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The touchpad has acceptable responsiveness but we’ve seen better on other business notebooks. The fingerprint reader sits right in-between the two mouse buttons on the bottom, but we found ourselves accidentally activating the fingerprint reader on more than one occasion. Additionally, two wider mouse buttons are placed at the top of the touchpad. Fujitsu offers an option for a “Quick Point” touch-stick pointer with this notebook, but it’s just odd to see the dual-button setup on our review model since it doesn’t have the touchpoint.

The E8410 contains an impressive array of ports that provide both forwards and backwards compatibility with old and new hardware … an excellent feature for IT departments within huge companies that have a ton of old hardware. I was happiest to see the E8410 includes both a PCMCIA and ExpressCard slot!Battery life was pretty impressive. During the review period we ran the battery down to zero several times. For my timed tests, the WiFi was on, the screen was at 50% brightness, and Vista was on the “Balanced” power profile. The laptop stayed on for 4 hours and 12 minutes before forced hibernation at 5% battery remaining. If you configure this notebook with the available 8-cell battery and or second battery in the modular bay I believe a mobile employee could work online for most of the workday on battery power.

One of the nicer things about the E8410 in terms of its place in a work environment is noise, or lack thereof. This notebook is whisper quiet. During general usage, the cooling fan is barely audible over background noise. The loudest sound came from the hard drive as the computer needed to access data, but even then the hard drive wasn’t particularly loud.The fan did speed up during benchmarking but that is to be expected. The laptop was noticeably warmer on the surface, but both heat and noise were kept at or below tolerable levels.

As for the build quality itself, the notebook is quite solid. There is no noticeable flex on most of the chassis. Nevertheless, the chassis has “weak” spots around where the LCD meets the body. But even the flex there is no where near the flex I have felt on Gateways and Compaqs I have played around with at Office Depot. With normal pressure, there are no ripples on the LCD, though with slightly above average pressure, you can produce ripples on the upper-right hand corner. Regarding the hinges, they are quite stiff, though if I shake the notebook a little, there is a small amount of wobbling of the LCD. The only real problem that I have with the build quality is that, although nothing seems to be moving, the chassis and hinges creak.

If you look at the bottom of the notebook, you find the RAM compartment where the Windows product code is found. The area covered by the felt is where the HD is. The battery does not attach to the back of the notebook like some batteries do. Instead, it is found on bottom of the notebook on the upper right corner. That small piece of plastic at the upper edge of the bottom held in place by two silver screws is where the built-in tv tuner would be if you purchased that option.Admittedly, I am not a screen buff. I don’t know what makes a screen “incredible”. However, in my humble opinion, I find the screen to be quite nice. The WXGA resolution may be a bit big for some, but for me it was just right. When you go to battery power, the notebook automatically reduces down to two notches of brightness, and even at lowest brightness, the screen is still readable. Below is an image of the screen on the lowest brightness setting.

When I compared the screen with my matte 19” acer lcd with the same brightness and a higher contrast ratio, I could see the difference in quality. The white looked whiter to me, and even text seemed slightly crisper on the N3530. Also, the Fujitsu screen seemed to be able to detect the light blue background for the most popular laptop poll and the laptop search box, while my desktop monitor doesn’t.This notebook also has good horizontal and vertical viewing angles. Though there is darkening and lightening, the screen is viewable even at extreme angles. The images make the darkening and lightening more extreme than they actually are.It is worth mentioning that there is negligible light leakage on the bottom of the notebook. I had trouble capturing it with my camera, so I apologize for not posting a picture.

Again, I am no audio aficionado, so I don’t know how valid my opinion is. The audio is definitely a step up from my old Clevo, from which I could barely hear anything at the highest volume setting. I like the fact that it has a lot of notches for the volume, so that you can have more variety in your volume settings. However, the highest volume setting is lower than I would expect it to be. Also, as the other N3530 reviewer, mach_zero, aptly noted, the placing of the speakers is both good and bad. If you are not typing and listening to something, the speakers will be slightly louder because they are close to you. Unfortunately, while typing, the sound is often muffled. Anyway, I would recommend headphones/earphones for any notebook owner.

This system is noticeably snappier than my old notebook (2.0 ghz Pentium 4, 40 GB 4200rpm HD, 512 MB ram). The time it takes to get from pressing power to the password screen in Windows is about 37 seconds. When I opened pdf files on my old computer, it would take forever to open, and sometimes it would crash Adobe. Now, with the N3530, pdfs load faster, and Adobe has yet to stall on me.

I was curious about how different drivers would affect the 3DMark05 scores. The stock drivers were the ATI Catalyst 6.5 drivers. When I updated to the 6.10 drivers, there was a slight increase in marks. The newest Omega drivers yield a tad more marks than the 6.10 Catalyst drivers. I wanted to check out something less main stream, so I also tried out the DHzeropoint drivers. Astonishingly, even though they are based on the 6.9 Catalyst drivers like the Omegas, they yielded almost 250 marks less than the stock driver! Suffice to say, that’s probably why they are not as well-known as Omega drivers.

The lid is made of silver-colored magnesium alloy, not the plastic of so many notebooks. The hinges feel very sturdy, but there is some lid flex. If you press down on the lid, it goes in a little because there’s a small gap between the lid and keyboard when closed. Despite the lid flex, there are absolutely no ripples on the screen when you open the lid again.The keyboard is a very light gray color. The touchpad is slightly left of center. There is no palm rest flex at all. Above the keyboard are the speakers, power button, four programmable shortcut buttons, and the battery indicator. [S7020D: Rather than the four programmable buttons by the power button, the S7020D features buttons similar to those on the S6231.] On the right side is a slot where you can put the CD/DVD drive, a second hard drive, a second battery, or nothing except a weight saver. For detailed pictures of the sides, see the “Input and Output Ports” section below.The bottom has some felt patches to prevent the notebook from slipping. I also think these felt pads provide a better feel for when the notebook is on your lap.

The noise produced by this notebook may be a problem for some. I use my notebook while watching television, and sometimes I can hear the fans over the volume of the television when they go into high gear. Also, when I use the optical drive, the spinning gives off a noisy whir and causes the notebook to vibrate. I wouldn’t recommend using this notebook in quiet areas like libraries or in classes.Despite these two problems, I still unconditionally recommend Portable One and wouldn’t hesitate to buy from them again. The people there are so accessible and willing to help. But most of all, I was impressed by their integrity. I called up and asked how big a performance difference I would see by upgrading from 1.6 to 1.8GHz. Rather than seeing an opportunity to make more money, they told me that it would amount to only about a 10% difference, and with the usage I described, it probably wouldn’t be worth the extra $150. They never tried to push anything else on me, like an extended warranty, accessories, or upgrades, unlike the big retailers (Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, etc.).

My total came to $1529, with free shipping. NewEgg seems to have lower prices, but you don’t have the option of customizing; cannot return the computer, only exchange it for the same model if it’s defective; and must have at least 7 dead pixels to get a replacement. In addition, all the configurations available from NewEgg are on the low end. An identically configured model on the Fujitsu website cost more than $100 more, and you cannot return custom-configured notebooks. Given these factors, and the excellent customer service, I’d say $1529 was a more than fair price.

The most disappointing aspect of this notebook would be the keyboard and touchpad. The keyboard is not the most comfortable to type on. The key stroke seems deeper to me compared to the Latitude D600 keyboard I have been using. Moreover, the keys seem to give a bit of positive feedback when you type, so every once in awhile, you think you typed in something but the keystroke doesn’t register. Another flaw is that the keys are very “clicky-clacky”, so again, can be noisy for quiet areas. Nevertheless, the keyboard has one plus. There is negligible flex on the keyboard that in no way affects your typing. Even with its shortcomings, you eventually get used to typing on it.

Port placement is one of the positives of this notebook. It has 4 USB ports, but one of the ports is on the left side. This makes it convenient for plugging in USB drives or other USB devices that you insert and remove often. Also, there are no ports on the right side, making things less crowded for using an external mouse (if you’re right-handed anyway). I also like how the headphone ports are on the left side instead of the front, because it would stick into my stomach when using the notebook on my lap. One thing that makes the n3530 rather unique is that it has both a pcmcia slot and an express slot. Most notebooks have one or the other. This computer has pretty much every port I need (e.g. firewire, memory card, s-video). Some may be unhappy that it lacks a DVI port, though it is of no consequence to me.The first time I booted this notebook, I had a problem connecting to my wireless network. Ever since that first reboot, I have not had a problem. I get excellent signal strength throughout my apartment that has lead paint on the walls.The biggest drainage on battery life comes from the screen and WiFi. Once again I really appreciate the “silent” feature which further underclocks the processor, while still remaining quick enough to do most tasks.

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"Dell?ranked No.1 PC vendor in the commercial segment and No.2 in the consumer segment," the US-based company said in a statement on Monday, quoting from IDC India PC market tracker for the quarter (Q4).

Dell's India subsidiary posted 54 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth in unit shipments and 6.6 percent YoY share across segments in the last quarter of 2014.

For a long time now, if you’ve been looking for the very best in slim, light laptops, you’ve had to turn - however reluctantly - to Apple. With great battery life, top quality displays, zippy performance that doesn’t deteriorate over time and cutting edge design, its laptops have delivered every time. But the challenge from Windows portables is steadily growing, and Dell’s latest laptop - the Dell XPS 13 - aims to overtake Apple and pull ahead. See also: what are 2015's best laptops?

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review - from side, half closed

From a design perspective, Dell has got it nailed. The laptop’s lid and base are finished in silky smooth aluminium that feels stiff enough to survive a nuclear strike - or at the very least being sat on on the sofa. The keyboard surround is clad in a sumptuous, soft-touch carbon-fibre effect plastic, and despite the bombproof build, the whole thing is very light, weighing a mere 1.27kg. That’s a smidge lighter than the MacBook Pro 13 with Retina display.

It outdoes the Cupertino crew on practicality, too, with two long rubber feet stretching across the width of the underside of the chassis, giving it a grippy footing on a desk or your lap, and an LED battery capacity indicator on left edge, activated by pressing a small button.

The keyboard is decent: it’s backlit, and has a light yet positive action, and we like the touchpad as well. It’s accurate and, for those who prefer clicking to tapping, the integrated buttons work without fuss. The only small complaint we’d have, from an ergonomic perspective, is the half-height Enter key, but we dare say we’d get used to this in time.

"We have witnessed the CSB segment charting a growth trajectory due to our focus on being present across market tiers and our efforts to align with our customers," he said.

Focus on customer requirements and channel partner engagement has been driving the company's commercial business growth.

"In the commercial segment, we have been concentrating on delivering solutions to customers and fit needs of evolving enterprises," Krishnakumar said.

As Dell remains focused on customers' technology needs in consumer and commercial space, its objective to empower a knowledge economy such as India will sustain to expand in tier 3-5 markets.

"Our commercial PC devices are designed to meet specific requirements of customers across verticals. Customer engagement has been at the core of our dealing with end-users to understand their requirements from technology solutions," Dell India director Indrajit Belgundi said.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review - from above, looking down on keyboard
Dell XPS 13 review: screen quality

The real attraction of the XPS 13 is its so-called infinity touchscreen, which sees the bezel reduced to a width of a mere 5mm to the left, right and above the screen, producing a machine that, in terms of its overall size, feels more like an 11in laptop than a 13in one.

Indeed, its dimensions of 304 x 200 x 20.7mm are closer to those of a MacBook Air 11in (300 x 192 x 17mm) than its real rival, the MacBook Pro 13. The latter is 14mm wider, 19mm deeper and 310g heavier than the Dell XPS 13. Dell has certainly done sterling work in squeezing the screen into less space.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review - from front
On first impression, the quality of the IPS panel used looks pretty good, too. The QHD+ resolution of 3,200 x 1,800 means everything looks incredibly sharp. (As always, though, do bear in mind that legacy software that hasn’t been optimised for high-DPI screens may be very fiddly, with miniscule buttons and tiny text.)

It’s exceedingly bright, reaching up to 385cd/m2, while the black level dips down as low as 0.15cd/m2 with the brightness settings pushed to maximum. Taken at face value, these numbers are extraordinary. But the reality is, however, somewhat less impressive: Dell employs aggressive dynamic contrast to brighten the display when the screen image is light, and to dim the backlight when the onscreen content is dark.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review - from front, open
In fact, the XPS 13’s screen delivers a contrast ratio of 1,076:1. That’s absolutely fine, but what isn’t acceptable is that the dynamic contrast cannot be be disabled: essentially, you’re stuck with a screen that brightens and darkens noticeably when the screen content changes, something that’s been annoying enough for some customers in the US (where the XPS 13 has been available for a while) to send their laptops back.

More seriously, it makes it impossible to use the Dell XPS 13 as a colour-critical photo editing tool, since you’re never certain of the level of your backlight. And we were none too impressed with the consistency of that backlight, either. On our sample the panel was noticeably brighter in the top-left corner than elsewhere, and afflicted by visible backlight leakage in the bottom corners. For a machine costing this much, that simply isn’t acceptable.

Dell XPS 13 review: performance and specs

It’s a huge shame, since elsewhere the Dell XPS 13 is a perfectly capable ultraportable. Every model in the range employs Intel’s latest 14nm Broadwell CPUs, from the entry level ￡875 Core i5 model to the range-topping, ￡1,271 2.6GHz Core i7-5600U specification.

We were sent the slightly less expensive 2.4GHz Core i7-5500U model for our testing, and it performed admirably, achieving an overall score of 0.7 in the PC Pro Real World Benchmarks. That’s a fraction slower than the Asus Zenbook UX303LA, which has the same CPU, but the difference is small enough to be academic. We’re none too keen on the rather whiny fan, though, which kicks in with great gusto as soon as you push the processor hard.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review - from rear with the lid open
Still, it’s enough horsepower to run all but the most demanding creative applications without slowing down, and the rest of the specification is up to the mark as well. There’s 8GB of RAM and a 256GB Samsung PM851 M.2 SSD for storage, which is reasonably quick, gaining sequential read and writes speeds of 514MB/sec and 231MB/sec in AS SSD. It isn’t a patch on the MacBook Pro 13in’s drive, however, which reached speeds of 723MB/sec and 616MB/sec for sequential reads and writes.

Elsewhere, Intel’s integrated GPUs keep improving, so should you want to indulge in a little out of hours gaming, you’ll find the Dell XPS 13’s Intel HD Graphics 5500 more than capable. You won’t be gaming smoothly at the native resolution of the 3,200 x 1,800 display, or even at Full HD, but drop the resolution and details settings further down and you’ll be fine.

