The 11.6” range of netbooks is a personal favourite, offering a decent sized screen with higher resolutions than your typical 10.1” display or more cost effective than the ones that it equals. Although the new Acer Aspire 1430 Notebook doesn’t technically qualify as a netbook, it does provide a fantastic solution for either a netbook...
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Maingear have been busy working their way into the mobile gaming consumer market, just recently releasing a number of gaming laptops and shortly after offering another two to the collection, the Alt-15 and Alt-17 gaming laptops. The company aims to provide gaming laptops at various prices and performances, these two new additions aim to provide a...
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Touchpads are a common complaint about laptops and netbooks alike, seeing as without an additional USB mouse the touchpad is your main input tool, it’s pretty important that manufacturers get this right; but it’s not down to the manufacturers of your laptop, but the manufacturer of your touchpad, in most cases Synaptics. Synaptics are in the...
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There’s fast Flash drive USB memory sticks and then there’s the LaCie SSD-based USB 3.0 FastKey. LaCie have been making portable hard drives and putting interesting spins on portable re-writable media for some time now, and here they are once again with an SSD-based USB 3.0 ‘FastKey’ which offers huge capacities of storage at high speeds...
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Super slim laptops are all the rage, a number of companies have jumped on the bandwagon after the release of the Macbook Air and with the refresh model having just come out, our love for these super compact devices has been rekindled once more. Lenovo are now planning to offer a 12.5” option to the range...
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As if all we’ve heard before wasn’t enough reason to be excited about next years CES event in 2011, but of course we’re hearing more and more about products we can expect to see as it comes closer to the date. The latest news comes as Pixel Qi intend to show off their 7” display prototypes,...
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Apple have always been typically slow to adopt new technology for connectivity, it was a long time before we saw the first Apple devices receiving the upgrade from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0. With the release of USB 3.0 Apple is yet again late to the party and apparently have no intention of ever supporting the...
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In further attempts to force 3D out of the realms of the gimmick into a valid feature, the release of the HP Envy 17 3D laptop is one of the best things that could have ever happened to the format. Although many maintain, and will do for the foreseeable future, that 3D is something that isn’t...
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If you’re looking for a laptop that can provide you with an elaborate design that makes use of extremely expensive and unusual materials (for a laptop), then Munk Bogballe have just the laptop for you. Priced at $7180 for the baseline model, this laptop may be for people who lack common sense, but certainly not for...
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So if MSI aren’t bringing out any new netbooks lately and they’re not planning to start making tablets until late next year, what have they been up to? Focussing on their notebook line it would seem. MSI have just announced a new notebook with some serious specifications that should hopefully be here before Christmas. The MSI...
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