Aluminum Starter Brick.
The currently smallest aluminum MacBook with 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 160 GB HDD and without keyboard lighting in review. Does the economical configuration suffice or should you dig considerably deeper in your pocket for the 2.4 GHz version?
Phased-Out Model.
The business subnotebook Esprimo Mobile U9200 is on sale at a netbook price of 400 – 500 Euros and offers, thanks to Pentium dual core, a considerably better performance, a brilliant and matt 12″ screen at a weight short of 2kg. You will discover if the peewee is a bargain or not in the following review.
Business Alternative from Asus.
The Taiwanese manufacturer Asus should be a name for many who are interested in computers. Mainboards, graphic cards, EeePC and gaming notebooks are only a few fields with which the name is connected. The Asus B80A presents itself to us, untypically and therefore exotic, as a born-and-bred business notebook in a dying out 14.1″ format. Can the newbie take it up with the established competition from Lenovo, HP and Dell or has Asus overtaken themselves in this area and won’t find the link despite all effort?
Asus doesn’t offer a big variety of configuration options. Only one arrangement is available at the moment and relieves interested customers from the usual option of choice already in the forefront. Therefore it’s more important that the available version has an opulence on components, which satisfies the ambitioned corporate. And Asus has quite a bit to offer.
An LED-lit and splash-proof keyboard, fingerprint reader and webcam with face recognition and extension options via an optional docking station. Above that, our model had an Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 (2×2.0Ghz) CPU, 3 GB DDR2 RAM, 250 GB hard disk, Intel GMA 4500 MHD graphic with an HDMI-out and a matt 14.1″ WXGA display in 16:10 format. You have to pass on the basically available, but not offered in this country, faster processors, hard disks, other operating systems or a 9 cell battery. A disadvantage which the current “1-model-policy” brings about. Continue reading »
A good, cheap alternative, or maybe just cheap?
Eee PC & Co have proved many critics wrong with their current netbook boom. Apparently, these mini laptops, with their long battery life and modest performance, are not only selling well, they are also stealing potential buyers from other notebook sections. The low-end models of laptop producers have not remained immune to this drastic change. The producers are trying not to lose their hold in the market by aggressively reducing the price of their above-mentioned models. The HP Compaq 6735s belongs to this group, as it is not only cheap, but also has a good combination of ports.
Our test model is available with many different AMD processors, such as: Sempron, Athlon 64 X2, Turion X2, and Turion X2 Ultra. The system of our test model is based on AMD’s Puma-platform, which uses the integrated ATI HD3200 graphics chip. Unfortunately for the HP 6735s, the competition is high. It must fight against the netbook faction and the Intel dominance of the market for control over sales, and, as if that were not enough, it has to compete against it’s own sister model, the Intel based HP 6730s. Continue reading »
