laptops

Spring is coming!  Why not celebrate the season with a brand new PC?  Ben and Ryan give the lowdown on some of the season's best new PCs, like the Acer TimelineX 1830, ASUS U36Jc, Dell XPS 14, HP Pavilion dm1z, Lenovo U260, Samsung SF510, Sony VAIO Z, and the Toshiba Kid's PC.  …

You know, the thing about notebooks is that we all love the fact that they’re getting cheaper and cheaper every year (surely a Netbook’s going to be given away as a freebie in a packet of breakfast cereal before long, right?) but heaven forbid that manufacturers try to skimp a little on materials…

Sony revealed its first 3D Vaio laptop at the recent IFA trade show. Although the laptop was only a prototype, a Sony rep told TechRadar that he expects the new laptop will arrive next year. So what makes it 3D? The laptop has a 16” screen that uses 3D technology similar to that found in Sony…

Traditionally laptops have been the lower-performance compromise you make for leaving your desktop. Lenovo has changed that paradigm by producing this monster machine. With the first Quad Core Extreme CPU ever on a laptop, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 (with 1GB video memory), RAID 0 or 1, and 8GB (!) of…

A new company called NVousPC is capitalizing on the custom-designed laptops trend. Since laptops have become just as much a fashion accessory as they are a tool for getting work done, NVousPC lets you customize your laptop's look...totally & completely, both inside and out. The panels of…

Earlier this week I wrote about a couple ExpressCards that can extend the horsepower on your laptop. But what if you don't have an ExpressCard slot? Or what if your new laptop has an ExpressCard slot but you still have a lot of money tied up in older PCMCIA cards from your previous laptop? What you…

I don't have a desktop computer at work. I'm one of the many who have given up on the big boxes and simply use a laptop for everything. The problem is that laptops are often short on the high-end hardware that makes desktops so enjoyable. Here are a few add-on's that you can use to help you get the…