It’s been a couple of weeks since our last “best laptop” article, mostly because I had concerns about recommending anything with AMD’s Richland and Intel’s Haswell processors right around the corner. At this point, it looks like Haswell is going to be a relatively small portion of Intel’s shipments for the near term, with a heavy focus on higher performance quad-core parts and Ultrabooks—basically, a focus on the more lucrative markets. AMD’s Richland APU on the other hand will be a drop-in replacement for Trinity that offers slightly faster CPU and GPU performance, but nothing earth shattering. That leaves plenty of room for laptop recommendations for the next several months, and today we’re going to look at the business sector. Let’s first start by discussing...
Eurocom Racer: Why the Radeon HD 6970M Rocks
When Eurocom offered to send us their latest Racer notebook, we were mildly intrigued. Then they upped the ante by giving us the chance to put AMD’s latest and...
48 by Jarred Walton on 3/17/2011More of AMD’s Brazos E-350 with the MSI X370 and Sony VAIO YB
It may have taken some time for AMD’s Fusion to finally arrive, but now it’s here and we’re starting to see a decent number of Brazos laptops. We’ve already...
42 by Jarred Walton & Dustin Sklavos on 3/14/2011The MacBook Pro Review (13 & 15-inch): 2011 Brings Sandy Bridge
Last year at the iPad introduction Steve Jobs announced that Apple is a mobile device company. Just last week Steve returned to introduce the iPad 2 and point out...
197 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug & Vivek Gowri on 3/10/2011Lenovo Announces ThinkPad X220 Series: 12" IPS with Sandy Bridge
We try not to bring you too much news about product announcements unless there's something particularly intriguing about them; we get inundated by them and most of the time...
68 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/10/2011Toshiba Satellite L645D: Mobile AMD at 3GHz
While the drought of Sandy Bridge notebook hardware is thankfully approaching its sweet, merciful end, there are still a healthy amount of AMD-based notebooks on the market at good...
61 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/9/2011MSI Giveaway: GT680R Sandy Bridge Notebook
I've been working with MSI for nearly as long as AnandTech has been around. So when MSI came to us with a giveaway opportunity we jumped on it. The...
4685 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/8/2011ASUS G73SW + SNB: Third Time’s the Charm?
With the Cougar Point chipset glitch starting to fade away, we’re starting to get Sandy Bridge systems in for testing. ASUS sent us over an earlier version of their...
57 by Jarred Walton on 3/4/2011The iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 Announcement
Today, Steve Jobs took a sabbatical from his sabbatical to hop up on stage and tell us all about the iPad 2, the next revision of Apple’s wildly popular...
104 by Andrew Cunningham & Cara Hamm on 3/2/2011AVADirect's Clevo P170HM with GeForce GTX 485M: High-End You've Been Waiting For
When we reviewed the Clevo W880CU and, by extension, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480M, we were perplexed. Certainly NVIDIA had reclaimed the mobile graphics crown and no one could dispute...
28 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/28/2011MacBook Pro 2011 Refresh: Specs and Details
As expected, Apple today unveiled a range of speed and functionality improvements for its MacBook Pro lineup. The update was unusually quiet for Apple. There was no scheduled press...
130 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/24/2011HP's Business Notebook Hat Trick
It's fair to say the refreshes HP announced for their consumer computers earlier this month seemed fairly lackluster. While nobody can complain about improved notebook speakers and the triumphant...
47 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/23/2011Sony EE34: Sony Makes Budget AMD Laptops?
You can't buy it from Sony's website. If you blinked you might have missed the news popping up on a couple of different sites about its existence. If you...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/22/2011HP dm1z: Taking Fusion on the Road
HP's been on board AMD's ultraportable bandwagon since the chipmaker first shipped the underwhelming Congo platform, and HP continued to produce reasonably compelling not-quite-netbooks with the Athlon/Turion II Neo-equipped...
108 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/21/2011Mobility Sector Updates: Waiting for Sandy Bridge and Market Analysis
The past week shook up the whole computer industry with Intel’s announcement that a potential flaw in their Cougar Point chipset required a respin to fix. In the ensuing...
49 by Jarred Walton & Vivek Gowri on 2/7/2011AT Bench Update: Now with Mobile, Smartphone, and GPU 2011 Results!
Since starting our Bench results databases, they've grown by leaps and bounds. Bench is a central place where you can compare products based on the variety of tests and...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/1/2011AMD’s Brazos vs. Atom Thermals, Revisited
Last week we met with AMD at CES to see some of their latest and greatest offerings. We already reported on the meetings in our earlier article, but in...
154 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2011CES 2011: Toshiba's Tablet and Glasses-Free 3D
We had a chance to visit with Toshiba on the CES 2011 show floor and were able to lay hands on their prototype Tegra 2-powered tablet along with checking...
15 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/9/2011AMD and GlobalFoundries, CES 2011
The entities formerly known as AMD—namely, AMD and GlobalFoundries—are both here in Vegas for CES, and we had an opportunity to stop by and discuss their current and future...
73 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2011NVIDIA GeForce 500M: Refreshing the 400M
Just four months ago, NVIDIA released their top-to-bottom 400M lineup. Since the announcement, it took about a month but we then got the ASUS G73Jw (460M), Dell XPS L501x...
29 by Jarred Walton on 1/5/2011ASUS Announces Eee Pad and Eee Slate Tablets
With CES 2011 upon us, we must acknowledge that 2011 could well be the “Year of the Tablet”. Everyone—Motorola, Dell, HP, HTC, Acer, you name it—is releasing a tablet...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 1/4/2011



