The XPS 13 achieved framerates of 44fps, 27fps and 4.9fps in our Low (1,366 x 768), Medium (1,600 x 900) and High quality (1,920 x 1,080) Crysis tests - that’s easily enough grunt for a little light gaming on the side.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review: battery life and connectivity

Where the new, super-efficient 14nm processor ought to make its presence fully felt is battery life, but here we weren’t blown away. It lasted 11hrs 16mins our light-use test, only marginally better than the last-generation, Haswell-based MacBook Pro 13 with Retina, and a long way behind the Asus Zenbook UX303LA, which kept on trucking for 13hrs 6mins. Still, anything over ten hours in this test for a laptop with this much power is good.

Connectivity is more disappointing, however, with only two USB 3 ports, a mini-DisplayPort out for video, an SD card slot and a 3.5mm headset jack, plus no Ethernet port of any description. We suppose we shouldn’t complain too much when Apple’s latest MacBook includes only one USB Type-C connector, but then wireless isn’t all that impressive either, with 2x2 stream 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4LE, but no 4G option.

Dell XPS 13 (2015) review - from the side with the lid open
Dell XPS 13 review: verdict

To tell the story of Dell’s XPS 13 is to relate a story of what might have been. It’s a stunning design, of that there’s no denying: it’s attractive, beautifully built and practical, and Dell has squeezed into this glamorous chassis a 13in laptop that’s closer to most 11in portables in overall dimensions.

But it’s a laptop that’s beset by little niggles, none more disappointing than the infinity display, which is meant to be the star of the show. If all you want is a fast Windows laptop with a bright screen, and you don’t care about colour accuracy, it’s a fantastic piece of kit. But it isn’t all that we were hoping for.

"With 25.6 percent YoY growth in the commercial segment spanning notebooks and workstations and 7.5 percent YoY growth in the consumer and small business (CSB) segment, the subsidiary achieved the highest ever annual share gain," Dell India vice president P. Krishnakumar said.

The company's initiatives to post growth in all four quarters of 2014 included a simplified product lineup, renewed go-to-market strategy, an intensified channel engagement programme and deeper customer engagement.

"A sequential share growth over the past nine quarters is a testimony to our focus on meeting customers' needs through technology and expanding our presence in tier three-five cities through online and offline engagement," he said.

The company's retail expansion led to setting up of 400 exclusive stores in the last 18 months from 50 stores and channel presence in about 1,000 cities across the country.

Global personal computers vendor Dell ranked top in shipments and sale of PCs, notebooks and workstations in the fourth quarter (October-December) of the calendar year 2014, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

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The M3800 ships with Ubuntu, which it works great with. But, as a Linux nerd, I needed to know how well this piece of hardware ran with the other Linux distros I'm likely to use. So I installed openSUSE. And elementary. And Fedora. Every single system ran great with absolutely zero issues. Not once did I need to go hunting on a forum for details on how to get my Wi-Fi (etc.) working. Out of the box this laptop supports Linux, in general, incredibly well.

Which makes me happy.

One (slightly weird) quirk worth mentioning: This unit has no built-in Ethernet port. It ships with a USB-to-Ethernet dongle that worked well when I tested it (admittedly, that test was simply to see if it worked before reverting back to Wi-Fi… which is what I usually use anyway). I'm not sure if I think this is a problem or a great feature. I don't usually plug into an Ethernet network very often… so I suppose… it's a good thing?

The Display

Let's talk a bit more about this display, because it's fairly ridiculous. In a good way.

It turns out having a full "4K" screen packed into only 15.6 inches makes for some serious pixel density. Which is amazing for all the same reasons that having an Ultra-HD/4K TV is amazing. You can play four 1080p videos, simultaneously, tiled in a grid. How crazy is that?

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But this resolution, in this size of a screen, also has a major downside: Some stuff just gets too damned small.

I installed a number of different desktop environments in my trials with the M3800 and found that some of them were almost completely unusable due to how astoundingly small the user interface elements were rendered.

MATE (the fork of GNOME 2), for example, was pretty brutal to use. Simply clicking on the items in the status bar was a non-trivial challenge – even the text on the buttons were difficult to read. If I put my face right up against the screen I could see how clear and crisp these elements were displayed, but with your face at a reasonable distance from the screen, the user interface items were downright miniscule.

And don't even ask me about how maddening it can be to resize a window on an older desktop environment like MATE on this screen. Trying to get your mouse cursor positioned right on the window border is enough to drive a man to the brink of insanity.

That said, I don't think I'd consider this a failing of the M3800's screen. More simply, it's just the fact that many pieces of software (and desktop environments) don't handle resolution independence as effectively as they could.

Some noteworthy exceptions: Ubuntu's Unity environment and GNOME Shell. Both handled this ultra-high resolution exceptionally well and provided a great example of how beautiful the rendering can be on both. KDE as well, after a little bit of tweaking, scaled very nicely to this resolution. As did Enlightenment (E19). All four of those environments proved to be great options for a screen like this. MATE, Xfce and LXDE – which are all a bit more "old school" – weren't really usable at all.

Again, while I don't consider this a downfall of the M3800 (quite the opposite), it is certainly something to bear in mind if you are considering picking one up. If you're not happy unless you're running the Xfce desktop environment... then you need a different laptop.

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The Form Factor

The M3800 is made up of a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber – it's sturdy, and even the plastic parts have a good feel to them. It's a bit big and heavy (a hair over 4 lbs) to carry around with you, but not so much so that it feels clunky or cumbersome.

Its lines are sleek and it's a bit thinner than you'd expect considering the specs. When you pick it up by the sides it doesn't bend or creak in the slightest. It feels… well made.

But there is a problem.

The trackpad. I don't love it. It's big and high-quality feeling… which is good. But it's not my favorite trackpad ever. Button clicks just didn't register with a reassuring "click" like I typically like. Luckily, this laptop also has a touchscreen, which helped a little by providing an extra means of clicking. But I didn't feel that either input method provided me with the accuracy I often needed. Which means I ended up plugging in a USB mouse a lot of the time. Not the end of the world – and certainly not the first laptop to have this issue – but worth noting. The trackpad is good enough for usage here and there, but not for long stretches of precision mouse manipulation. What can I say? I'm picky about my trackpads.

Now, on to something good. The keyboard.

It is fantastic. The key spacing, the feel of the keys themselves, the shape of the keys (they have subtle curves in the tops)… it's all excellent. I wouldn't call this the best keyboard I've ever used on any computer, but it might be in the running for the best keyboard on a laptop. And that's saying something (I'm even pickier about my keyboards than I am about my trackpads). In fact, I'd say the high quality of the keyboard more than makes up for the shortcomings of the trackpad.

And there's one touch on the keyboard that I found to be absolutely awesome.

The font. I don't normally think much about the font used on keyboards, but this one really jumped out at me. It's this Sci-Fi-looking, almost pseudo-Star Trek inspired font that makes the system look like it's from the 23rd century. Opening the lid to reveal this slightly space age-looking keyboard (with nice back lighting) makes for a great first impression. It's a little touch, but I love it.

The Verdict

This is not a Chromebook. This is, in fact, the polar opposite of a Chromebook.

It is (comparatively) expensive. It's big. It's not feather-light (about 4 lbs), though quite a bit lighter than you expect it to be considering the size. It's powerful as hell. The battery life isn't anything to write home about (about 4 hours of really intensive use, including gaming) which means you won't want to be far away from a power outlet.

And… I really dig it. I don't believe I've ever been as impressed with the visual quality of Linux (as a desktop operating system) as I was when I ran GNOME Shell on the M3800. This, right here, is a "show off" machine. If I were to bring this to a Linux conference and set it up on a table… it would draw attention.
Almost two years ago, we closed out our review of Dell’s first Linux-powered Developer Edition laptop with some words of wisdom from my former uber-sysadmin mentor, a fellow named Rick, with whom I worked at Boeing for many, many years. Rick is now retired and living the life of an itinerant world-traveling SCUBA master, but he’s been hacking on Linux since around the time Linus first dropped the kernel on comp.os.minix. I lamented to Rick that I was having a hard time coming up with an angle or hook for the XPS 13 Developer Edition, because it all just worked—Dell got it right, and it was a great piece of kit. It was maybe even a bit boring.

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Ein 16 GB groer Flash-Speicher kann mittels microSD-Karten um 32 GB erweitert werden. Die frontseitige Kamera fr Videotelefonie und Schnappschssen bietet 1,9-Megapixel, whrend die rckseitige Hauptkamera des Blackberry Z10 einen 8-Megapixel Sensor verbaut hat. Bei einer Gehusedicke von 8 Millimetern misst das Testgert 129 x 65 Millimeter und wiegt etwa 125 Gramm. Zu den Verbindungsmglichkeiten zhlen WLAN 802.11 b/g/n, GSM und Bluetooth. Neben einen microUSB-Anschluss steht auch eine microHDMI-Schnitstelle bereit um Bildschirminhalte auf einen Monitor zu bertragen. Laut den Testern hat der 2.100 mAh starke Akku genug Kapazitten, um einen Arbeitstag zu berstehen. Die sterreichischen Kollegen sttzten sich dabei auf Quellen aus dem Norden Europas.
Die Kollegen von mobilegeeks.de haben anscheinend einen Tipp zum Erscheinungstermin des neuen HTC M7 Flaggschiffs bekommen. Fr die Vorstellung wird der 19. Februar vermutet, verfgbar wird das 4,7 Zoll Android Smartphone ab dem 4. Mrz.

Es verbindet einen stromsparenden Intel Core i3-3217U Prozessor mit einer flotten SSD in einem hochwertigen Gehuse. Es ist bereits seit einiger Zeit auf dem Markt, doch nun ist es exklusiv im Sony Online Store in der Farbe Silber Metallic erhltlich. Der tragbare Sony VAIO Tap 20 Touch-PC kann als vollwertiger Desktop Ersatz genutzt werden und kostet mindestens 999 Euro. Das Sony VAIO SVE14A3M2ES ist ein neues Lifestyle-Notebook mit Touchsdisplay und wird ab Mrz 2013 zu einem Preis ab 699 Euro verkauft. Kunden, die Modelle ohne Touchscreen bevorzugen, knnen zur VAIO E-Serie 17 greifen, die sich mit einer Displaygre von 17,3 Zoll als Desktop-Replacement fr zu Hause anbieten. Neu sind auch vier Einstiegsmodell der VAIO S-Serie 13, zwei neue leistungsstarke Highend-Notebooks der S-Serie 13A und vier Modelle der S-Serie 15, die fr den professionellen Einsatz gedacht sind. Lenovo prsentierte auf der CES 2013 mit dem IdeaTab Lynx ein Tablet mit vollwertigem Windows 8 Betriebssystem und einem optionalen Tastatur-Dock, in dem ein Extra-Akku eingelassen ist. Das 11,6 Zoll Tablet ist ab sofort auch in Deutschland erhltlich.

Langsam aber sicher wchst die Zahl der Tablets mit vollwertigem Windows 8 Betriebssystem. Nachdem viele Hersteller darauf verzichtet haben Modelle mit Windows RT zu fertigen, bringt Lenovo nun mit dem IdeaTab Lynx ein 11,6 Zoll Tablet auf den Markt, welches deutlich gnstiger ist als das Konkurrenzprodukt in Form des Microsoft Surface Pro. Es bietet ein 11,6 Zoll groes IPS-Display mit einer nativen Auflsung von 1.366 x 768 Pixel. Fr den Antrieb sorgt ein Intel Atom Z2760 Dual-Core Prozessor mit 1,8 GHz Taktfrequenz und 2 GB Arbeitsspeicher. Der interne Speicher mit 64 GB lsst sich nachtrglich ber einen microSD-Kartenslot um bis zu 64 GB erweitern.

Am Tablet selbst ist ein USB- und microHDMI-Anschluss vorhanden. WLAN 802.11n und Bluetooth 4.0 stehen zur Verfgung. Mit 667 Gramm ist es recht leicht, aber mit dem optionalen Accutype Keyboarddock steigt das Gewicht auf 1,35 Kilogramm. Das Dock erweitert das Anschlussangebot um zwei USB Ports und der Zusatzakku verdoppelt die Laufzeit auf bis zu 16 Stunden. Das Modell ist ab sofort zu einem Preis von knapp 600 Euro erhltlich. Das Dock alleine kostet 150 Euro und im Bundle mit dem Tablet 700 Euro.
Via Twitter kamen vor wenigen Stunden neue Informationen rund um das Facebook-Smartphone HTC Myst zum Vorschein. Es soll sich um ein Mittelklasse-Gert mit 4,3 Zoll Display und Dual-Core Prozessor handeln. Eine Besttigung seitens HTC steht noch aus.

Buffy, Opera, Myst in den letzten Monaten und Jahren wurde so das kommende Facebook-Smartphones des taiwanesischen Herstellers HTC bezeichnet. Die jetzt aufgetauchten Informationen verraten mehr ber das technische Innenleben des Gerts. So soll es ber einen Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus Dual-Core Prozessor samt 1 GB Arbeitsspeicher und 16 GB Flash-Speicher verfgen. Eine 5 Megapixel Kamera sowie eine 1,6 Megapixel Front-Cam knnten sich ebenfalls am Gehuse befinden. Weiterhin werden Bluetooth 4.0, WLAN und ein 4,3 Zoll Display mit einer nativen Auflsung von 1.280 x 720 Pixel aufgefhrt.

Als Betriebssystem soll Google Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean dienen. Laut aktuellen Gerchten soll das Smartphone ber einen physischen Facebook-Button verfgen, der Inhalte auf Wunsch direkt mit dem sozialen Netzwerk verknpft und teilt. Wie von Analysten erwartet, wird es sich um ein Mittelklasse-Smartphone handeln. Vertriebswege oder ein Preis stehen noch nicht fest. Zudem kann noch nicht geklrt werden, ob das HTC Myst jemals in Deutschland erscheinen wird. Eine offizielle Stellungnahme des Herstellers beziehungsweise von Facebook steht noch aus. Auf der Consumer Electronics Show 2013 prsentierte Sony mit dem Xperia Z sein neues Smartphone-Flaggschiff. Der Hersteller hat nun ein Video verffentlicht, welches die Funktionen und die hohe Qualitt der verbauten 13 Megapixel-Kamera zeigt.

