Archive for September, 2007

The Best Gaming Laptop in 2007: Alienware Area-51m 5750

 This big notebook is ideal for gaming, but has an uncomfortable keyboard. With its Area-51m 5750 entertainment-focused notebook, Alienware appears to be courting consumers who might ordinarily choose an HP Pavilion or Toshiba Qosmio as their 17-inch-screen desktop replacement. The [...]

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Fastest Laptop of 2007: Apple MacBook Pro

Lightweight 17-incher has a beautiful screen and comes loaded with useful software. It’s fast, too. For people who appreciate finer laptop accoutrements such as a backlit keyboard and a slot-fed DVD drive, Apple has crafted another tasty offering in the [...]

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The Heaviest Notebook of 2007: Acer Aspire 9810-6829

A huge, 20.1-inch display and solid multimedia features help this hefty desktop replacement stand out. Whatever your work or entertainment aspirations, Acer’s new notebook can probably handle it. This desktop replacement’s enormous (20.1-inch) screen is bright and crisp, and its [...]

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Is Apple the New Microsoft?

  by:  Mike Elgan Don’t look now, but the role of the industry’s biggest bully is increasingly played by Apple, not Microsoft. Ten years ago, Microsoft was the company everyone loved to hate. The most vociferous Microsoft haters slammed the [...]

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Microsoft ain’t abandoning XP yet; Windows XP SP3 leaked

by:  Abe Olandres When Microsoft earlier announced it will be phasing out Windows XP by 2008, everyone thought we’re doomed with Vista. What will all that bugs and incompatibilities, it sure does make corporate system administrators crack their heads in [...]

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O2 XDA Zinc

The good: Slide-out QWERTY keyboard; solid feel; wide range of connectivity options including A2DP; faster Intel processor compared with the 838 Pro. The bad: Soft keys hinder typing; 2.5mm audio jack; no HSDPA; average battery life. The bottom line: With [...]

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