Intel Atom N550 released today

The Atom N550 dual core processor was released by Intel on Monday. The new processor is to be used in netbooks as the market demands higher performances from these devices. Although netbooks were initially made for internet browsing and few resource demanding applications such as word processing, with time the technology progressed a lot and [...]

AMD will no longer post complicated stickers on laptops

Well AMD definitely know what they want, and they have been known to make some unexpected moves. This one, though not really relevant, could prove to be quite useful in the long term. Instead of puting stickers on laptopts with the names of processors taking up palmrest space, they figure ‘hey, let’s just tell folks [...]

The X300 is great for road warriors

As you would expect in a review of such a laptop, there are la lot of comparissons with the Apple alternative, which in this case is the MacBook Air. There are some similarities but also a lot of differences between the two. The biggest differences are the selection of ports, built-in DVD or second battery, [...]

Everex Cloudbook Unboxed

Well it’s unboxed alright; unboxed, fondled, analyzed, declared horrible. That’s the short story. If you were excited about this alternative to an Eee PC you may be a bit dissapointed. Laptopmag found a whole lot of bad things about it, as follows. The pointing device and the left and right mouse keys are above the [...]

Toshiba Portege R500: possibly the lightest laptop in the world

I recently came across the latest portable from the Portege R500 series, of which producers Toshiba say that it’s the “lightest notebook in the world” Elegant and extremely thin (19,5 mm), weighing just 799 grams (a hundred less then any other competitor in it’s class), the R500-10U model with a 12,1 inch display, is designed [...]