Mit dem Medion Akoya P6638 steht nun das zweite Aldi-Notebook des Jahres 2013 kurz vor der Verffentlichung. Ab dem 14. Februar wird es zu einem Preis von 499 Euro in allen Mrkten angeboten werden. Angetrieben wird es von einem aktuellen Intel Core i3-3120M Dual-Core Prozessor mit einer Taktfrequenz von 2,5 GHz. Ihm zur Seite stehen 4 GB Arbeitsspeicher und eine 1 TB Festplatte, auf der alle Daten abgespeichert werden. Das 15,6 Zoll groe Display lst mit 1.366 x 768 Pixel auf und wird von einer Nvidia Geforce GT 635M Grafikkarte mit 1 GB Videospeicher befeuert. Bei den Anschlssen bietet das Medion Akoya P6638 die gngigen Standards. An zwei USB 2.0 und zwei USB 3.0 Ports knnen unter anderen externe Datentrger oder Smartphones angeschlossen werden.

Eine Verbindung ins Internet und in Netzwerke erfolgt ber eine integrierte, kabelgebundene Gigabit Ethernet-Schnittstelle oder kabellos ber WLAN-N und Bluetooth 4.0. Eine im Displayrahmen eingelassene HD-Webcam wird fr Videotelefonate genutzt und durch ein optisches DVD-Laufwerk knnen Filme direkt am Gert abgespielt werden. Als Betriebssystem ist das aktuelle Microsoft Windows 8 vorinstalliert und Medion packt einmal mehr einiges an Zubehr ins Paket. Da das Display keine Touch-Untersttzung bietet, legt der Hersteller das Medion Touchpad bei, welches sonst separat 20 Euro kosten wrde. Es wird neben der Tastatur auf den Tisch gelegt und sendet seine Daten im 2,4 GHz-Band an den Laptop. Da es aber einen kleinen USB-Empfnger bentigt, belegt es damit einen der vier verfgbaren USB-Anschlsse.
Die XDA-Developers Experten haben anhand der IMEI-Seriennummer die Anzahl der verkauften Google Nexus Smartphones berechnet. Laut ihrer Rechnung wurde die Marke von 1 Millionen Modellen Anfang Februar geknackt.

LG stellt die weiterentwickelten Optimus L Series II Smartphones mit neuem Design, zustzlichen Features und verbessertem Akku vor. Den Anfang wird das LG Optimus L7II mit 4,3 Zoll IPS-Display (vermutlich 800 x 480 Pixel) machen. Schon in dieser Woche soll das Gert in Russland auf den Markt kommen. Als Antrieb dient ein Qualcomm Snapdragen S4 Play MSM8225 Dualcore Prozessor mit 1,0 GHz Takt, 768 MB Arbeitsspeicher und Adreno 203 Grafikeinheit. Der interne Speicherplatz von 4 GB kann ber einen microSD Kartenslot erweitert werden. Die Hauptkamera lst mit 8 Megapixel auf, fr Videotelefonie steht ein VGA-Sensor auf der Frontseite zur Verfgung. Der Akku hat eine Kapazitt von 2.460 mAh und das Modell wird auch in einer minimal greren in einer Dual-SIM Variante auf den Markt kommen. Als Betriebssystem wird Android 4.1 Jelly Bean mit LG UX-Oberflche vorinstalliert.

Erst vor wenigen Tagen berichteten wir darber, dass die ersten Gerchte aufgetaucht sind, nach denen Apple den Nachfolger des iPad Mini mit einem Retina-Display ausstatten will. Ein sinnvoller Schritt, wurde doch das Display mit seiner Auflsung von 1.280 x 768 Pixel von vielen kritisiert. Wie es scheint, knnte es sich beim MacBook Air hnlich verhalten. Wie die taiwanesische Zeitung Electronic Times nun berichtet, habe Apple konkrete Plne im Zuge der neuen Intel Haswell Prozessor-Generation seine neuen MacBook Air Modelle nicht nur mit neuen Prozessoren auszustatten, sondern auch mit einem Retina Display. Diese Informationen sollen aus den ansssigen Zulieferer-Kreisen stammen.

Der Wechsel wrde sich allerdings negativ auf die Akkulaufzeit auswirken, da der Grafikchip mehr leisten muss und auch das Display selbst mehr Strom verbraucht. Die Vermutung gehen in die Richtung, dass Apple seine MacBook Air Modelle aufspalten will und Varianten mit und ohne Retina auf den Markt bringen wird. Die Fertigung soll im zweiten Quartal 2013 anlaufen.
Der taiwanische Hersteller HTC hat soeben auf seiner Pressekonferenz in London das neue Top-Modell HTC One der Fachpresse enthllt. Das auch unter dem Namen HTC M7 gehandelte Gert bietet ein 4,7 Zoll groes FullHD SuperLCD3-Display und kommt Anfang Mrz 2013 in den deutschen Handel.

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The new Dell XPS 13 is one of our favorite laptops thanks to its long battery life. It lasted nearly ten hours in our Peacekeeper web browsing test, even with a pixel-dense 3,200 x 1,800 display, beating systems from 2014 with ease.Dell 942rv Battery

Intel’s efficient new fifth-generation Core chips are part of the reason for the XPS 13’s excellent life, of course, but some of the credit goes to a power-sipping display Dell 8027u Batterytechnology known as Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (IGZO). IGZO seems certain to crush the older generation of LCD display in 2015.

But it’s only the tip of the iceberg. A swarm of new display technologies will appear in 2015 and 2016, and some will reach products that you plan on purchasing. So what new display technology can you look forward to in 2015?

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Before we dive into why these new display technologies are awesome, it’s important to talk about what they are. Otherwise, IZGO and its contemporaries may not make much sense.Dell 7012p Battery

Backplanes under a microscope appear as a web of multi-colored microcircuits. And you can find them everywhere.
Modern displays revolve around two components; the pixels and the backplane. The pixels are used to create an image, but the backplane is what controls the pixels, shooting electrical signals to turn them on or off. IGZO is a backplane, so it’s built to tell pixels what to do.

Backplanes under a microscope appear as a web of multi-colored microcircuits. And you can find them everywhere. Almost all modern displays have a backplane. What makes them so ubiquitous are two characteristics; conductivity and transparency.

The more efficiently a backplane conducts electricity, the less power consumed when changing an image on the screen. Additionally, because the backplane rests between the light source and the pixels, the more transparent it is, the less power the backlight consumes.

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IGZO represents the first major leap in backplane technology in years. Built under license by Samsung, Sharp and other companies, IGZO backplanes conduct electricity more efficiently than previous technology. Additionally, it’s more transparent, which means the backlight doesn’t need to be as powerful to create an equivalent level of perceived brightness. That results in less power draw.

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IZGO is already available in notebooks like the Dell XPS 13 and Razer Blade, but it’s not the only new option. LTPS screens are the Cadillac of backplanes. They conduct electrons rapidly and have greater transparency than the older stuff. Their energy efficiency even beats out IGZO.

LTPS has been around longer than most other backplane technologies, but because of its high cost, it hasn’t caught on. Its complex manufacturing process also causes some problems, as it doesn’t scale to large sizes well. That means it will be a long time before it appears in larger displays, although smaller laptop displays are probably no more than a few years away.

The penultimate backplane is Metal Oxide (MO), which is best known as CBRITE MO, named after the company responsible for its development. CBRITE offers even better conductivity than IGZO and LTPS with the same transparency. Because it can move electrons around so rapidly, MO backplane technology can refresh screens at twice the rate of a regular backplane. That opens the door to extremely responsive panels at up to 4K resolution.

And there’s another advantage: it’s inexpensive compared to LTPS and offers better electron-mobility (or conductivity) performance than IGZO. CBRITE is very new, however, so it probably won’t appear in retail laptops for several years.

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While backplanes are a big deal, they’re only half of the recipe that leads to better display technology. The kind of pixels, aka panel, used in your laptop make a big difference in image quality, power consumption and daylight readability. Backplanes mostly account for energy efficiency.

Remember that display technology and backplanes are generally independent of one another. Manufacturers try to combine various displays with backplane technologies. Since all display types use backplanes to carry signals to individual pixels, mixing and matching backplanes with various pixel technologies can result in screens that provide better visual quality and lower battery drain.

Next generation Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

MEMS first bounced into markets inside of Qualcomm’s Toq smartwatch. While it offered anemic power consumption and daylight readability, its cost meant it couldn’t scale in size to accommodate laptops, monitors, and other larger devices. Still, the technology is interesting, and beginning to mature.

Displays based on MEMS aren’t like LCD technology. Instead of pushing white light through a red-green-blue filter, MEMS uses a mechanical shuttering system and a multicolored backlight. It completely dispenses with the liquid crystal matrix of most flat-panel displays. This contributes to its efficiency because liquid crystals work by blocking some light, which reduces overall efficiency. Sharp has announced a new MEMS-based tablet with an IGZO backplane.

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To date, only a handful of devices incorporate MEMS technology. One example: Qualcomm’s Mirasol e-paper screen technology. At the heart of Mirasol lies MEMS, which enables daylight readability and extremely long battery life.

While MEMS enables long battery life and daylight readability, it does not possess the same color accuracy as LCD displays. In addition, it has difficulty scaling to the high resolutions consumers expect in modern devices. Companies like Sharp have incrementally improved on the tech, but even so, its use in a laptop is probably a ways off. And given its expense, it might only find a home in rugged laptops, such as those produced by Panasonic, Dell and Lenovo.

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The newest field in display technology, Quantum Dots, offers outrageous color accuracy and excellent power consumption. It achieves its color accuracy with near-atomic level phosphor-like dots, for generating color. Each quantum dot within the screen, when hit with a backlight, emits a different color within the RGB spectrum. Because they’re so small, multiple dots in close proximity can represent a wider range of colors.

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Quantum Dots can produce a wider range of colors when hit with a special blue LED backlight, compared to regular LCDs. This property makes it ideal for reaching a very wide color gamut without increasing power consumption. Color accuracy is excellent as well – almost perfect, in fact, with the best implementations.

Related: How Quantum Dots are changing LCD televisions

The only laptop in production using Quantum Dot technology is the Asus Zenbook NX500, which retails for an astounding $2,600. That’s about $800 more than most other high-end gaming laptops. In its defense, its display is truly outstanding, out-performing not just competing laptops but many desktop monitors, as well. Still, most users will have a hard time justifying the cost, so it’ll likely be rare until the price is reduced.

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TF displays do not represent a dramatic departure from standard LCD screens. They include all the same components. The main difference: TF screens don’t need a backlight to show black and white images, like e-paper. Unlike e-paper, TF screens can flip on a backlight and display full-color, in addition to video. The biggest disadvantage of TF is the fact its colors in backlight mode appear slightly washed out.

The most well-known transflective laptop display hails from the now-defunct Pixel Qi. Fortunately, after Pixel Qi’s insolvency, its portfolio of patents got snapped up by the legendary John Gilmore. According to reports, the technology is now freely available, under a special license. This suggests screens based on Pixel Qi’s technology may soon enter development.

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And, in fact, a technology similar to Pixel Qi is already in production from Japan Display Incorporated (JDI). JDI just announced a new kind of screen technology which combines a form of reflective display, known as Memory-in-Pixel (MIP) with an LTPS backplane. In theory, an LTPS backplanes should offset the contrast and color accuracy associated with reflective screens. Fused together, an MIPS + LTPS display could offer record-breaking power efficiency.

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You’ve probably heard of OLED. Now available for extremely expensive luxury televisions, like the LG 65EC9700 (the best TV we’ve ever seen), and also witness in some mobile devices, the technology remains foreign to laptops and even desktop monitors. That’s a shame, because OLED offers excellent contrast. Unlike a normal LCD, which has a backlight that shines through a liquid-crystal matrix, OLEDs are made up of pixels that glows when charge is applied. This means inactive pixels are an extremely deep, “true” black. And a laptop-class screen can hit 8K resolution!

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On the downside, OLED displays suffer from a large number of shortcomings that make them less suitable for use in laptops or monitors. First, OLED cells burn out in relatively short order. Second, as they decay, frequently displayed images will remain on the screen – which is known as “ghosting.” Third, OLED technology costs more than LCD. Manufacturers are working on these issues, and have arguably conquered some, but it’s not quite ready for PCs yet.

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One of the most interesting technologies in the pipe is Intel’s PSR. Screens refresh at around 60 MHz a second – that more or less means, in one second, your computer’s hardware redraws a screen around 60 times. This sucks a lot of power. What PSR does: rather than redraw the screen, PSR takes all the work off the processor, allowing the screen to maintain its image without additional redrawing. It offloads screen-state information to a small amount of RAM, housed within the display.

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LG claims this technique shaves around 26% from power consumption. HP, on the other hand, claims PSR can compete with IGZO’s 56% reduction in power consumption. Some of the early figures bear HP’s press releases out. The just-announced PSR-equipped Spectre x360 Ultrabook gets 12.5 hours of battery life on a 56 WHr battery, putting it on par with the Dell XPS 13. If the official figures are correct, of course.

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Panel Self Refresh bears some resemblance to Japan Display’s Memory In Pixel (MIP) technology. The difference is that instead of including a supply of memory inside of the LCD housing, MIP places a small amount of RAM in each subpixel, which can record an on or off state. This method provides tremendous power savings and versatility, but unfortunately costs an arm and a leg. Don’t expect to see it in anything other than tiny watch-faces.

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If a manufacturer combines IGZO with PSR, the battery performance should be unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.
In the short-term, the two display technologies to watch out for are IGZO and PSR. Both IGZO and PSR are available right now and without a huge mark-up in prices. While PSR brings with it lower power consumption, IGZO ups the ante by also offering improved screen quality. Keep in mind that these technologies don’t exist independent of one another. If a manufacturer combines IGZO with PSR, the battery performance should be unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.

Over the next couple years, Quantum Dot and transflective screens will play a big role in chopping down power requirements, while at the same time improving image quality and daylight readability. It may even be possible to combine either screen technology with IGZO and PSR, without incurring massive price increases. The future looks bright – and efficient!

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The notebook features an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 Broadwell processor, a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS touchscreen display, and a 360-degree hinge that lets you flip the screen back and hold the notebook like a tablet.Dell xr697 Battery

The most important question weDell 0rn873 Battery try to answer at Laptop Mag is the following: “What laptop should I buy?” It’s a question with many facets and tons of possible answers. But, often, a good place to start is to decide which brand deserves your hard-earned dollars. Thus, we examine all the biggest notebook makers each year, taking a hard look at laptop quality, technical support, value and selection, and other criteria.

1st Place: Apple
The undisputed king of laptop brandsDell 0ru573 Battery for six years and counting, Apple retains the No. 1 spot in this year’s survey. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company won 5 out of the 9 categories, including a perfect score for its laptop reviews. Its tech support score is also stellar, and the brand’s keyboards and touchpads, audio quality and preloaded software can’t be beat. Assuming you have the budget, Apple laptops are the way to go.

