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Coinciding with Intel's launch of Haswell, NVIDIA updated their mobile GPUs with a bomb of a part: a fully enabled GK104. Today we have MSI's flagship gaming notebook, the GT70 Dragon Edition, featuring three SSDs in RAID 0, a Haswell quad core, and a GeForce GTX 780M.
The 2011 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch): Thoroughly Reviewed
I've always liked ultraportables. Back when I was in college I kept buying increasingly more portable notebooks until I eventually ended up with something horribly unusable for actual work...
115 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/28/2011
Verizon Bringing 4G to Galaxy Tab 10.1, HP DM1 and Radio Shack
Verizon PR was working overtime today. Big Red had two product announcements and a partnership with Radio Shack that brings America's #1 Wireless Network, and the iPhone and Android...
19 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/26/2011
Alienware M11x R3: Portable Powerhouse
We've been keeping track of Alienware's M11x series since the very first one landed and have had the privilege of testing each one. The move from Penryn to Arrandale...
55 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/22/2011
Alienware M14x: the Sound and the Fury
Understanding that many users would just as soon want to be able to game on the go without having to lug a ten pound land monster with them, Alienware...
48 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/19/2011
Archos 80 and 101 G9 Tablets: The Fastest Tablets In The World?
Archos is shedding its downmarket reputation while preserving its downmarket price with the release of the G9 series of tablets. Available in 8" and 10.1" form factors and starting...
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gScreen SpaceBook: Back to the Future with Dual Screens?
gScreen has released two SpaceBook-branded laptops that sport dual 17.3” 1080p monitors. That makes SpaceBook the laptop with the most real screen estate with over four million pixels. gScreen...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 7/17/2011
AMD Raises the Mobile Performance Bar with Radeon HD 6990M
AMD’s last update to their mobile GPU lineup is now over six months old, which means we’re about due for another new part. Right on cue, and not long...
34 by Jarred Walton on 7/12/2011
CyberpowerPC's Compal PBL21: The Shark's New Teeth
The last time we took a look at a Compal whitebook (again courtesy of CyberpowerPC), we noted to Compal that their whitebook wasn't a shark, perfect and needing no...
16 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/11/2011
AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011
If desktop graphics hardware can be more than a little confusing, deciphering performance of mobile graphics parts can be (and has historically been) an absolute nightmare. Way back in...
83 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/5/2011
Sony Updates Vaio Z: Light Peak and An External GPU
Sony has announced an updated Vaio Z lineup today. Vaio Z is Sony’s premium 13” laptop series which essentially packs performance of a 15” laptop into a smaller form...
99 by Kristian Vättö on 6/28/2011
Alienware's M17x R3: An Antidote to Clevo
We've had our hands on quite a few gaming notebooks here, but most of the time they're Clevo-based machines. These aren't necessarily bad notebooks; they're fast, typically have good...
84 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/20/2011
Samsung Central Station: The Future of Laptop Docking?
Back at CES 2011, Samsung showed us something that may have seemed futuristic. They showed us a monitor that connects to your laptop wirelessly and on top of that...
50 by Kristian Vättö on 6/14/2011
The AMD Llano Notebook Review: Competing in the Mobile Market
Today has been a long time in coming; we first heard about Llano way back in 2008, but even then the target date was 2011. Even so, AMD has...
177 by Jarred Walton & Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/14/2011
Acer Moves Forward in Time
Acer's popular TimelineX line of notebooks has undergone a refresh to Sandy Bridge and brought a healthy number of upgrades to the hardware with them, including a major (and...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/9/2011
Dell's Latitude Gets Rough and Ready
While a business-class notebook is often a good idea just for reliability’s sake, what if you need something tough enough to be used either as a murder weapon or...
15 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/7/2011
Toshiba Tecra R850: Business Class on a Budget
Toshiba won't mind if we say that their previous business class notebooks looked...kind of cheap. They were bulky and unattractive, largely feeling like consumer notebooks with matte instead of...
39 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/6/2011
AVADirect's Clevo X7200 Redux: AMD 6970M CF Takes the Crown
A little over seven months ago, we took at look at a Clevo X7200 courtesy of AVADirect that featured a desktop hex-core processor and a pair of NVIDIA's then-fastest...
44 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/2/2011
New Intel Marketing Terms: Smart Connect & Rapid Start Technology
In our Ultrabook article from earlier this evening I mentioned that Intel would be enabling a new technology with Ultrabooks that allows your applications that require real time updates...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
The Ultrabook: Meet the New Thin and Light Intel Notebook
It's too cliché to proclaim netbooks are dead. Perhaps the appropriate phrase is netbooks are no longer interesting to write about, but they do have a roadmap going forward...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
ASUS 2011 UX Series: Ultra Thin and Light Sandy Bridge
ASUS just unveiled its 2011 UX Series, which looks a lot like a MacBook Air: p.p1 span.s1 The new UX comes with a 6Gbps SATA SSD, although ASUS didn’t...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011