Category: Laptops / Notebooks
TECHNOLOGY DEATHMATCH: Notebook vs Netbook
It was just over a year ago now that netbooks first hit the scene. Of course, we didn’t know them as netbooks at the time. They were Eee PCs, until the world and his wife brought their own versions out and suddenly we needed to invent a new category.
We toyed with sub-notebook for a while and you’ll still see me drop it in the odd post when I’m searching for another word for netbook but this isn’t the point. The point is that they’re here now. The game has changed. The paradigm has shifted and now that the dust is settling is the novelty wearing off?
So, today here on Technology Deathmatch, I’m affording you an entirely subjective view on the matter with the odd bit of balance thrown in. It’s George vs the Dragon, David vs Goliath, Jonah vs the Whale – yes, NOTEBOOK VS NETBOOK!…
SHINY VIDEO PREVIEW: Medion Akoya P8610 media centre laptop
Here’s the Medion Akoya P8610 which I got a sneaky look at just before Christmas, but only just remembered to post. To recap from our original post, it’s a good, cheap, multimedia laptop, with oodles of features. High specs, too – with a dual core processor, 4GB of RAM, dolby audio system and dedicated graphics. Impressive, and perfect for hooking up to a home cinema setup. Yours for £800.
Medion Shop
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CES 2009: Hands on with the Asus T91
Susi was lucky enough to get her her hands on the swivelly Asus T91 in Vegas that we originally covered here. It’s got a GPS unit, a touchscreen and a TV tuner – quite nifty for an 8.9″ netbook. Can’t wait to try Windows 7 on it.
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CES 2009: iRiver's space-age product lineup
After Dan covered the Wave-Home multimedia communicator the other day, I did a little more digging, and found a bunch of other matching products that iRiver unveiled at CES.
I’ve always quietly been a fan of iRiver’s design work. Their latest MP3 players look incredible, and these sleek new gadgets wouldn’t be out of place in a documentary called “The home of 2100”. Click the Wave-Home below to view the gallery.
iRiver (via Akihabaranews)
CES 2009: Video close-up of the Sony Vaio P Series
If the talk this year at CES 2009 has been about any one piece of hardware, it’s been the Sony Vaio P Series non-netbook UMPC. We’d be doing you a serious diservice if we hadn’t sent Susi down to take a closer, more camcodered look at the the full size keyboard, 8″ LCD really expensive machine. So, we did…
CES 2009: HP Mini 2140 netbook
Here’s HP’s netbook, the Mini 2140. It’s really rather nice, packing a good size keyboard, 10.1″ screen and 80GB SSD. Decent price, too – but I’ll let Zara reveal that one. Check out the video above to find out.
(via Shiny Shiny)
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Rock adds Intel's Q9000 quad-core chip to its Xtreme 780 gaming laptop
There are very few true PC gamers that’ll willingly buy a laptop over a desktop, primarily because the performance-price difference is so great. Rock’s just added an Intel Q9000 chip to its flagship gaming laptop – the Xtreme 780, but I suspect the majority of gamers out there simply won’t care.
It’s not even that great a machine. Quad-core aside, the 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS is merely adequate, the 2GB of memory will look very meagre before the end of 2009, and a 250GB hard drive is considerably less than most gamers will need. For £1700, which is what the Xtreme 780 costs, you could make two desktop PCs that outspec this laptop.
CES 2009: MSI goes Mac with the super thin MSI X320 netbook
I’m starting to get a little sick of computers without optical drives what with the world still handing out CDs full of drivers, software and all manner of useful and inaccessible data, but if I could get round that block I’d probably be really impressed with the MSI X320 as unveiled at CES, er, Unveiled 2009 today.
The 13.4″, 16:9 ratio machine is MacBook Air thin…
CES 2009: Images, details and generally more from Asus
Since the flurry of high speed information at today’s Asus press conference, we’ve gathered some further intelligence on what exactly what the netbook makers announced earlier today.
Asus Eee PC S121
The S121 is pretty much a straight upgrade of the Eee PC S101…
Macworld 2009: 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro
After boring us senseless with two out of the four of their big announcements, Apple has finally woken us up with the launch of the new 17-inch MacBook Pro at Macwold in San Francisco today.
Not-Steve-Jobs Phill Schiller, heralded the arrival of the world’s lightest, thinnest machine…