Best-Worst-Brands-2015-chart-finalSomeDell 0ru583 Battery brands climbed our rankings in 2015, such as HP and Dell, but others crashed. Lenovo fell from second place all the way to sixth, thanks in part to lackluster tech support and the loading of dangerous adware on some consumer laptops.

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2nd Place: Dell
Jumping up to second place, Dell’sDell 0ru586 Batteryrise over the last year has been something to behold. The company took first place in the categories of innovation, value and selection, as well as in audio. We were also impressed with Dell’s reviews and technical support, which all point to why the brand rose from fifth place to runner-up.

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HP also rose in the ranks this year, going from fourth to third. We’re big fans of the company’s designs, and the attention it pays to audio quality. For laptop shoppers, HP customers have a huge selection of prices, styles and configurations from which to choose, and once you’ve made a decision, you can trust in the quality of the technical support.

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A brand’s score hinges on many factors, from a company’s ability to solve your problems to design and comfort. But we start by looking at the ratings and reviews of all laptops reviewed between January 31, 2014 to January 31, 2015.

For the Reviews category, points are awarded based on the ratings. For example, if a notebook had a rating of four stars, then it was awarded 4 points. A company received minus 1 point for any review lower than three stars, and was awarded 1 point for each Editors’ Choice award. The total number of points for each brand were then added up and averaged. The company with the highest score received 20 points, while the rest received a percentage of that based on their score relative to the winner.

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Our annual Tech Support Showdown forms the basis for that section. The scale starts with 20 points for an A+ score and goes down to 0 for an F. Within a grade (B-, B, B+) the point changes are less drastic than if a brand drops a full grade.

Design is essential in helping consumers choose a laptop. Thus, we look back at each brand’s aesthetics, material choices and durability to come up with those 15 points possible.Dell 0gw241 Battery

We also examined how each brand fared in the individual benchmarks for Keyboard & Touchpads, Display and Audio categories. Those brands that beat the category averages for tests such as key travel, color brightness and accuracy as well as decibel output scored highest. We also examined our general experience with each brand in those categories for the last year.

A good score in the InnovationDell 0gw252 Battery category points to an eagerness to embrace and successfully implement the newest technologies on the market. A good Value & Selection score is about how easy it is for a consumer to find and buy a brand’s laptops, at a good price. The Software category score hinges on a company’s branded and preloaded programs that come on new laptops. Are they useful, annoying, or — hopefully not — dangerous adware.

In January Dell updated its Dell 0rw240 Batterynotebook lineup with the new XPS 13 ultrabook and new Alienware gaming laptops. At the time the company also promised a new Dell Inspiron 13 7000 Series Special Edition convertible notebook was on the way.

Now it’s here.

The new model is a lot like other members of the Inspiron 13 7000 Series lineup, but it features a few small differences. The laptop is now available from Dell for $750 and up.

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Each model features 8GB of RAM, 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 43 WHr battery. The convertible notebook measures 13″ 8.74″ x 0.75″ and weighs 3.7 pounds.Dell offers models with 500GB or 1TB hard drives or a 256GB solid state drive.

What sets the Special Edition series apart from Dell’s other Inspiron 13 7000 Series notebooks are the metal palm rest (instead of plastic), curved edges, and “diamond cut touch pad.”

On the other hand, the non-special version has a lower starting price. You can pick up a model with a Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and a 1366 x 768 pixel display for $700.Dell 0hp277 Battery

I’d recommend paying the extra $50 for the Special Edition model though, since it has twice as much RAM and a higher-resolution display for nearly the same price.Dell 0m911g Battery

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And don't worry if you're not wowed by 3D features -- there are a couple of performance upgrades on the way for other models, too. The Aspire R 13 convertible and Aspire S7 Ultrabook are both getting upgrades to fifth-generation Intel Core processors (aka Broadwell), which promises both more speed and extra battery life. Acer isn't divulging full specs at this point, but it's promising that both the Aspire R13 and S7 Ultrabook will get a healthy 10 hours of running time (up from seven to eight hours) if you're using a 1080p display; you can expect a bit less if you pick up either PC with a 2,560 x 1,440 screen.Acer Aspire 4743G BatteryBoth should be available around the world in January, and Acer will follow them up with a promised Core M upgrade to the Switch 12 tablet sometime early in the year.

Acer’s Aspire R13 (which, confusingly, is part of Acer’s Aspire R7 Series) is designed as a convertible laptop that can also be used as a tablet. Its screen flips all the way around on its hinge to facilitate the laptop-to-tablet transformation, and it’s a design that’s neat and to the point.Acer Aspire 5253 Battery But we did notice a few issues that are disappointing for a product with a $1999 asking price.

Features and performance

This U shape makes the R13 look a little odd. At first glance, you could be forgiven for thinking that the hinge is instead a slot in which the screen sits. But the screen isn’t a tablet itself like it is on hybrid models with screens that detach from the body.Acer Aspire 5349 Battery All of the processing power is in the base of the R13, and it includes an ultra-low voltage, fourth generation Intel Core i7-4150U CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB solid state drive (SSD).

At 13.3 inches, the Aspire R13 (confusingly, the specific model name of this laptop is R7-371T) tipped our digital scales at 1.48kg, and it didn’t feel at all heavy to carry around on a daily basis. Furthermore, it’s thin (about 20mm including the rubber feet on the base) and it feels solidly constructed. It’s reminiscent of the Dell XPS 12 due to the way the screen flips around in its hinge, though unlike the Dell, the Acer’s hinge doesn’t form a frame around the screen. The hinge forms a U shape that goes halfway up each side of the screen to provide the central mounting points that allow the screen to turn over.Acer Aspire 5551G -4280 Battery

Performance was on par with what we expected from that configuration (when compared to Acer’s Aspire S7, for example, which had similar processing power), recording 41sec in our Blender 3D rendering test. Acer Aspire 5552 BatteryStorage performance was also good for a consumer machine, with CrystalDiskMark recording a sequential read speed of 518.7 megabytes per second (MBps), and a write speed of 399.3MBps. 3DMark’s Cloud Gate result of 4513 showed that the unit can be used for limited gaming (think simple games downloaded from the Windows Store, or older games that aren’t graphically heavy).

A 4-cell, lithium-ion battery with a rating of 3220 milliamp-hours is confined within the base, and it put up a good show of endurance. Acer Aspire 5552G BatteryIn our standard test, in which we disable power management, enable Wi-Fi, maximise screen brightness, and loop a Full HD MP4 video file, the battery lasted 6hr 59min, which is only an hour shorter than the time quoted by Acer in the product’s data sheet.

At 13.3 inches, the Aspire R13 (confusingly, the specific model name of this laptop is R7-371T) tipped our digital scales at 1.48kg, and it didn’t feel at all heavy to carry around on a daily basis. Furthermore, it’s thin (about 20mm including the rubber feet on the base) and it feels solidly constructed. Acer Aspire 5733Z BatteryIt’s reminiscent of the Dell XPS 12 due to the way the screen flips around in its hinge, though unlike the Dell, the Acer’s hinge doesn’t form a frame around the screen. The hinge forms a U shape that goes halfway up each side of the screen to provide the central mounting points that allow the screen to turn over.

When it comes time to charge the Aspire R13, you can plug in the generously long power adapter’s cord, though be careful not to hit the power button while doing so, as it’s placed right next to the power port on the chassis.Acer Aspire 5736z Battery Other ports on the chassis include HDMI (full-sized), three USB ports (two of them USB 3.0), a headset port, and there is an SD card slot (full-sized), though SD cards stick out halfway. You get a webcam, and there is 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 (via an Intel Wireless-AC 7265 chip).

Screen quality

The 13.3in screen on the Aspire R13 has a Full HD resolution, it produces vibrant colour output, and it’s of the IPS (in-plane switching) variety, which gives it wide viewing angles. We noticed that its brightness sometimes dipped down and up again at random times, even though we’d disabled auto brightness in Windows 8.1, and this was due to the Intel driver’s power saving setting being enabled.Acer Aspire 5741 BatteryHowever, it isn’t all good news for the screen. We noticed an image retention problem in which remnants of the previous image were visible in the background of the next image. We first noticed it when going from the Desktop to the Modern UI (Metro) screen, and when signing out of Windows and going back to the login screen -- the Modern UI and login screens showed the title bars of windows that were previously up on the screen, as well as the outline of the Taskbar.

We could also see it on the Desktop background. The retention showed up after about two minutes of leaving static Windows open, and then disappeared after around 20 seconds. We’re hoping this is just a quirk with our test unit, which had been doing the rounds before getting to us, and not something present on other units.

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Aspire E — This 15.6-inch Windows laptop has a Core i5 processor and 4GB of memory. The touch display is a good fit with Windows 8.1, the 500GB hard drive will handle all your files, and there's even a DVD drive onboard. This laptop is normally $599 but starting November 27 the Microsoft stores will price it at a low $399.

User comfort

In terms of conversion, it’s easy to turn this laptop into a tablet. Simply apply some pressure to the bottom of the screen to pop it out of the hinge, and then lock it into place once it has turned all the around and faces out.Acer Aspire 5741G-5452G50Mnck BatteryIn addition to tablet mode, you can use display mode (which is the screen facing outwards with the keyboard behind it), and tent mode (to save space if you don’t have enough depth on your desk). Because of the way the hinge works, you can also bring the screen forward over the keyboard to save space, too.

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We noticed that the installed software for detecting the various positions of the screen is sensitive, as it produced a few too many Windows notifications for our liking.Acer Aspire 5741G-5452G50Mnkk Battery Annoyingly, this software also changed the theme of the desktop depending on the orientation.

The keyboard and touchpad on this laptop are both of questionable quality as we experienced issues with both. The backlit keys are mostly full sized (apart from the arrow, page, and Caps Lock), but they have a shallow travel distance that’s more in line with what we’ve felt on thinner laptops. They are also somewhat stiff and can initially feel harsh as the keys hit the membrane. Some keys stuck, at times, to produce double lettering, and some keys required a little more force in order to leave their mark.

A layout that’s a little different from the norm means that this keyboard sits firmly in the ‘takes time to get used to it’ category. It’s a similar layout to the keyboard on the Aspire S7. The Function keys, rather than having their own row, have been incorporated into the number keys. Acer Aspire 5742 BatteryThis has resulted in a flow-on effect in which the Delete key has been moved to the bottom row near the arrow keys; half the Caps Lock key has been sacrificed to make way for the Tilde key.

We think there is plenty of room for improvement here. Literally: there is a good 5cm distance between the keyboard and the screen that could potentially be used to house an extra row of keys and allow Acer to install a board that won't require study before usage. We also need to mention that the extra width of the chassis (it’s wider than a typical 13-incher in order to facilitate the upright hinge design), also threw us off a little while typing -- we’re simply not used to having so much space either side of the keyboard.

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Aspire E 11 — If a small budget Windows laptop is on your list, you should check out the Aspire E 11 which will be dirt cheap for Black Friday. It has an 11.6-inch display, 250GB hard drive, 2GB of memory, and runs Windows 8.1 with Bing.Acer Aspire 5742G Battery Normally priced at $229.99, beginning November 23 Target will price it at 179.99.

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The touchpad doesn’t have its own software interface installed (we couldn’t find it, at least), so there is not much for you to tweak. This is annoying if you prefer to change the scroll direction of the pad, or if you like using gestures such as three-finger swipes. We also found the accuracy of the pad to be questionable. It skipped around a lot, especially when our finger left the pad after a tap, which made it difficult for us to tap on small items such as text boxes and even Taskbar shortcuts. The only settings you can play with are the ones in the standard ‘mouse’ Control Panel applet.Acer Aspire 5742Z Battery The ‘Enhance pointer precision’ option seemed to help a little in this area.

What's the verdict?

We really want to like this laptop. It seems well built, and the hinge design for converting it to a tablet is an easy one to use and doesn’t add too much heft. However, the screen retention issue, the skipping touchpad, and the awkward keyboard all make us think that this model could use refinement; especially so since it has a price tag of $1999.

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Eurocom P5 Pro Laptop Adds Samsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSD

Eurocom-LogoDERBY, UK, Mar 5, 2015 – Eurocom is launching the Samsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSD in the P5 Pro high performance, Intel Z97 based laptop.SAMSUNG AA-PBPN6LB Battery

The new Ativ Book starts at US$1,200 for 128 GB storage and 4 GB of RAM, and that jumps up to $1,400 for 256 GB/8 GB.

EUROCOM P5 Pro storage comes by way of four drive bays, two M.2. SSD slots and two standard drive bays for up to 5 TB of RAIDable storage. PCIe M.2 Solid State drives are supported for enhanced storage performance . Samsung NP-N150 Battery

m260_9“Our technical team recently completed a series of storage testing, pitting the Samsung SM951 against a Plextor M6e M.2 PCIe SSD and a Micron M600 SATA M.2 SSD and published the results on our website.SAMSUNG AA-PLPN6LS BatteryThe results we are achieving in the P5 Pro are really astounding with these M.2 SSD drives, the Samsung SM951 will blow our customers away” Mark Bialic, Eurocom President.

At the heart of all Eurocom laptops and workstations is upgradeability, customers are able to choose the storage, memory, graphics, processor, display and wireless card to meet their demanding needs.

Samsung’s SM951 comes in the M.2 form factor (80 mm x 22 mm), it weighs approximately six grams.Samsung NC10-KA05 BatteryThe drive’s compactness is well suited for theEUROCOM P5 Pro’s slim design, which is a steep contrast to the epic performance it wields.

Its killer feature, though, is its size. At just 11.7 mm (0.46-in) thick and 950 g (2.09 lb) light, it felt startingly light and thin. So much so that we originally assumed it was made of plastic (it's aluminum).

Improving battery life of the EUROCOM P5 Pro, the Samsung SM951 is the first SSD to adopt the L1.2 low power standby mode, allowing the SM951’s power consumption to be drastically reduced – to under 2mW, about a 97 percent decrease from the 50mW consumed using a L1 state.SAMSUNG RC530 Battery

The Samsung SM951 uses 128Gbit 19nm MLC and in terms of the interface the SM951 moves to PCIe 3.0 x4.

The EUROCOM P5 Pro supports NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M (8GB DDR5), GTX 970M (6GB DDR5) and GTX 965M graphics for unbeatable performance and raw power.SAMSUNG RC520 BatteryThere is no Optimus support so there is no lag brought on by graphics switching for maximum performance. Professional graphics support comes from NVIDIA Quadro K5100M and K3100M.

