Gateway ID49: Mixing the Bag
Gateway certainly isn't the first brand you think of when you're looking for a stylish, classy, well-rounded notebook, but that's just what they aim to bring to the table...
43 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/23/2010HP Mini 5102: This Netbook Means Business
We’ve seen more than our fair share of Pine Trail netbooks since their launch late last year. Performance has never been spectacular, but battery life and portability have been...
24 by Jarred Walton on 9/22/2010Netbook and Tablet Fever at IDF 2010
Here at IDF, Intel has been promoting the Atom platform pretty heavily, with the new dual core Atom N550 and all of the new Moorestown-based chips like the CE4200...
22 by Vivek Gowri on 9/15/2010Ocosmos OCS1: Oak Trail Gaming Tablet Impressions
We managed to catch up with Ocosmos, the people behind the OCS1 gaming tablet from Douglas Davis’ keynote this morning, and got some more information regarding the intruiging new...
33 by Vivek Gowri on 9/15/2010Dell Shows off 10" Inspiron Duo Convertible Netbook/Tablet
Dell just demonstrated its upcoming 10-inch Inspiron Duo convertible netbook/tablet. Based on the dual core Atom N550 the Inspiron Duo runs Windows 7 Premium. The system can work as...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010First Public Demo of Oaktrail and Windows Gaming Tablet
Earlier this year Intel unveiled its Moorestown architecture, branded as the Atom Z600 series for smartphones and handhelds. Moorestown focused on a significant reduction in idle and active power...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2010Neofonie WeTab: Preliminary Impressions of MeeGo
Out of Germany comes the WeTab, the first shipping MeeGo-based tablet, running Intel’s new open source operating system on top of the venerable Atom N450 processor. It’s a fairly...
1 by Vivek Gowri on 9/14/2010ASUS' N82Jv: Jack-Of-All-Trades
Over the years, we've looked at many of ASUS' mobile offerings. From the lowly Eee PC up through gaming powerhouses, ASUS has something for everyone. They're looking to increase...
34 by Jarred Walton on 9/11/2010Toshiba Portege R700: A Truly Ultraportable 13.3"
To say that I was very impressed by the Toshiba R700 on paper would be an understatement. Even with very little actual hands-on time with the notebook, I put...
43 by Vivek Gowri on 9/7/2010Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: When Build Quality Matters Most
The pricetag of Lenovo's ThinkPad X100e has come down a couple of hundred dollars from its lofty perch when it entered the market more than six months ago, but...
25 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/3/2010NVIDIA 400M: DX11 Top to Bottom Solutions Now Available
When Fermi first launched on the desktop, we wondered how long it would take to trickle down to the lower end markets—and the mobile team also wondered if we'd...
40 by Jarred Walton on 9/3/2010Toshiba Satellite A660D-ST2G01: AMD's Quad-Core Phenom II P920 Joins the Mobile Party
We've looked at AMD's slightly older Tigris platform in the form of their M300 and M600 processors. While performance of those parts was better than previous AMD designs, Intel...
33 by Jarred Walton on 8/31/2010Intel Atom N550 Notebooks
Intel has launched their first dual-core Atom processor designed purely for netbooks, the N550. The new CPU has led to the netbook manufacturers scrambling to update their products to...
23 by Balraj Sandhu on 8/30/2010Intel's Core 2011 Mobile Roadmap Revealed: Sandy Bridge Part II
Late last week we pulled back the covers on Intel's next-generation Core architecture update: Sandy Bridge. Due out in Q1 2011, we learned a lot about Sandy Bridge's performance...
55 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/30/2010Dell Studio 17: When Gaming Isn't Enough
Usually when we get to the 17"-class notebooks here, we're dealing with machines designed almost exclusively for gaming. The problem is that these machines also tend to be prohibitively...
41 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/26/2010Toshiba T235D: AMD's 2010 Ultrathin "Nile" Platform
We've been looking forward to testing AMD's Nile Ultrathin platform since the first press releases went out. It's no secret that AMD's mobile offerings have trailed in performance and...
35 by Jarred Walton on 8/23/2010Dell Studio 14: Defining Solid
With the back to school season in full swing now, manufacturers are all competing for a slice of a particularly delicious pie: college students. This is a group of...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/19/2010HP EliteBook 8440w: On-the-Go Workstation
HP's EliteBook 8440w is the smallest workstation on the market, making it an intruiging notebook for on-the-run engineers and professionals who do a lot of CAD and simulation analysis...
45 by Vivek Gowri on 8/13/2010MSI Wind U230: One Last Hurrah for the AMD Athlon Neo X2 Congo
AMD's Athlon II Neo and Turion II Neo processors are starting to trickle into the marketplace, but that doesn't mean the old school Athlon Neo and Turion Neo are...
33 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/4/2010