Last week we launched a new sort of buyer’s guide for AnandTech with our Best Budget Ultrabook recommendation. We’ll be fleshing out the “best XYZ” recommendations for other components and categories over the coming months, but for now my focus is on the notebook sector, and the plan is to have a new recommendation for laptops every Friday. Last week was a budget Ultrabook, and this week is the true budget category for all laptops. Let me know what you’d like me to cover next, keeping in mind that there are probably five or six categories of laptop that I’ll rotate through on a regular basis. With that out of the way, let’s talk briefly about the budget laptop sector. Laptops comprise everything from Chromebooks...
Toshiba Satellite U845W Ultrabook Review: Going Wide at 21:9
It's sometimes very easy to discount Toshiba as an also-ran when it comes to the latest and greatest. They have a strong retail presence as a budget notebook company...
59 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/16/2012AVADirect Clevo P170EM Part 2: GTX 680M Grudge Match
We took Clevo’s P170EM for a spin last week, equipped with a Radeon HD 7970M and a variety of other high-end options. Today we have our follow up where...
58 by Jarred Walton on 10/15/2012Acer’s Upcoming Aspire M5 and V5 Windows 8 Laptops
Continuing our coverage of Acer’s Windows 8 offerings, we’re nearing the end of the roadmap with the consumer laptop offerings. This time, Acer is announcing the updated versions of...
29 by Jarred Walton on 10/12/2012Toshiba Satellite U845: Ultrabooks Go Mainstream
At CES, Toshiba showed us its forthcoming 14” Ultrabook, a system that they said would debut alongside Ivy Bridge in Q3. At the time, it was overshadowed by their...
56 by Vivek Gowri on 10/8/2012Razer's Project Fiona Gaming Tablet Confirmed for Production
Razer garnered a lot of press at CES this year with their Fiona gaming tablet, a 10.1" Windows-based tablet packing a Core i7 processor and two joystick handles featuring...
35 by Vivek Gowri on 10/4/2012The New Razer Blade: Thoroughly Reviewed
Earlier this year, Razer handed me a Blade evaluation unit and told me to go wild. Considering the company had no previous experience with developing PC laptop hardware, I...
59 by Vivek Gowri on 10/3/2012Testing AMD’s HD 7970M Enduro Hotfix
I just posted the full review of the Clevo P170EM from AVADirect, but there’s a ton of content specific to the Clevo notebook and I know many of you...
40 by Jarred Walton on 10/2/2012AVADirect Clevo P170EM: Has AMD’s HD 7970M Got Game?
A couple weeks back, we posted something of a first look at the Clevo P170EM when we did our overview of AMD’s upcoming Enduro 5.5 release. As one of...
61 by Jarred Walton on 10/2/2012Acer Announces Upcoming S7 Ultrabooks with Windows 8, We Go Hands On
Last week we met with Acer to go over the fall product stack, and we’ll have a bunch of announcements over the coming two weeks all leading up to...
26 by Jarred Walton & Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/2/2012NVIDIA Quietly Releases GeForce GTX 670MX and GTX 675MX for Notebooks
Testing the Alienware notebooks with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680Ms while seeing reviews for the GK104-based GeForce GTX 660 Ti and GK106-based GeForce GTX 660 go up has been interesting...
31 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/1/2012HP's ElitePad 900 Windows 8 Tablet: No Short Skirt, But a Couple of Long Jackets
The major vendors have been doing the rounds out here in sunny California, gearing up a series of product launches to go hand-in-hand with Windows 8's launch later this...
31 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/1/2012Alienware M18x R2 Notebook Review: NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680M in SLI
Around the launch of the Alienware M17x R3, Alienware essentially bifurcated its high end notebook offerings into single-GPU (the M17x R3) and dual-GPU (the M18x). The M17x R3 was...
46 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/28/2012AMD’s Enduro 5.5 Public Beta Driver Available
About three weeks ago, I met with AMD to go over some concerns with their Enduro graphics switching technology. At the time, AMD gave me a preview release of...
44 by Jarred Walton on 9/26/2012Additional Details on Micron’s DDR3L-RS, DDR4-RS, and Other Memory
Earlier this week we posted a short write-up about Micron’s new DDR3L-RS memory. We didn’t have a lot of technical detail to go on at the time, but Micron...
23 by Jarred Walton on 9/22/2012Alienware M17x R4 Notebook Review: Ivy Bridge and the GeForce GTX 680M
Alienware recently updated their Bronze Editor's Choice award-winning M17x R4 gaming notebook to include Intel's Ivy Bridge processors and optional AMD Radeon HD 7900M series graphics or NVIDIA's new...
60 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/21/2012The iOS 6 Review: Maps Thoroughly Investigated and More
By this point, we’re all familiar with Apple’s revised release cadence for iOS and iOS devices. Introduce a new iOS release at WWDC, beta test it through to the...
103 by Brian Klug & Saumitra Bhagwat on 9/19/2012Intel's WiDi 3.5: Much Faster, USB, Miracast Support and New Receivers
Two years ago Intel introduced its wireless display technology (Intel WiDi) that uses the host CPU to encode a stream of whatever is on your screen and send it...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/19/2012Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook Hands On at IDF 2012
Intel worked very closely with Acer on its upcoming lineup of Windows 8 tablets and Ultrabooks. As a result, Acer is featured front and center in many of Intel's...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012AMD’s Enduro Switchable Graphics Levels Up
A couple weeks back, I contacted AMD to let them know I was working on a notebook review—a Clevo P170EM from AVADirect with HD 7970M graphics. Much to my...
200 by Jarred Walton on 9/6/2012Samsung Reveals Additional Details on Series 5 and 7 Slates and Ultrabooks
Along with their ATIV, Smartphone, and Series 9 coverage and their Galaxy Note II, Samsung has released additional details for several upcoming Windows 8 Ultrabooks and Slates. The Series...
18 by Jarred Walton on 8/31/2012
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