The EUROCOM P5 Pro has Intel Core i7-4700 Desktop Processor Series support from an Intel Z97 Express Chipset and LGA 1150 socket.The unlocked Intel Core i7-4790K and K series processors allows for enhanced performance and user control over their high performance system.

A Trusted Platform 2.0 Module is integrated for enhanced security in order to keep your data and information as safe as possible.SAMSUNG RC512 Battery

The EUROCOM P5 Pro is able to power four panels at 4k resolution at 60 Hz through its HDMI 2 and 2x Display Ports 1.2 due to its highly capable, high performance graphics architecture through its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M, 970M, 965M graphics and Intel Core i7 4700 Desktop Processors Series.

“The EUROCOM P5 Pro is the thinnest and lightest laptop we have ever made with the power of a desktop processor.SAMSUNG NP-RC512 Battery Combined with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics, M.2 storage and its ability to power four, 4k 60 HZ panels is unprecedented.” Mark Bialic, Eurocom President.

The new Ativ Book starts at US$1,200 for 128 GB storage and 4 GB of RAM, and that jumps up to $1,400 for 256 GB/8 GB.

Memory is fully upgradeable and configurable with four SODIMM sockets able to support up to 32 GB of memory.

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Display: 15.6-inch 4K QFHD 3840-by-2160, or FHD IPS 1920-by-1080 pixels; 60Hz; eDP interface; LED Backlit

Chipset: Intel Z97 Express Chipset

Processor: Socket based; LGA1150; 4th and 5th generation; up to 90W VGA Technology: Modular; MXM 3.0b; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M, GTX 970M or GTX 965M; Quadro: K5100M, K3100MSAMSUNG RV515 Battery

Mechanical (Frame): Heavy Duty ABS Plastic

Cooling: High performance, high quality copper VGA and CPU heatsinks

Samsung's Ativ Book 9 (2015) impressed us at CES 2015, with its combination of ridiculously light/thin build, razor-sharp screen and (allegedly) long battery life. What we didn't know was when it would launch (apart from "Q1").SAMSUNG NP-RV515 Battery Well, you can mark your calendars: the Ativ Book 9 hits stores tomorrow, March 1.

The 2015 Ativ Book 9 has a razor-sharp 2,560 x 1,600 display (Photo: Will Shanklin/Gizmag....The Ativ Book 9 is noticeably lighter than a MacBook Air (Photo: Will Shanklin/Gizmag.com)The Ativ Book 9 is, however, more expensive than the MacBook Air, starting at US$1,200

Memory: Four 204-pin SODIMM sockets; DDR3L-1600, 1866 or 2133; 1.35V; up to 32GB Storage: up to 4 physical drives: 2x M.2 2280 PCIe SSD and 2x HDD/SSD (9.5mm) SATA3 6Gb/s and with Intel Rapid Start Technology; Intel Smart Response Technology and RAID 0/1/5/10 SAMSUNG RV520 Battery

Card Reader: 6-in-1: MMC/RSMMC/SD/mini SD/SDHC/SDXC; Push-Push

Keyboard and Touchpad: Backlit full size keyboard with numeric pad; TouchPad with multi-gesture and scrolling; W/A/S/D Gaming key

Ports: 4 x USB 3.0 (1x powered USB port, AC/DC); 1 x eSATA/USB3.0 Combo port; 2 x Display Port 1.2 (up to 3840×2160 @60Hz); 1 x HDMI output (up to 4096×2304 @24Hz); 1 x Headphone; 1 x Microphone-in; 1 x S/PDIF (digital); 1x Line-in; 1 x RJ-45 LAN; 1 x DC-in SAMSUNG RV511 Battery

Audio: High Definition Audio; S/PDIF Digital Output; Built in array microphone; Built in two 2W speakers; Sound Blaster X-FI MB3; External 7.1CH output (headphone, mic, line-in and S/PDIF); ANSP 3D Sound Technology (headphone output)

Display Support: Supports up to 3 active internal and/or external displays Samsung N150 Battery

Security: Kensington Lock and Embedded TPM 2.0

Battery: 8cells 82Wh Li-Ion; up to 120 minutes

Weight: 3.4kg / 7.48lbs w/ battery

Dimensions: 386x262x35mm / 15.4×10.48×1.4-inch- Samsung N150 Plus Battery

The 2015 version of the Ativ Book 9 is clearly designed to take on the MacBook Air, and it beats the current-generation MBA in most hardware categories (though OS X Yosemite vs. Windows 8.1 is another matter altogether). Samsung's notebook has a razor-sharp 2,560 x 1,600 display, a Broadwell Core M processor and a listed "up to 12 hours" of battery life.

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Entrambe le tipologie, sempre a detta di HP, offrono grafica avanzata (Intel integrata, Amd o Nvidia) e una “eccellente esperienza audio e video”, e come accade per la serie dei laptop anche qui si può scegliere fra i processori Intel (Pentium o Core i3, i5 o i7) e quelli Amd. Per quanto riguarda la memoria, le opzioni di configurazione prevedono fino a 16 GB di Ram e fino a 2 TB di storage.Acer Aspire One 532h-2Dr BatteryAltro aspetto in primo piano è la sicurezza: la serie ProDesk 400 è equipaggiata con HP Client Security, un sistema che integra soluzioni su base hardware, software e Bios in un unico strumento. La gamma comprende anche unità disco rigido con crittografia automatica e HP Trust Circles (che consente l’accesso ai file di dati solo ai contatti approvati); è anche possibile attivare opzioni di supporto come la garanzia parti/manodopera/interventi sul posto e la disponibilità dei pezzi per un massimo di tre anni. C’è una stampante HP LaserJet che è appena entrata nella storia: non un modello particolare, ma una singola unità, il cui merito è quella di essere la duecentomilionesima della liena LaserJet venduta da Hewlett-Packard. Acer Aspire 1510 BatteryUn traguardo che arriva a quasi trent’anni dal lancio della gamma di dispositivi laser desktop, una categoria di prodotto nata proprio per iniziativa di HP.

Era il 1984, infatti, quando l’azienda americana presentava la sua prima LaserJet, dando avvio a una rivoluzione nel mondo della stampa “da scrivania” e introducendo una possibilità di scelta nuova, la tecnologia laser appunto, che da allora sarebbe diventata accessibile anche ai piccoli uffici e addirittura all’utenza domestica.Per festeggiare il traguardo dei 200 milioni di unità, HP ha creato una serie di LaserJet in edizione limitata, che sarà esposta nei centri HP Customer Experience di tutto il mondo, da Barcellona a Pechino, da Città del Messico a Palo Alto.ACER Aspire One 531 Battery

“Con l'introduzione della prima LaserJet, nel 1984, HP ha dato il via a una rivoluzione della stampa che ha modificato radicalmente il modo in cui le aziende interagiscono con i contenuti” ha commentato Susanne Heis, vice president and general manager, printing systems Emea di HP .Acer Aspire 4741Z Battery “La consegna della nostra duecentomilionesima LaserJet dimostra che abbiamo proseguito sulla strada dell'innovazione: una strada che certo non finisce qui. HP continuerà ad aiutare i suoi clienti a trasformare le sfide in opportunità per migliorare il modo in cui le aziende digitalizzano, gestiscono e utilizzano i contenuti”.Il mito della sicurezza dei sistemi operativi Apple, dopo gli attacchi malware sviluppati per i Mac (clamoroso il caso di Flashback nel 2012), subisce un altro colpo questa volta nel segno di iOS. A infliggerlo è HP, svelando i risultati di un test eseguito su oltre 2mila applicazioni mobili provenienti da 22 diverse categorie dell’iTunes App Store, sviluppate per ragioni commerciali e utilizzate da circa 600 grandi aziende in 50 Paesi: quasi nove su dieci hanno rivelato di contenere “gravi vulnerabilità”. L’approfondimento ha riguardato sia applicazioni di tipo business to consumer, sia b2b, anche utilizzate in ambito retail e bancario.Acer Aspire One 721 BatteryNel dettaglio, è emerso che il 97% delle app ha avuto accesso a dati personali contenuti all’interno di un device, mentre l’86% si è rivelato vulnerabile ad attacchi, per esempio di tipo Sql injection. A detta di Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager Enterprise Security Product di HP, le direttive che Apple fornisce agli sviluppatori sarebbero efficaci sotto vari punti di vista, ma non si preoccuperebbero abbastanza del fattore sicurezza.

Fra i rischi per le aziende c’è quello che l’applicazione, sfruttata a mo’ di estensione del sito Web ufficiale, diventi di fatto una porta aperta agli attacchi cybercriminali. Per esempio, fra le vulnerabilità rilevate nell’86% dei casi spiccavano l’assenza di strumenti di protezione dagli exploit più comuni. Inoltre, HP ha osservato che una pari percentuale di applicazioni è stata creata senza sicurezza integrata nelle prime fasi dello sviluppo.Acer Aspire One 721-3574 Battery Tre quarti delle app, invece, non utilizzavano in modo corretto le tecniche di crittografia dei dati archiviati sui dispositivi mobili, lasciando tali dati alla mercé dei malintenzionati.

“È nostra sincera opinione che il ritmo e il costo dello sviluppo in ambito mobile abbia intralciato gli sforzi in direzione della sicurezza”, scrive HP nel report che riassume i risultati dell’esperimento, aggiungendo che “la sicurezza nell’ambito delle applicazioni mobili è ancora in uno stadio infantile”.Acer Aspire One AO721 Battery Il problema, naturalmente, non riguarda solo gli utenti Apple, come i continui dati riferiti agli attacchi Android non smettono di ricordare. Fra gli ultimi, quelli riferiti da Trend Micro: nel secondo trimestre di quest’anno quasi il 99% dei dispositivi con a bordo il robottino è risultato potenzialmente vulnerabile ad attacchi perpetrati attraverso applicazioni mobili malevole.Acer Aspire 4733Z Battery Per Apple, insomma, mal comune è mezzo gaudio, ma non c’è comunque ragione di festeggiare.Da inizio novembre è disponibile in Italia il Toughpad 4K UT-MB5, il tablet Panasonic con schermo da 20 pollici e risoluzione 4K, pensato per i professionisti delle vendite, del marketing e dei media. E' il primo esemplare di una nuova serie di Toughpad Ultra HD, a cui farà seguito una seconda versione, che arriverà in commercio nella prima metà del 2014, e sarà espressamente indirizzato a ingegneri, architetti e designer per modellazione 3D e CAD.Acer Aspire One 753 Battery

Il Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 è un tablet business rugged portatile che offre una risoluzione di visualizzazione di 3840 x 2560 pixel, quattro volte superiore al normale HD. L'aspect ratio è di 15:10 mentre il PPI è di 230 pixel per pollice.Acer Aspire One 722 Battery In sostanza lo schermo è adeguato per la visualizzazione di immagini di grandi dimensioni, disegni A3, brochure e file multimediali. Non manca la tecnologia touchscreen che funziona sia con i polpastrelli sia con la Panasonic Electronic Touch Pen.

Si tratta di un accessorio che secondo la documentazione ufficiale è in grado di offrire un feeling simile a quello della scrittura su carta per realizzare schizzi a mano libera, prendere note o scrivere a mano, grazie ai 2048 livelli di pressione supportati."Il Toughpad 4K permette numerose applicazioni che mettono a frutto le evoluzioni visive della tecnologia 4K" ha spiegato Jan Kaempfer, Direttore Marketing di Panasonic Computer Product Solutions.Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi Battery

Nonostante le dimensioni, questo tablet pesa solo 2,35 kg e ha uno spessore di 12,5 millimetri. La configurazione comprende un CPU Core i5 con tecnologia vPro, 8 GB di memoria RAM, unità di archiviazione SSD e chip grafico Nvidia GeForce. Il sistema operativo preinstallato è Windows 8.1 Pro, e sono disponibili accessori come il Panasonic desktop cradle, che consente di usare il tablet anche come un Pc da tavolo.La connettività prevede le porte USB 3.0, un vano per le schede card SD, la presa jack per le cuffie e un lettore di smart card opzionale.Acer TravelMate 8210 Battery Con la cradle ci sono anche la presa Ethernet e l'uscita video HDMI. Non mancano poi una fotocamera frontale integrata da 1280 x 720 pixel, Bluetooth e Wi-Fi.

Offre, inoltre, funzionalità di schematizzazione in-one-click che permettono di creare e applicare gli schemi necessari per un’analisi di alto livello. In questo modo analisti, scienziati dei dati e utenti aziendali possono esplorare e visualizzare informazioni senza gravare sulle loro funzioni It e senza dover aspettare che queste mettano in atto i lunghi e costosi sistemi/processi di estrazione e trasformazione, normalmente utilizzati per i database legacy.Acer TravelMate 8215WLMi Battery

L'equipaggiamento rugged consente di resistere a cadute fino a 76 cm (lato posteriore, durante il funzionamento) e di funzionare a temperature comprese tra +5 e +35 C.Il Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 Modello Standard con 4 GB di memoria RAM è disponibile in Italia al prezzo di 4.509 euro più IVA. Il Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 Modello Standard con 8 GB di RAM è disponibile al prezzo di 4.713 euro IVA esclusa.Acer Aspire 4739 BatteryHP ha annunciato l'intenzione di produrre nuovi server NonStop con architettura x86, in modo da ridurre i prezzi e allo stesso tempo preparare un'alternativa alla piattaforma Itanium a cui i prodotti attuali sono legati. Ricordiamo infatti che Itanium è stato al centro dello scontro giudiziario fra HP e Oracle, dopo che quest'ultima aveva annunciato la decisione di abbandonare il supporto per i server con processore Itanium nelle future versioni dei suoi database.Acer Aspire 4253 Battery

L'allarme è rientrato grazie all'intervento del tribunale, ma nonostante questo le vendite della divisione Business Critical Systems Group di HP stanno registrando ricavi in calo del 26 per cento anno su anno.Acer Aspire 4733Z Battery Ecco quindi l'introduzione di soluzioni x86 che, precisa HP, non sostituiranno quelle Itanium ma vi si affiancheranno. In questo modo la prospettiva di prezzi più bassi potrebbe attirare aziende di medie dimensioni o nei mercati emergenti, ampliando il giro di business e risollevando le vendite.

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A powerful laptop, wide-screened and with a RAM of that size—one might just think about it as a budget gaming device, or just a laptop for those who want quality for money. Speaking of gaming laptops… Dell Inspiron M501R BatteryAre you thinking of buying a Windows laptop? Don’t, until you’ve read this review. The new Dell XPS 13 isn’t perfect, but it’s freaking incredible for the $1700 you’ll spend to bring one home.

