Windows Mobile-based cell phone offers an appealing design and an impressive array of software, but its talk-time battery life is poor.
Don’t let the sleek design of Palm’s new Treo 750 fool you: This is a serious business device. The Windows Mobile-based phone, available for $500 with a two-year contract from AT&T’s Cingular Wireless unit, includes mobile Office applications, world phone capabilities, and support for Cingular’s 3G UMTS high-speed network; but business users may not tolerate its poor talk-time battery life.
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 effort is not without merit. The Area-51m 5750 is a fast gamer with superb stereo sound and an instant-on DVD capability, like its competitors. But a flawed keyboard and fewer entertainment options lessen its appeal.
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 form of the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Sleek, powerful, and able to run Windows as well as the Mac operating system, the MacBook Pro makes a strong case for becoming anyone’s ultimate notebook.
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 speakers are outstanding. A powerful workstation and an adequate gaming rig, it includes TV, Webcam, and bundled PC Card-chargeable VoIP phone features.
For a big unit, the 9810 has decent near-2-hour battery life and runs remarkably coolly. But it needs a detachable keyboard, to permit a more comfortable working distance away from the huge screen. And at a gargantuan 18.7 inches long by 15.1 inches deep by 2.7 inches tall, the 9810-6829 takes up 40 percent more space than the average desktop replacement configured with a 17-inch screen–so plan on doing some serious desktop reorganizing to clear sufficient space for it.
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 a faster processor, the Xda Zinc has a slight performance edge over the Dopod 838 Pro but falls short by a slight margin in terms of aesthetics. Unless you’re looking for a QWERTY handheld, there’re more options out there.
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For those who follow the never ending bout between the two processor company giants, Here is the full coverage of CNET.com Check it out who wins this bout. The Battle is between AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 vs. Intel’s Core 2 Duo .
1. Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme will be the fastest processors available. Faster than the Pentium EE, thanks to new techniques like Smart Cache and Wide Dynamic Execution—and, according to preliminary results, faster than the AMD FX62.
2. Core 2 Duo overtakes the Pentium as the name in processors. Farewell Pentium: There will never be a Pentium 5, 6, or XX. A brief moment of silence, please.
3. For the first time, Intel has specifically created one unified Core architecture for all categories: Conroe (desktops), Merom (notebooks), and Woodcrest (workstation/servers). All are based on Intel’s Core technologies, and all three are 64-bit-capable dual-core processors with shared enhancements.
4. All three variations (Conroe, Merom, and Woodcrest) will provide more computing power and use less energy. This will help laptops extend their battery life. It will also enable system builders to come out with thinner desktops and workstations, since lower energy means less heat, which results in fewer fans hogging case space.
5. Expanding on that, lower power also means that the fans used will be slower, so your system will be quieter. With more PCs landing in the living room or in quiet dens, “quiet” is more important than ever.
6. Core 2 Duo is, for now, engineered to drop right into some current Pentium D/EE (LGA775) motherboards (with some BIOS/Firmware updates). This will make upgraders happy—especially those who bought the latest and greatest PC last summer—and system manufacturers, who don’t need to buy a bunch of different parts (and won’t have to learn the intricacies of a new socket)—yet.
7. Multitasking moves to the next level. With Core 2 Duo’s virtualization technology, you can turn one physical PC into several virtual systems, all running different applications and OSs. For example, theoretically you could run an FTP server on one, a Web server on another, have a database running on a third, and still be playing a game or surfing on a fourth. This is a boon for developers who want to keep “clean” virtual machines running.
8. Today, only business PCs have the TPM 1.2 protection chip built in. With Core 2 Duo, all PCs will be protected. TPM (Trusted Platform Module) protects your passwords, logons, and personal data at a hardware level from hackers, spyware, and identity thieves.
9. About the lame code-naming convention: Conroe, Merom, and Woodcrest don’t exactly call to mind “speed” or “kickin’ performance.” Intel’s desktop and workstation CPU design offices are in Oregon, California, and Texas, so it makes sense that the towns of Conroe (Texas) and Woodcrest (California) are represented in Intel’s code names. And Merom? That’s an ancient lake in Israel, so two guesses where the laptop chips are engineered.
10. When can you get one? Intel wants its Core 2 Duo processors in systems within a few weeks of the official launch, which rumor mills have as the last week of July. Look for systems in early August.
article by: Joel Santo Domingo
