Posted on August 13th, 2010 | by admin
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We are getting a lot of questions about the availability of Hex Core Laptops or said differently 6 Core Laptops. With the the Hex Core, Intel i7-980x, just launched we had to dig deep to find a 6 core laptop. Luckily Eurocom answered the market’s call.
Here are the specs for the Eurocom D900F Panther.
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17″ Glossy Glare LCD (1920 x 1200)
i7-980X Intel Core i7 “Gulftown Extreme,” 6-cores, 8MB L3 (3.33GHz)
1GB GDDR3 Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M
12Gb DDR3-1333 PC-10600 SDRAM
(2) 512Gb Toshiba Solid State Drive: MLC NAND 43nm, SATA-300
4GB Intel Turbo Memory 2.0
Panasonic 2x Blu-Ray Writer & 8x DVD-RW
3 Megapixel Webcam, Bluetooth, Wireless A/B/G/N
12-cell Battery, TV-tuner, and 3-year warranty with tech support
Note that there are no OS included. They probably figured only a real tech junkie would want to buy this and would end up installing his prefered version of Linux.
Here is a benchmark form Tom’s Hardware just for a little apetizer of what you could expect form this laptop.
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This is awesome benchmarks but we at the cost its probably not worth it. In time Hex Core Laptops will become more mainstream. One thing that will definitely need a breakthrough is laptop batteries. The are already having a tough time with quad core laptops. We are looking forward to the release of the Intel 6 core i9 later this year. This should be a real revolution in laptop processing power.
Posted on March 12th, 2010 | by admin
The Lenovo Essential Family is a category of laptops that are mostly intended for business usage, although one member of the family is also capable of functions that are intended for gaming, which requires more powerful features. In any case, being a family, all the members share some common features.
One such feature is the processor. All members of the Essential family are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, each running at an average speed clocked at 2.0 GHz. Five units run at a processor speed of 2.20 GHz, while the other two are running at a speed of 2.10 GHz. In any case, these speeds are all good enough for multi-tasking. Being mostly laptops designed for business and everyday usage, multi-tasking is very important so users can finish their tasks quickly and efficiently. All of them also have fat memory spaces. Majority of the laptops have 4 gigabytes for RAM, but two models are different with 2 GB and 3 GB RAM spaces.
The Essential laptops come in two sizes: 15-inches and 14 inches. All LCD screens for the Lenovo Essential familiy laptops are widescreen, and all of them have the native resolution of 1366×768. this resolution is very favorable towards multi-tasking, especially when one needs to open and look at one or more windows simultaneously. They can do so by stacking window after window beside each other for quick reference while working. Regardless of sizes, however, all LCD displays in the Essential family are backlit by light-emitting diodes.
Majority of the Essential family laptops are weak when it comes to the graphics part. Five models are given only integrated graphics media accelerators from Intel. However, one unit stands out – the Lenovo G450 – 2949CGU – because it has a dedicated graphics card with 512 megabytes to spare for graphics processing: the Nvidia GeForce G 210M. Of all the Lenovo Essential laptops, this model alone is able to function both for normal computing as well as for heavy graphics processing. Other members of the family are limited to basic computing purposes like word processing as well as some light gaming in the side.
Hard disk capacity also varies for the members of the Essential family of laptops. Most of the laptops have 320 gigabytes of hard disk available for its users, but the G550 – 2958R6U and the G550 – 2958HHU have 250 GB and 160 GB, respectively.
Let us now look at the individual members of the Essential family of laptops from Lenovo.
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Posted on February 12th, 2010 | by admin
The Intel Core i7 laptop line is the latest addition to Intel’s growing number of powerful mobile processors. Tagged as the latest in mobile processor technology, the Intel Core i7 is intended to update the company’s Core 2 brand.
All of Intel Core i7 processors are quad-cores, which means four cores are working in this notebook processor. This type of processor has certain advantages, including its ability to tackle several applications at the same time and process heavy programs at ease.
The Intel Core i7 laptop processors are featured with Intel Turbo Boost technology and Hyper-Threading technologies. The Turbo Boost technology allows Core i7 mobile processors to run at greater clock speed when bumping into demanding applications. This technology automatically accelerates the processor’s performance when the user wants and needs it. The Hyper-Threading technology, meanwhile, enables highly threaded applications to be opened in parallel. This is great news to people who love multi-tasking.
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Posted on February 1st, 2010 | by admin
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Today’s laptop technology has really improved from the 386 laptops of the prior years to the multi-core notebook technology of today. These multi-core laptops for isntance a core i5 laptop are known for their great efficiency and improved performance over the single core processors that have been the norm of yesteryears. To describe their functioning, it is best to think of one laptop processor divided into many different subprocessors. That’s what where the name came from: each subprocessor is called a “core.”
The first multi-core to arrive was the Dual Core technology, spearheaded by the Pentium Dual Core by Intel and the subsequent ones by AMD. Through time, the technology was constantly improved until the quad cores or 4-core processors came out, followed by the “i” Cores. The Core i5 laptop CPU then came in and impressed many with its power; however, it is still a notch lower than the ultimate “smart” processor: the Intel Core i7.