The Dell XPS 13 is one classy laptop which features a design that does away with the bezel. At least, when you’re watching a film, you feel as if you’re watching it on a wider screen—that’s what the XPS does, as per Digital Trends. Aside from that, it’s being powered by a 5th-gen Intel core. Depending on the build, as per Digital Trends, this laptop could be powered by an i3 up to i7, with 4 to 8GB of RAM supplied—perfect for gaming, I might add. Dell Vostro 1310 Battery

Gizmodo loves technology. Our product reviews are presented thanks to Dick Smith. What Is It? Specifications Processor: Intel Core i5-5200H up to Core i7-5500U RAM: 4GB 1600MHz DDR3L up to 8GB Graphics: Intel HD 5500 Storage: 128GB SSD up to 256GB Display: 13.3-inch, 1920×1080 pixel, IPS Connectivity: 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, stereo analog audio, SDXC card, 3x USB 3.0, USB 2.0 HDMI, miniDisplayPort The $1700 Dell XPS 13 — the latest version of Dell’s 13-inch MacBook Air competitor, now thinner and lighter than before.Dell Inspiron M5010 BatteryA laptop with a screen that practically looks like it’s floating on air thanks to crazy-thin bezels. A premium laptop with a shiny aluminium chassis, silky carbon fibre palmrests, and a precision touchpad. A laptop that somehow manages to offer all that and a lovely 1080p matte screen for just $1700. Or a QHD+ touchscreen for $2100. A tiny Windows laptop that manages to fit a full-size SD card slot.

Yes, it kinda looks like a MacBook Air. With a few notable exceptions, that’s how PC manufacturers build thin Windows laptops these days. That’s just what laptops look like now. Which is fine! Besides, for my money this sleek silver-and-black MBA alternative completely trashes Apple when it comes to look and feel. Dell Inspiron M5010R BatteryFor starters, it crams a 13-inch 1080p (or better!) screen into a laptop closer to the size and weight of the 11-inch MacBook Air, and without sacrificing my precious SD card slot. Those thin bezels make the Air’s giant silver borders stick out like sore thumbs, too.

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The Dell XPS 13 has been one of the bigger news that came out of the CES 2015. Dell Inspiron M5030 Battery

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But there’s also the experience to consider. When I sit down with a MacBook Air, there’s bare, abrasive metal under my wrists. My palms heat up when the machine gets warm. The screen throws off glare. Riding the Caltrain to San Francisco and back, the smooth metal chassis threatens to slide off my inclined lap and tip over backwards. Dell Vostro 1320 BatteryNot this Dell. Carbon fibre surfaces, anti-skid rubber feet and the matte screen take care of all those issues. And not in a cheap way, too. The whole laptop feels finely crafted in a way that MacBook competitors have rarely ever managed. Dell Inspiron 17R BatteryDell XPS 13 Review (2015): The Windows Laptop To BeatDell XPS 13 Review (2015): The Windows Laptop To Beat

This configuration has a market value of $1004.99, but Dell currently has it on sale for $799.99. Even better, use the coupon code “RLW9T2G2N630W8” during checkout, and your subtotal will plummet all the way down to $599.99. That’s a bargain just too good to pass up.

Inspiron 13 7000 On the inside, this Dell Inspiron 13 7000 sports a dual-core 2.2GHz 5th generation Intel Core i5 CPU, integrated Intel HD Graphics 5500, 8GB of DDR3L RAM, a 500GB 5400RPM hard drive, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11b/g/n/ac WiFi support.Dell Inspiron N7010 Battery Add in a 13.3-inch 1080p touchscreen display, a backlit keyboard, and an SD card reader, and this is an outstandingly flexible workhorse.

What’s It Good At?

The things everyone praises Apple for — an incredible touchpad and keyboard — are nicely replicated here on the XPS 13 too. DELL Vostro 3400 BatteryWhich is to say that the keyboard is thin — very thin — but quite sensitive and adequately cushioned so my fingers don’t get sore from bottoming out, and the touchpad is insanely responsive and accurate. It’s so good.

You’ve got to understand that for years, most touchpads on thin Windows laptops have been ludicrously bad, to the point where saying “This is the best touchpad I’ve ever used on a Windows machine” wasn’t much of a compliment.Dell Inspiron 1721 BatteryHere, though, a precision touchpad using Microsoft’s own drivers feels just as good as Apple. If you ask me, clicking down on the pad’s integrated button actually feels better. No idea why it took so freaking long for a PC manufacturer to figure this stuff out, but I sure am glad they did. Dell XPS 13 Review (2015): The Windows Laptop To Beat And the screen — gosh, even the entry-level 1080p version — just puts Apple to shame. I have to assume that Apple plans to introduce a new MacBook Air design soon, because pricey Windows laptops have been outclassing the MBA’s 1600 x 900 panel for a while now with slick high-resolution displays, and there’s no way Apple, the company that introduced the Retina display, will let that stand for long. But a nice matte 1080p display is rare on any laptop, and I personally prefer this one to the glossy, crisp, colourful 3200 x 1800 screen you can get on Dell’s $2100 model.Dell Vostro 1500 Battery

I’ve been going back and forth from one to the other, using them every day for work. While text and my DSLR photos look positively gorgeous on the higher-res display — and I do touch the superb touchscreen from time to time — I’d trade it in a heartbeat for the lack of glare and the extra real estate. Did you know that 3200 x 1800 gives you an effective resolution of 1600 x 900 when it comes to how how space things take up on the screen?Dell Vostro 1700 Battery 1920 x 1080 gives you a bigger workspace.

We’ve come to expect more out of our laptops than we used to. Sure, spreadsheets and e-mails are just as important as they’ve always been, but the popularization of touchscreens has really changed our expectations.Dell Latitude D531 Battery Not only should our laptops help us work wherever we travel, but we want entertainment and flexibility at our finger tips as well. Thankfully, Dell has a top-notch convertible touchscreen laptop available, and it’s currently being sold at a steep discount.

Dell XPS 13 Review (2015): The Windows Laptop To Beat Performance is what you’d expect from a thin Windows laptop with a ultra-low voltage Intel processor and a solid state drive on board. It boots in a flash, handles browser tabs and basic workloads with ease, but still chugs on games.Dell Precision M65 Battery Still, the new Intel Broadwell processors will play more than before: I actually got Dark Souls II running at 720p and minimum settings on the $1700 model (with a dual-core 2.2GHz Core i5 processor and 4GB of RAM) and it was vaguely bearable.

Less demanding fare might work better. Dell Precision M4300 BatteryWhat I didn’t expect is how cool and quiet this computer would be. Most of the time, it’s dead silent. At first I wasn’t even sure there was a fan inside this machine.

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Education is a very important market for computer manufacturers and other technology companies. Just yesterday, Microsoft announced a huge deal with the New York City Public Schools, to offer Office 365 to all of its students and teachers for free.

The company also revealed its curved UltraSharp 34 monitor (available Jan. 8,, $1,199.99), which measures out to 34 inches by way of a super-wide 21:9 aspect ratio. As with many of the other products mentioned, it’s a high-quality take on a innovative new idea. Dell Inspiron 1750 BatteryWith all these releases, varying models, and innovative accessories, Dell devotees will have a lot to choose from in 2015.

Today, Dell is presenting new hardware to the education segment; new laptops and tablets running Chrome OS, Android and Windows. By offering a diverse range of form factors and platforms, the manufacturer can gain access to many school systems and classrooms.

"Dell today announced a range of new additions to its state-of-the-art portfolio of education solutions to enhance the learning experiences of students around the world: the Dell Chromebook 11; Venue 10 and Venue 10 Pro tablets; Latitude 11 Education Series laptop and the Dell Interactive Projector S510.Dell inspiron 1521 BatteryThese new products join a great education portfolio that includes award-winning products like the Latitude 13 Education Series laptop, Dell Wyse thin clients for labs, and the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation for engineering and design students. Whether the learning environment is based on Chromebooks, laptops or tablets, all Dell devices are designed to integrate seamlessly within the preferred IT infrastructure", says Dell.

The latest XPS notebooks, powered by Windows 8.1, have been unveiled, for instance.Dell inspiron 1720 BatterThe XPS 13 – available starting today at Dell.com for $799.99 – is said to be the smallest 13-inch laptop available. And the XPS 15 (coming “soon,” at $2,349,) will output to a 4K Ultra HD display – boasting more than 8 million pixels – bold steps forward for the model. Sporting 5th generation Intel Core processors and SSDs, the two latest XPS notebooks are sure to be another hit.

Sam Burd, VP and GM, Dell Personal Computing Product Group further explains, "the classroom is changing quickly, and innovative technology is a major way for students to enjoy a collaborative educational experience.Dell inspiron n5010 Battery Education devices need to be really robust to make it through a school district’s life cycle. They also need to be powerful and flexible enough to suit individual learning needs, and make collaborating within the classroom simple. Our latest education solutions give students, teachers and IT managers the tools they need to provide an engaging learning experience".

Turning away from everyday users and toward hardcore gamers, Dell also announced the latest Alienware gaming laptops, both set for release at Dell.com today.Dell latitude d820 Battery The Alienware 15 ($1,199) and the Alienware 17 ($1,499,) will both include optional Intel Core i7 quad-core processors and NVIDIA GTX 980m graphics, to provide world-class support for all manners of gaming. And they’re smaller than their predecessors, too: Both the 15 and the 17 are roughly 20 percent thinner than previous models. And if that’s not enough, both are outfitted with the Alienware Graphics Amplifier to essentially guarantee smooth overclocking.

Dell lists the devices with associated pricing and availability below

Dell latitude d830 BatteryThe Dell Chromebook 11 starts at USD $249.99 and is available on Dell.com in the U.S. and select countries around the world starting February 12, 2015.

The Latitude 11 Education Series starts at USD $299 for qualified education customers.Dell vostro 1510 Battery The non-touch display version will be available starting March 3, 2015.

A touch display version will be available in late June 2015.

The Venue 10 Pro starts at USD $329.99 for the tablet or $379.99 with keyboard option. DELL Alienware M18x Battery It will be available on Dell.com in the U.S. and select countries around the world starting March 3, 2015. The Venue 10 will be available in spring 2015.

While I think Windows is the smartest decision for most schools, Chromebooks can certainly meet the needs of many. Dell's Chromebook 11 in particular looks very durable and inviting; young students should love it.DELL Vostro 3350 Battery

A number of other products have been emphasized as cornerstones of Dell’s 2015 calendar: The Venue 8 7000 series, for instance, is also available today (starting at $399.99) at the company’s website.Dell inspiron 1440 Battery The devices, powered by the Intel Atom Z3500 series processor, are said to be the “world’s thinnest tablet” (at 6mm) as well as the first to integrate the Intel RealSense Snapshot Depth camera (which promises to craft a “depth map” for each photo to enable more flexible editing).

A handful of products in the Inspiron series were also shown off on the show floor: The Inspiron 15 5000 (available now, $749.99), the 15 7000 (available now, $1,099.99), the 13 7000 2-in-1 (set for a March release), and the 23 All-in-One (available now, $1,599).Dell Inspiron 15R Battery Each device in the line can be customized to feature a 4K display, and they are all outfitted with Intel RealSense 3D cameras and 5th generation Intel Core processors.

Dell explains that the Chromebook 11 has "features including an anti-glare HD display with optional touchscreen, liquid-resistant keyboard and touchpad and front facing integrated HD video webcam, allowing students to easily collaborate.DELL Alienware M15x Battery It also features advanced connectivity options including wireless 2x2 LAN, 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, and up to 10 hours of battery life, so students can stay online throughout the day without being tethered to wires and chargers".

A 10 inch Android tablet may have its place for specific touch applications and as an e-reader, but so can the Venue 10 Pro with keyboard (seen directly above); a great valued at under $400. This appears to be a much better value that the traditionally-designed Latitude 11 Education Series. Students love tablets and a 2-in-1 can save money.Dell Alienware P08G Battery

"Both the Dell Venue 10 (Android 5.0, Lollipop) and Dell Venue 10 Pro (Windows 8.1) feature a 10.1 inch HD or Full HD display to help bring content to life, and allow students to work in five different positions when configured with the optional, attachable and reversible keyboard. The five positions make the most of different learning environments and include: clamshell for test scenarios and to use as a laptop, tent and stand positions to promote collaboration and sharing, and slate configuration for keyboard storage while in tablet mode.Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 Battery An optional active stylus also provides the pen and paper 'inking' experience on a tablet", explains the manufacturer.

Overall, Dell has hit a home run with these new offerings, and by being diverse, can attract many schools with different needs. Most importantly, pricing is right and the designs are very appealing.

Dell has announced its entire lineup of upcoming devices. Dell Inspiron N4010 BatteryThe latest products in the XPS, Inspiron, and Venue 8 7000 series as well as new Alienware devices are being shown at CES right now.

