Archive for August, 2005

About the AMD laptop heat problem

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

The Sun Herald published an article named “AMD laptop has heat problem” that talks about the laptops based on the AMD Turion 64 processor. The Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Special Edition L2000 “LiveStrong” notebook is used for testing. While watching movies with the notebook on my lap, my legs got uncomfortably warm and sweaty. It’s a problem […]

ACECAD DigiMemo A501 Reviews

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

ACECAD DigiMemo A501 is a digital paper and pen handwriting storage and recognition solution. The DigiMemo A501 is a stand-alone device with storage capability that digitally captures and stores everything you write or draw with ink on ordinary paper, without the use of computer and special paper. Then you can easily view, edit, organize and […]

Gateway 8510GZ 17 inch display notebook

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

8510GZ notebook :Gateway’s first notebook with a 17-inch Cinematic Widescreen One of the latest laptop model from Gateway is the Gateway 8510GZ Notebook. Gateway 8510GZ is powered by Intel® Pentium® M processor 740 with 533 MHz FSB, 512 MB Dual Channel DDR2 memory, and Intel Centrino® Mobile Technology. Based on Intel 915 chipset, it features […]

New Acer Aspire 5020 Review

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

There is a new Acer Aspire 5020 Review from Notebook Review. The actual model reviewed is the Acer 5021 WLMi. The Acer Aspire 5020 series includes these models: Aspire 5021NWLCi, Aspire 5021WLCi , Aspire 5022WLMi. Acer Aspire 5020 – Acer 5021 WLMi Specifications (for the reviewed Acer Apire 5020 laptop series) AMD Turion 64 ML28 […]

Lenovo’s Profit Rises After IBM Takeover

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Here are some good news for IBM ThinkPad laptops fans (actually now are Lenovo ThinkPad laptops I think). Bloomberg reports that Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s biggest computer maker, posted an unexpected gain in first-quarter profit after buying International Business Machines Corp.’s personal- computer business: Net income rose to HK$357 million ($46 million), or 4.12 Hong […]

Laptop shopping advice

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

There is a nice article called Study this ‘laptop list’ before buying on Palm Beach Daily News. The article offers advice for people trying to buy a laptop, which in the writer’s opinion is a “necessary evil”. Well, he’s not a laptop fan, but the article is pretty nice. Here is a sample : “• […]

Opinion about HP Compaq V2000

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

If you are interested of a Compaq presario V2000 review from an actual user, here is what Mrs Geekyinfo recently wrote about the HP Compaq V2000: The requirements of the a new laptop: “My main requirements for a notebook was that it would be as light and compact as possible to allow for lugging it […]

LinuxCertified LC2464 64-bit Linux Laptop Review

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

If you are going after a Linux Powered Laptop here is a Linux Laptop from LaptopCertified. Even more interesting, the LinuxCertified LC2464 is a 64-bit Linux Laptop as it is powered by the AMD Athlon64 Mobile 2800+ with 1MB of L2 Cache and 800 MHz FSB (and upgradable to Athlon64 Mobile 3400+ processor). This Linux […]

Good Time to Buy A Low-end Laptop

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Or at least this is what PC World recommends: “If you’re willing to file those rebate papers, you can pay less than $500 at many major retailers this month. Individual vendors previously dipped below the $500 mark with low-end notebooks this year but currently four major retailers as well as PC market leader Dell all […]

HP Compaq nx6110 Review from LaptopMag

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Compaq nx6110 notebook from HP is powered by Intel® Pentium® M processors or Intel® Celeron® M processors and features a 15.0-inch XGA display (1024 x 768 resolution and 16 M colors) or 15.0-inch SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 resolution and 16 M colors) and Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900, up to 128-MB shared system memory. HP […]