The Core i5 laptop will have at least 2 cores and at most 4 cores.
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Posted on January 10th, 2010 | by admin
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A year ago people where asking, quad core laptop or duo core laptop. Things have moved on and the current, latest and greatest, is Core i7 laptops. The Intel Core i7 is the successor to the Intel Core 2 brand. The current models still use 4 cores so it is still technically quad core laptops, but will soon utilize up to 6 cores, all of them hyper threaded.
The geek stuff.
The mobile version of the Core i7 has 6-8 MiB of layer 3 cache. It uses a uPGA-989 socket with minim feature size of 42 nm. The TDP is 45-55 W.
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 | by admin
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The HP Compaq Presario series is a line of business laptops that have been produced by Compaq. It is currently made up of three models: the CQ20, the CQ40 and the CQ60. For this review, let us look at the series as a whole as well as take a quick peek at what each unit has to offer the consumer.
Clearly, Compaq has intended this series to appeal more to the businessman or the student rather than the gamer. These people need processing power that will allow them to finish work quickly. They cannot afford lags as these are people that are always constrained by time requirements and tight deadlines. As such, they are all powered by an Intel Centrino 2 GHz P7350 Core2Duo processor. Though a little older than the next-generation Core i7 processor technology, the Core 2 Duo processor can still hold its own and is powerful enough in its own right. In other words, the HP Compaq Presario series still promises a satisfactory performance in multi-tasking and multi-threading even with memory hungry applications. This power is backed by a fat memory bank of 2 gigabytes.
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Posted on January 1st, 2010 | by admin
The Dell Studio series was created in part to blast misconceptions that specs of laptops are set in stone and that they have similar appearances. People clamor for personalization, which also translates to what they prefer in a computer or laptop.
Fortunately Dell has heard everyone’s clamor. The company has paid close attention to the buzz in its own forums, and other community forums frequented by computer users. Because of all the discussion about the need for a customizable laptop, Dell has developed the Studio series specifically to answer those claims.
True enough, the series has a flair for the personal melodrama that each computer user has. Dell offers these laptops in many colors. Of course, the aesthetics of each unit are not the focus. Each Studio model is powered by a “muscled” processor from Intel, from Core2Duo to the next-generation Core i7 processor technologies. Each Studio unit may also store up to 4 gigabytes of random access memory to support the powerful features of the processor.
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Posted on December 15th, 2009 | by admin
One of the concerns that most users think about when selecting a new laptop to buy is the thickness or width of the device. The thickness decides how much space the laptop is going to consume, and is very important especially when traveling. Though most laptops have their own individual carrying case, some users do stuff their notebook in together with their clothes.
So, the thinner the laptop is, the greater the space it can save. Asus has recognized these concerns and has come up with some of the thinnest laptops there are in the market: the Asus UX series.
Indeed, thin is the middle name of the Asus UX series. With a thickness of only 1.2 inches at most, these laptops will be ideal for your traveling needs. You can easily stuff them among clothing – nothing heavy though as this will damage the laptop – or you can use a smaller carrying case. This means that you can carry these devices around easily without a problem, as opposed to the larger and thicker laptops that you can find in the market. They also are very light as well, weighing at least 3.5 pounds depending on the configuration.
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Posted on December 14th, 2009 | by admin
The netbook craze started a few years ago when Asus spearheaded the marketing of smaller laptops that weighs just a few pounds and measures just enough to fit within a small suitcase or even a backpack.
A netbook retains certain laptop features like Internet connectivity and basic mobile computing. It fits the needs of a travel-hungry computer user just as well as it fits in a small luggage. More importantly, most netbooks come at prices below $400, which can easily fit anyone’s budget.
With netbooks dominating the mobile PC market despite the worldwide economic downturn, computer manufacturers have started venturing into creating faster and bigger capacity small thinking machines.
Aside from the absence of an optical drive, a prevalent disadvantage of a netbook is its lack of storage space. It is understandable that netbooks’ disk space is only a fraction of laptops and notebooks since bulky data download and large file storage are usually done not on the run. The general public would rather have cheap but very portable PCs that contain the essentials rather than bring expensive laptops that serve as desktop replacement or gaming machines or graphic editors.
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Posted on November 29th, 2009 | by admin
The Travelmate series by Acer is quite a prolific line of business notebooks. To date, more than 10 models have been released to the public.
One of the commonalities shared by the entire Travelmate line is the use of integrated graphics cards. These cards seriously hamper the performance of the notebooks in the graphics section, making these business laptops and not heavy gaming. One cannot expect these notebooks to fare well especially with games that use 3D graphics because the Travelmates simply cannot process that.
The Travelmate notebooks are also fitted with fingerprint readers. This is important for data security, since some companies have sensitive proprietary data that must not be leaked to the public. These computers also have the proprietary Disk Anti-Shock Protection: this feature senses if the notebook is on free fall, and automatically shuts down the disks. This is to prevent or minimize data loss, a feature that businesses would surely value.
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