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It is believed that the new Apple laptop will have the newly released Intel Broadwell Core M chips and will be fanless as well. The new Apple laptop is also expected to get a new trackpad design, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, fast PCIe-based flash storage, and Thunderbolt 2 ports. Mac Rumors is also suggesting that it will be the first Apple notebook to have the new reversible USB Type C connector, allowing USB cables to be inserted into it at any orientation. Dell 312-0662 Battery

It is thin and very light at 2.6 to 2.8 pounds. The new laptop is dubbed as the "smallest 13-inch laptop on the planet."
"We're not worried about someone being able to make a smaller x and y (width and height)...At 15 millimeters at the back (of the Dell XPS 13), we feel like moving to (thinner) 12 millimeter design is giving up performance and battery life. If you're pulling 3 millimeters out of the design, you're going to compromise," Forbes quoted XPS Product Marketing Director Donnie Oliphant as saying.Dell 312-0663 Battery

When Dell unveiled their new XPS 13 for 2015, I brazenly wrote that I regretted my MacBook Air purchase, largely on the merits of a gorgeous edge-to-edge display and specs that should honestly force Apple to issue a price drop or accelerate their own Macbook Air redesign. But how does it hold up in the real world? I’ve had a couple weeks with Dell’s new ultrabook and the verdict is largely enthusiastic.Dell 312-0664 Battery

Dell's XPS 13 for 2015 packs a 13.3-inch display, but does so in an 11-inch laptop body. The baseline model starts at $799 and includes Intel's INTC +1.24% new Broadwell-based CPU (specifically the Core-i5 5010U clocked at 2.10 GHz), 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB solid state drive.Dell 312-0665 Battery

My initial goal was to pit the $999 XPS 13 directly against a comparatively priced MacBook Air, but one wasn’t available at the time Dell was seeding review samples. I ended up with their $1399 SKU, which boasts 8GB of RAM, a 256GB Solid State Drive, and a dazzling 3200 x 1800 touch display. Unfortunately this puts a direct Air comparison out of range, but it should be noted that on paper the XPS 13 blows Apple's AAPL +3.1% ultrabook out of the water on pricing and performance.Dell 451-10528 Battery

This means an apples-to-apples comparison isn’t possible, so I’ll review the XPS 13 based solely on its build quality, user experience, and performance. Besides, it could be argued that without the ability to run OS X, said comparison would be impossible even with the corresponding hardware.Dell gp975 Battery

Has the rumored MacBook Air Retina already found a match? Well, it looks like that it's going to have a new rival. Say hello to the new Dell XPS 13.
The new Dell laptop which was unveiled during the recent Consumer Electronics Show last January boasts of its 13.3-inch Touch display at an improved resolution of 3200 x 1800. This resolution is incomparable to the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro's 2560×1600. It also has a very tiny bezels which measure 5.2 mm on top and on the sides.Dell pp28l Battery

The “infinity display” on the XPS 13 is a rather genius feat of engineering. By nearly eliminating the bezel (now a mere 5.2mm on top and on the sides), Dell has crammed a 13.3-inch display into what we traditionally associate as an 11-inch laptop body. Dell claims it’s the world’s smallest 13-inch laptop, and it is. In fact it’s 23% smaller than the 13-inch MacBook Air.Dell rn887 Battery

The 3200 x 1800 resolution display itself is a showstopper, with wide viewing angles, rich and accurate color reproduction, and a 400-nit screen (bright enough for use in sunlight). I can’t emphasize enough how stunning it is to gaze at this panel on a daily basis. As a selling point, it’s a compelling one.Dell rn894 Battery

It should be noted here that Apple is prepping a rather dramatic revision of the MacBook Air, and there’s an established precedent for Apple trailblazing new feature and quality standards in that space (in fact no single laptop manufacturer ever replicated the Air’s marathon battery life). That being said, the visual gateway to the XPS 13′s computing experience is an IGZO display from Sharp , and Dell recently told Forbes it has exclusivity on these panels until the end of 2015. It’s always fun to speculate, but I’ll predict that Dell maintains this particular edge over Apple for the near future.Dell ru006 Battery

The XPS 13 adheres to Dell’s established design language, with machined aluminum and carbon fiber for a premium look and feel. The silver and black theme is unmistakably Dell, but this time a bit more angular and exuding all kinds of sleekness. I did notice that its frame audibly creaks under pressure, but I doubt anyone will be trying to bend the poor laptop under normal use.Dell ru030 Battery

The thin-and-light laptop space is super competitive, which means the little things hold more weight in the purchase decision-making process. And although I’m enamored with Dell’s overall design for their XPS 13, they overlooked something small but significant: the one-finger opening. With a MacBook Air you can open the lid with a single finger. This is enabled by a small indentation on the base underneath the trackpad, and the perfectly balanced amount of resistance, meaning the base of the laptop doesn’t lift as you’re opening the lid.Dell ru033 Battery

This is one minor flourish I wish Dell would have addressed. The XPS 13 isn’t difficult to open by any means, but it’s not ridiculously effortless like the MacBook Air or even the 2012 Samsung Series 9. And when you’re deliberately targeting Apple in your ad campaigns, these small touches matter.

Finally, a trackpad that can challenge Apple’s! The glass-integrated trackpad on the XPS 13 improves upon the excellent XPS 12 (the nifty hybrid they launched with Windows 8). It’s smooth, precise, multi-touch capable and accurately recognizes Windows 8 gestures. If you’ve historically been a Windows trackpad hater (I don’t blame you), Dell’s out to change your mind. It’s not as large as my Air trackpad, but it’s just as enjoyable.Dell tk330 Battery

Keyboards can be one of the dreaded deal breakers (alongside battery life and display technology). If you’ve used a Dell laptop recently, the chiclet keyboard will feel familiar. Though not much travel is required to register a keystroke, the keys themselves feel springy and you’ll become acclimated with them almost instantly. The only company with a better keyboard in this class (and all classes) is Lenovo, but I’m content using it as my content production machine on a daily basis.Dell tk362 Battery

Oliphant also told Forbes that they launched this thin and light laptop to compete with the rumored 12-inch MacBook Air Retina. "We definitely believe that the next MacBook Air is going to be a very aggressive design," he said adding that they believe that the new Apple laptop would be very powerful with the new Core M chip.Dell tk369 Battery

The new Dell laptop would be powered by the latest fifth generation Intel Core i processors and will have 4GB and 8GB variants. Dell also boasts of its new battery which could last up to 15 hours. Aside from that, the new Dell laptop also showcases an improved trackpad.

Meanwhile, the rumored 12-inch MacBook Air boasts not only of its new size but also of its new Retina display which is a first in this Apple laptop variant. Mac Rumors report citing KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also said the new laptop will be lighter and slimmer than the current MacBook Air and will definitely be better than its predecessors.Dell tx363 Battery

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What to do When Your Laptop Battery Won't Charge

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Try charging the laptop with the power off. Some laptops draw a lot of power -- so much so that they can't efficiently charge the battery and run demanding tasks at the same time. If the battery doesn't seem to be getting fully charged, shut down the laptop entirely and see how it goes.?Asus a43 Battery

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Clean the battery contacts. Since you removed the battery anyway, make sure that the contacts on the battery and the laptop are clean. Replace the battery and try charging it again.

Try a deep charge. If the battery is in a bad state, you might be able to bring it back to life with a deep charge cycle. First, make sure it's complete discharged by running the laptop with the battery installed (and the AC adapter removed) until the?laptop?completely dies. Then charge the laptop overnight.?Asus a43t Battery

If you try all of these troubleshooting steps and your battery is still not working properly, it's time to get a new battery. Or, if the laptop suffers an unfortunate accident, it might be time to replace the whole thing.?Asus a43u Battery

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Asus announced three new 2-in-1 laptops at its CES 2015 press conference, all of them part of the same brand: “Chi.” The dock-able convertibles share a similar look and feel, but the unique size of each varies their purpose considerably. We had a chance to look at the trio after Asus’ conference and came away mostly impressed.

The star is undoubtedly the Chi T300, which boasts a 12.5-inch display with 1080p or 1440p resolution. Its size makes it most obviously useful as a full-blown laptop in addition to a tablet, yet I was surprised by how light the tablet felt in-hand. Windows convertibles have long struggled with excessive heft in tablet mode, but it appears the T300 has finally fixed the problem.

Don’t get us wrong; it’s still a bit less convenient than an iPad or other eight-to-ten-inch tablet, but it’s far easier to maneuver than a Lenovo Yoga or HP x360.

Because it’s the largest in the family, the Chi T300 is also the most powerful. It has an Intel Core M processor that provides respectable performance and up to eight hours of endurance. In my brief time using the T300 I saw little sign of sluggishness, which is what I’d expect from Intel’s latest and greatest.

Speaking of expectations, I thought the 2,560 x 1,440 panel would blow me away. It certainly seems impressive on paper, particularly in light of the meager $799 price (the Chi T300 is $699 with a 1080p panel). On the floor, though, the panel failed to excite. Maybe it was the light. Maybe it was the relative lack of high-resolution test images on the floor units. Whatever the reason, the display seemed a bit ho-hum.

The T300 docks through a simple magnetic hinge that keeps the system together in daily use but allows quick conversion to a tablet. There’s no latch to unhinge, no button to press; lifting the screen firmly while holding the display will do. Asus has latchless 2-in-1 design down to a science.
Moving on from the T300 we took a look at its sibling, the T100, which has a 10.1-inch display and an Intel Atom processor. While the difference in size between it and the 12.5-inch version isn’t hard to notice, the T100 still feels large enough for productivity.

Is it comfortable? That depends on the size of your hands, but let’s be clear: It’s not horribly cramped like the netbooks of old. Every centimeter of available space is used to maximum effect.

Downsizing the system means downsizing the processor, so the T100 has an Intel Atom quad-core instead of a Core M. That means a pretty significant drop in single-core performance, but the Atom makes up some ground by doubling the core count relative to the T300. In my brief demo of the system I could not tell much difference between the Atom and Core M, though whether that’s a compliment to the former or an insult to the latter is open to interpretation.

Last, and certainly least, is the T90, which features an 8.9-inch, 1280 x 800 panel and the same Intel Atom featured in the T100. These specifications give it plenty of grunt for a tablet that’s under 10 inches diagonal, but no processor can make up for ergonomic problems. The T90, which comes with an appropriately tiny detachable keyboard, is simply too small to use comfortably – as a laptop, at least.

As a tablet it feels great because it’s only 7.5 millimeters thin. That’s smartphone thin. But it runs afoul of the problem all Windows tablets experience; namely, 8.1 isn’t a very good operating system for small devices. While the $299 price tag is certainly affordable, it’s hard to see the value when there are so many Android alternatives available at a similar price. No, they don’t have the keyboard dock, but who cares if the keyboard is too small for most people to use, anyway?

Still, two potential winners out of three products isn’t bad, and the T300 in particular looks like a standout small 2-in-1. Asus has undercut the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 significantly, and we can’t think of any alternative that offers more for less. Even Lenovo, which sells plenty of alternatives, is now playing catch-up. We hope to grab a closer look at this small wonder in the coming months.

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The Acer C720 Chromebook offers an excellent ChromeOS experience in a very portable package for a very affordable price.
When Chromebooks were first introduced, the most common reaction from consumers was, “If I’m not browsing the web or working in Google Docs, this machine is useless to me.” While these low-cost laptops are still great for doing those activities, the Chromebook experience has improved greatly over the last two years thanks to many new apps and notably better capabilities.

The Acer C720 Chromebook has advanced beyond its predecessor, the Acer C7, in almost every measurable way. The build is more solid, battery life is much longer, and ChromeOS now features more diverse apps, better-integrated services, and a streamlined browsing experience that enables users to achieve what the old Chromebooks could not deliver on.

Designed for easy web browsing, document editing, productivity and light media consumption in a low-price category all its own, does the Acer C720 still deliver a quality computing experience on a budget? Read the full review to find out.

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Build and Design

At only .75” thick and 2.76 lbs, the Acer C720 is a very portable and light machine. The chassis and top of the machine are a rich matte gray plastic, and the bottom is black plastic. The Acer and Chrome names are printed on the top of the machine, along with an embossed colored Chrome logo. The C720’s hinges are solid-feeling, with good stiffness to prevent the screen from wobbling too much when typing. It is thin and light enough to easily be held with one hand when closed.

Ports and Connectivity

As a Chromebook, the C720 requires an internet connection to access most of its functionality. The C720 features 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, but does not feature a physical Ethernet port. As there are only two USB ports on the device (one USB 2.0 on the right side, one USB 3.0 on the left), using a network-to-USB dongle is not always a great option for most users, so wireless connectivity is something that is needed wherever this computer goes.

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The C720 has Bluetooth 4.0 capability, which is easily turned on or off via the Chrome Settings menu to alleviate the lack of spare USB ports for external mice or other accessories. An HDMI port on the left side allows the C720 to be connected to an external monitor as well, and a Kensington PC lock slot and snappy SD card reader on the right (handy for getting one’s photos onto Google Drive quickly) rounds out the package.

Software and Operating System

Google’s ChromeOS, which is what makes a Chromebook a Chromebook, is a unique operating system that is very different from the standard executable-running Windows or Mac OS X. On ChromeOS, all applications (be they for web browsing, document editing, music, games or instant messaging) are run through the Google Chrome browser.

The Linux-based operating system is optimized to run Chrome, and that’s it; PC executables cannot be installed or run on ChromeOS. While it has the obvious drawback of preventing programs like the Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, desktop games, or even Skype from running on the machine, it also keeps the computer safer. Executables are a dangerous file format, and by preventing them from running, ChromeOS keeps the computer safe from any bundled malicious code that may be embedded within these programs. Many viruses simply do not work on the Chromebook.

Chromebooks are also incredibly easy to restore data on, as almost all files and settings are stored in the cloud on Google’s servers. If the device is lost or broken, all the user’s data is safe in the cloud, and anything remaining on the computer’s internal storage is encrypted with the user’s Google account password. This safety, coupled with their affordable price and ease-of-use, makes ChromeOS devices (such as Chromebooks and Chromeboxes) excellent computers for children and educational institutions.

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While most programs do not run on Chrome, Google’s Web Store offers many interesting apps that replace a lot of that missing functionality, usually with well-integrated web capabilities. The Chromebook comes pre-installed with app shortcuts to Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Hangouts (for web calling and group video chat), Google Play Music, and more in its Start menu-like launcher. New Apps can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store, including many free apps and extensions for the Chrome browser. And if a user downloads a Chrome App on another computer, it will automatically download to any ChromeOS device that their account is synced to as well.

There’s also a collection of apps that can be used without an internet connection, and while they may not replace the full functionality of programs like Photoshop or Skype, the options presented in ChromeOS are usable enough that, as a secondary machine, it is still capable of holding its own in terms of productivity.

Display and Sound

The C720’s 1366×768 pixel, 11.6-inch LED screen is not a full HD display, but it’s small enough that the pixel density is higher than on a larger laptop with the same resolution. Deep blacks are a bit washed out looking, and the screen is a bit dim overall, even on the highest brightness setting. Due to its matte finish negating reflections, this should still be fine for most environments though. Acer also make a $299 touchscreen Chromebook, the C720P.

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When flexed, there is some rippling on the screen, but overall the screen does not bend too easily, so it should be a non-issue for most users. The glossy black area around the screen does attract fingerprints and smudges very easily, but this is the only place on the laptop where this readily occurs.

The internal speakers, located near the hinge of the device and hidden within the chassis, can easily fill an entire apartment at maximum volume. However, since they’re small, there is a bit of tinniness as the volume increases, and the overall sound lacks much depth (despite being very loud for their size). Audiophiles would be advised to use separate speakers or headphones when listening to their favorite songs, especially heavily layered ones such as metal or orchestral tracks, which tended to sound a bit muddled. The speakers are fine for watching YouTube videos and the like though, and are about as good as you can expect for the price.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The C720 has a chiclet-style keyboard with flat-top matte-finished black keys. They are very comfortable even for a user with large hands, and are very responsive and quick to snap back. The travel distance of the keys is small, but they do still offer a decent tactile sensation when pressed.

The most interesting thing about a Chromebook keyboard as opposed to a normal PC keyboard is its addition of special function keys tied to Chrome and Google. Additional keys include Browser Back, Forward, and Refresh, Fullscreen Window and Display All Windows, and, in place of a Caps Lock key, a Search button. These work well with the browser (and thus, all Chrome apps as well), though I admit I used Alt-Left and Alt-Right more than the dedicated Browser Back and Forward buttons just due to my being not used to the placement of the function keys above the number row.

