Back to school tools
Subject: Mobile | September 19, 2007 - 03:28 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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... or in some cases maybe a bribe. Ars Technica examines the Lenovo ThinkPad T61, the HP Pavilion dv6500t , Sony's VAIO VGN-FZ180 and the Toshiba Satellite A205-S4617, all priced between $1,200 to $1,400, if you don't count the Blu-Ray player on the Sony. They rate the laptops on a number of different areas, focusing more on portability and productivity than gaming, which is a good thing in the case of the Toshiba.
HD ThinkPad
Subject: Mobile | September 12, 2007 - 02:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Lenovo's new ThinkPad T61p sports a 15.4" display, which is nothing interesting, but the display goes to 1920x1200, which is. Driving that is a QuadroFX 570M with 256MB, so you won;t be gaming, but your multimedia will look great. You should see what other features Digital Trends uncovered in this Santa Rosa based notebook.
"The T61p is a very capable and powerful notebook that should be on any cubicle jockey or road warrior's wish list."
Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
OQO First to Ship 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV Processor
Subject: Mobile | September 11, 2007 - 11:18 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Taipei, Taiwan, 10 September 2007 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that OQO Inc. is the first manufacturer to ship the 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor in the latest configurations of its award-winning model 02 product line.
The higher-speed processor in this update of the OQO model 02 - the world’s smallest full-featured Windows Vista PC – further increases the device's performance and thus enables mobile professionals to enhance their anytime/anywhere productivity.
Ultraportable Santa Rosa power
Subject: Mobile | September 6, 2007 - 02:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The ultraportable Dell XPS M1330 is up for review at the Hardware Zone. It sports a widescreen 13.3" WXGA TrueLife LED monitor, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS, and a T7700, all in a 2kg package, including the battery. As you would expect, the notebook is customizable depending on whether you need a more powerful version, or just a portable workstation. Along with the new chipset comes a new shell design,
Packard Bell Makes It Easier To Stay Connected with its New 950-gram Notebook
Subject: Mobile | September 4, 2007 - 11:25 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Packard Bell, one of the leading consumer electronics brands in Europe, today announced the launch of its new EasyNote XS, a 7-inch notebook which combines advanced portability with a full featured PC running Windows XP Home Edition. Designed to be your everyday mobile companion, it's the perfect choice for mobile users that find full-sized notebooks too big and PDAs too limited.
Externalizing your power
Subject: Mobile | August 31, 2007 - 01:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AC Ryan has released a universal notebook external battery, called MobiliT. It weighs about 1.5lbs, and provides 6600 mAH (105WH), and lives up to it's universal claim by coming with 8 output tips and input connectors. DV Hardware found adding 2 hours or more of power on the go was well worth the price.
It's the extras that make it special
Subject: Mobile | August 27, 2007 - 05:16 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you are going to spend the money to get an Alienware laptop, what is the point in going with the basic model? AnandTech asked themselves that when they decided to review the Area-51 m9750, and then busied themselves adding the extras that make Alienware the envy of laptop gamers everywhere. Read on to see what they ended up adding to the machine, and how much it set them back to get blazing hot graphics on a laptop.
Specifications
The Satellite P205-S6287 is our first opportunity to review a Toshiba product. This huge "desktop replacement" notebook features the Core 2 Duo T5300 processor running at 1.73 GHz.
AGEIA Enhances Mobile Gaming With The Launch Of World's First AGEIA PhysX Mobile Processor For High
Subject: Mobile | August 22, 2007 - 12:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - August 22, 2007 - Mobile gaming just got better: AGEIA Technologies, Inc. the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for PC and a leader in console games, today announced the world's first PhysX Mobile processor, the AGEIA PhysX 100M, for high performance gaming notebook PCs.
New mobile workstation from Lenovo
Subject: Mobile | August 21, 2007 - 01:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The new ThinkPad T61p is quite powerful for a notebook, even a ThinkPad. With a C2D T7700, 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300
and Nvidia Quadro FX 570M (256MB) with a 15.4" 1920x1200 display. Vista's built in experience benchmark places it at 4.8, the lowest score being the RAM. Give this notebook a good look over at XYZ Computing.