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The Search button is handy due to its easy placement; when pressed, it brings up a window with all installed apps from the corner of the screen, making it seem like the Windows Start menu. However, if a user starts typing in the Apps window, it will search not only the computer for that keyword or App, but also the Chrome Web Store and the web via Google proper.

Since the Alt and Ctrl keys are located where the Caps Lock would normally be on the left, they’re both much wider than on other keyboards. The Up and Down arrow keys are each half-height compared to the other keys, and take up the space of one whole key in between the Left and Right keys. While it took some getting used to, it may make playing certain games a bit trickier for users unaccustomed to the layout.

The buttonless touchpad is smooth, and its a slightly darker matte gray color than the rest of the chassis. The touchpad slopes down slightly towards the user, leaving a tiny bit of a ridge inside the bottom edge of it. This is not overly noticeable during use, however, and the touchpad features tap-to-click capability (toggled on or off via the Chrome Settings menu) and two-finger ‘flicking’ and scrolling.

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The Asus TransformerBook T100 is perfect for users with basic computing needs that want the flexibility of a convertible notebook without the steep price tag.
On one hand, the Asus Transformer Book T100 can be seen as the successor of the Asus VivoTab (now with Windows 8.1), or, on the other hand, as a cheaper match for Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2, where the dock and keyboard take on the role of Type Cover. With its 10.1-inch 1366 x 768-pixel IPS display, Intel 1.3GHz quad-core “Bay Trail” Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, and 32 – 64GB of internal storage (which can be expanded with microSD cards), the tablet looks solid on paper. Still, compared to the Surface Pro 2, it has certain shortcomings.

Build and Design

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Like the previous Asus Transformers, this is basically a tablet with a detachable keyboard. When the display and the keyboard are connected, the T100 becomes a notebook, albeit a small one.

The display and keyboard are covered with grey plastic and seem convincing when held. They can be detached by pushing the appropriate key above the keyboard with one hand and simply pulling the screen from its bed with the other.

Weighing 544 grams, the Transformer Book T100 is one of the lighter 10-inch tablets with Windows 8.1, however, its dimensions of 264 x 170 x 10.4 mm make it not one of the slimmer ones. Still, despite its proportions, the device leaves a convincing impression and is not as difficult to hold as it might seem at first. In short, it’s heavy enough to “eventually” feel uncomfortable when you’re holding it.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe entire device’s body has been crafted out of plastic with a slightly rough texture which makes the tablet cling to the palm easily (or any other surface). And thanks to the textured cover, it is easy to determine if you’re holding the tablet the wrong way up just by feeling it. Perhaps the device would leave a more convincing or modern impression if it were smooth or made out of aluminum (like the Asus VivoTab, for instance). However, this 2-in-1 is solid and compact enough for most tasks … and even though the T100 clearly isn’t built to “premium class” standards, it’s still an attractive laptop.

There is a 2-megapixel camera above the 10.1-inch display (it is not entirely centered, but slightly shifted to the right) and the capacitive Windows key is below the screen. It is a bit odd that the upper and bottom frame of the screen are visibly thicker than the left and right edge. In tablet mode, it seems a bit asymmetrical at first — but this does not affect its use and is an irrelevant aesthetic detail.

The T100’s edges curve towards the front, which is the best solution for devices that are more often used in hand than set up at a desk or on your lap. Because of this and the other device dimensions, the consumer may be motivated to use the Transformer Book T100 more frequently as a tablet and seldom as a notebook, connected to a physical keyboard.

Apart from the USB 3.0 port which is on the keyboard dock, all other connectors are lined up along the edges of the screen, i.e. the tablet. This includes the combined sound jacks, a micro-HDMI connector for external displays, and a micro-USB port for charging. The Asus T100 has no back-facing camera, which is not a slight shortcoming.

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The Asus Transformer Book T100 comes with a 1366 x 768-pixel IPS display, which provides a humble pixel density of 148 ppi on a 10.1-inch diagonal. Still, the user interface of Windows 8.1, Microsoft Design Style (or Metro) looks exceptionally sharp with good contrast and vivid color on this display. The low pixel density favors the functionality of Windows desktop mode, given that the window edges, as well as the control key which manages the windows, are not too tiny to be “aimed at” with the tip of the finger (which can sometimes be the case with tablets of the same diagonal, yet greater resolution).

Still, when text in a smaller or slimmer font is displayed, the detail ceases to be sharp; letters have a clear teething or “jaggies” on sloped lines. The difference in relation to tablets with an evidently greater pixel density than the Transformer Book T100 is visible with the naked eye.

As far as the viewing angles go, there are no objections — the Transformer Book T100’s screen looks the same no matter how you look at it. The colors are expressive and the contrast is sustainable even when the device is exposed to direct sunlight. We can conclude that this Asus 2-in-1 has a display of above average quality … but the low resolution isn’t as good as some competitive models.

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Anyone who did not like the Touch Cover or the Type Cover on Microsoft’s Surface models might be pleased with Asus’ keyboard for Transformer Book T100, however, despite being evidently better, it still includes many practical flaws. For starters, it is rather heavy and doubles the Transformer Book T100’s mass and equally doubles its thickness. It is entirely plastic, which matches the second ‘screen’ half of the device and again, contributes to the impression that this is not a top class device.

The display and the keyboard are detached when the appropriate key above the keyboard is pressed with one hand and the screen is simply pulled out from its bed with the other. When the keyboard is closed with the tablet, it automatically goes to stand-by and automatically turns on when it is opened, just like any other notebook.

Above all, the keyboard should be seen as a useful addition in this case, not something that will help you write a book on the Transformer Book T100. The small dimensions and tiny, densely grouped keys are ergonomically unfavorable for intense typing. On the other hand, it will do just fine for occasional chatting and writing shorter documents. The traditional function keys from the top row can be used to adjust the screen brightness, volume and for similar tasks.

The touchpad also deserves an equal amount of praise and objections, above all because it only supports certain finger swipes characteristic for multitouch. In other words, the user will have to raise their hand and touch the screen in order to perform some tasks, instead of doing them instinctively on the touchpad and this can be annoying or tiring. Still, compared to the Asus VivoTab, the touchpad has been increased in size a bit and is more practical.

The keyboard dock has a very useful full-sized USB 3.0 hub. An incredible array of peripheral devices can be connected via USB to this 2-in-1, like any printer, an additional USB hub, a mouse, even a larger keyboard.

Just like on Surface RT, the USB ports provide Asus’ Transformer Book T100 with great expandability compared to the iPad and tablets with Android OS. However, those people who primarily use the device as a tablet might have found the USB ports even more practical if they were located on the tablet itself and not the keyboard dock, as the

The new generation of the Atom processor (Bay Trail architecture) in this device shows that combined with 2GB of RAM, it can offer great performance in all aspects of everyday usage (Internet, multimedia, documents). All this with almost no warming up, which is why the Transformer Book T100 is as quiet as a tomb while running.

Asus Transformer Book T100 comes with 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, which can be expanded with microSD cards. If you mainly use this 2-in-1 as a tablet then you will surely find this capacity limiting with time.

Low power consumption is praiseworthy, as the device provides over 8 hours of battery life (the battery is built in inside the screen). On the other hand, the recharging takes quite a long time and despite the fact that batteries of competitive models are recharged much faster, this great battery life is perhaps the tablet’s biggest selling point, apart from its low price.

On that note, the device comes with the full suite of Microsoft Office 2013: Home & Student, which makes the reasonable price all the more affordable.

wPrime processor comparisons (lower scores means better performance):

Asus TransformerBook T100 wprime

PCMark 7 measures overall systems performance (higher scores mean better performance):

Asus TransformerBook T100 PCM7

3DMark 11 is a benchmark that measures overall graphic card performance for gaming (higher scores mean better performance):

Asus TransformerBook T100 3DM 11

CrystalDiskMark storage drive performance test:
Conclusion

There may be a large number of convertible devices, instigated by Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, but The Transformer Book T100 sets itself apart with solid design, reasonable performance, and a low price. Furthermore, it is almost certain we will be seeing more of these 2-in-1 notebooks with detachable keyboards and touchscreens for the foreseeable future. Asus has a slight upper hand because it was among the first companies to have offered such devices with above average performance at a reasonable price. The Transformer Book T100 is also a device which has more pros than cons.

This tablet’s main advantages are its alluring price, great battery life, USB 3.0, a solid display with an impressively sustainable contrast, brightness and color vivacity despite its low resolution, as well as its smart software package which makes the device ready to perform all the tasks (more or less) that made you want to buy it in the first place.

The T100’s few shortcomings are the dominant use of plastic, low pixel density display, mediocre keyboard and touchpad, and lack of back-facing camera. All in all, this is one of the most attractive mid-class 10-inch, 2-in-1 hybrid notebooks at the moment, which means competition for more expensive and more powerful convertible devices with Windows 8.1.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAPros:

Great battery life
USB 3.0 hub on the keyboard
Solid performance of the Intel Bay Trail processor
Affordable price
Cons:

Insufficient display resolution
Plastic body and keyboard
No rear-facing camera
Unimpressive keyboard and touchpad

HP Compaq 365750-004 Battery

In this guide, we’ll look at the essentials of purchasing a business notebook, including how to select the right screen size, pricing tier, warranty, and after-sales support, among other factors.

HP_Z_WorkstationsPhysical Size

Businesses typically issue notebooks to employees who have mobile job requirements, whether those be traveling for business or working at home. The employee’s needs should be taken into account when purchasing the equipment; unless a traveling employee needs the desktop-like performance offered by a 17” workstation notebook, it’s more sensible to offer a device that’s easier to transport. These are general categorizations of the various available screen sizes:

12.5” and under: Notebooks this small tend to carry a price premium compared to the next size up. Reserve these notebooks for your most frequent travelers and make sure they’re comfortable with such a small screen prior to issuing. Also keep in mind the keyboards can be compromised to fit the limited space.

13.3” to 14.5”: These screen sizes represent the ideal compromise between mobility, usability, and performance. Unlike the 12.5” and under tier, value-oriented notebooks are available in notebooks in this size range.

15.6”: This is the standard desktop replacement screen size. Notebooks in this range are mostly suited for desk duty, but are reasonably portable should the need arise. This is likely a good choice for an employee who works at home and wants a larger screen but still wants to retain a measure of portability. Notebooks in this price range are available in value-oriented pricing tiers.

17.3” and up: Only business notebooks classified as mobile workstations are typically sold in this size. Mobile workstations are some of the most powerful notebooks sold and carry a large price premium. These notebooks would only be recommendable if employees require desktop-like performance for advanced tasks such as photo and video editing or 3D drawing and design. A similarly-priced desktop workstation would offer better performance assuming the employee doesn’t need mobility.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAQuality Tiers

Business IT equipment is typically purchased with an asset depreciation period in mind – a computer system may be expected to last three, four, or even five years. Better quality notebooks typically last longer in strenuous usage scenarios due to their superior construction. Like consumer notebooks, business notebooks are sold in different pricing tiers that almost always translate to the unit’s quality, features, and performance.

Businesses would be wise to avoid the lowest pricing tier if possible; the devices are often the same or similar as consumer notebooks except with business after-sales support. A breakdown of pricing tiers from popular business notebook brands is as follows:

Manufacturer

Entry-Level

Mid-Grade

High-End

Dell

Latitude 3000

Latitude 5000

Latitude 7000; Precision Mobile Workstations

ProBook

EliteBook

Elitebook; EliteBook Folio; ZBook Mobile Workstations

Lenovo

ThinkPad L, E

ThinkPad T

ThinkPad T, X; W Mobile Workstations

Toshiba

Tecra A, C

Tecra Z

Tecra W Mobile Workstations

Fujitsu

N/A

LifeBook E

LifeBook E, T, U

The Dell Latitude 5000 series, HP EliteBook, and Lenovo ThinkPad T series tend to be the most popular models amongst businesses because work well for their expected duration and the appropriate amount of performance and features.

ZBook_standWarranty and After-Sales Support

A notebook’s quality and features are only half of the equation; the other half is the warranty and after-sales support. It’s common to see IT departments purchase notebooks with a warranty period to match the depreciation period; three years is typical. The major business notebook manufacturers including Dell, HP, and Lenovo all have dedicated business support departments and advanced business services, such as onsite repair and replacement part cross-shipping.

Businesses equipping traveling employees with notebooks should consider purchasing accidental damage protection unless they have some other form of insurance that covers accidental loss. Theft isn’t covered by accidental damage protection but employees often damage work-issued notebooks in unforeseen ways.

See our Notebook Warranty Guide for advice on how much it makes sense to spend on an extended warranty.

System Performance

An employee’s daily work requirements should determine the specifications of their computer. At the bare minimum, the computer should exceed the performance requirements of the software the employee will be using. The good news is that most of today’s business-oriented computers are easily capable of running everyday applications such as the Microsoft Office suite.

Employees in certain positions such as software developers may require more advanced features such as virtualization support and large amounts of memory. The following table generalizes the requirements for different usage scenarios:

Usage Scenario

Basic/Non-Specific

Software Development

3D Content Creation

Description

Everyday business use including Microsoft Office

Programming and the use of virtualized machines

3D drawing including CAD, photo and video editing

Processor

Intel Core i3, i5 dual-core

Intel Core i7 quad-core

RAM (Memory)

4-8GB

8-16GB

16GB

Storage

500GB

As required, preferably SSD

Graphics

Integrated

AMD FirePro or Nvidia Quadro

Other Requirements

Consider an extended battery option if the notebook will be used unplugged frequently

Look for a notebook with a full-size keyboard

Invest in a high quality screen option if available

Consult with your vendor for detailed advice for specialized applications like rugged use.

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True business-oriented notebooks also differ from their consumer-oriented counterparts in the following ways:

Screens with anti-glare coatings; this is essential in a business environment with overhead fluorescent lighting
Fully functional keyboard layouts with all of the expected keys, including a Function key row (F1-F12)
Docking station support
End-user serviceability – essential to give IT departments the ability to replace parts quickly without having to send the notebook away for service
See our feature on What Makes a True Business Notebook? for an in-depth look to the above categories.

Conclusion

This guide detailed the basics of buying a business notebook and taking employees’ needs into consideration. Business notebooks must ultimately perform two functions: handle an employee’s workload and last the length of the depreciation period in working order with minimal downtime. We recommend the mid-tier and above business notebooks to get the ideal mix of quality and performance at an affordable price. Additionally we stress the importance of after-sales warranty and support in the overall value proposition.