Laptops
One of the most significant talking points of the last six months in mobile computing has been Intel and their disaggregated Meteor Lake SoC architecture. Meteor Lake, along with the new Core and Core Ultra naming scheme, also heralds the dawn of their first tiled architecture for the mobile landscape on the latest Intel 4 node with Foveros packaging. In December last year, Intel unveiled their premier Meteor lake-based Core Ultra H series, with five SKUs ranging from two with 4P+8E+2LP/18T and three with 6P+8E+2LP/22T models. Since then, many vendors and manufacturers have launched notebooks capitalizing on Intel's latest multi-tiled Meteor Lake SoC architecture as the heart of power and performance, driving their latest models into 2024. Today, we will focus on an attractive ultrabook...
HP 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 2/21/2011
Mobility 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 2/7/2011
AT 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 2/1/2011
AMD’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 1/14/2011
CES 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 1/9/2011
AMD 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 1/7/2011
NVIDIA 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 1/5/2011
ASUS 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
Intel’s Sandy Bridge i7-2820QM: Upheaval in the Mobile Landscape
Ever since the Sandy Bridge preview, we’ve been waiting to see what Intel’s new architecture could do for mobility. No longer would quad-core notebooks require discrete graphics solutions, and...
66 by Jarred Walton on 1/3/2011
ASUS N53JF: Midrange 15.6” 1080p, Take Four
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a 15.6” notebook walks into the AnandTech labs, sporting NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 425M and a 1080p display…. Yes, for the fourth...
65 by Jarred Walton on 12/28/2010
CyberpowerPC's Compal NBLB2: Affordable Gaming
Periodically the Compal NBLB2 (and its predecessors) has popped up on our comments as an alternative 15.6" notebook with a 1080p screen, and people have been asking for a...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/21/2010
HP Mini 5103: Looking at the Dual-Core Atom N550
Netbooks are all so similar in terms of performance that it’s difficult to get excited about reviewing “yet another netbook”. Aesthetics and build quality may change, but outside of...
59 by Jarred Walton on 12/17/2010
HP Envy 17: HP's MacBook Pro Killer?
You demanded them, we listened, and finally some fruit fell from HP's tree. We have an Envy 14 in house getting tested right now, and today we bring you...
85 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/16/2010
Anand's Thoughts on Google's Chrome OS
Fifteen years ago if you wanted to write an application that would run on over 90% of the world’s personal computers, you only needed to target one OS. Today...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2010
HP EliteBook 8740w: IPS on the Go
The search for a notebook with a quality screen, at least in the mainstream sector, can often feel like a futile one. Outside of Jarred's recent love affair with...
63 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/8/2010
IBM's ThinkPad T42 LCD: A Blast from the Past
As a vocal proponent of improving laptop LCD quality—and LCD quality for desktops as well—the past few years have been painful. True, laptop LCDs have never been at the...
98 by Jarred Walton on 12/7/2010
Dell Latitude E6410: Minding Intel's Business
Business centric laptops are something most people have used at some point or another, but they're not always the first devices to get reviewed. The reason is pretty simple...
51 by Jarred Walton on 12/2/2010
Logitech Laptop Speaker Z305
One last journey into the land of audio yields curious results; when last we spoke with Logitech they gave us the Z515 wireless speaker set, a curio that seemed...
29 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/1/2010
Acer's Aspire 5551G: AMD's Budget Gaming Laptop
When someone talks about budget gaming on a laptop, a lot of things might go through your head. Are they talking about ten year old games on netbooks? Maybe...
36 by Jarred Walton on 11/27/2010
ASUS EeePC 1215N: Bringing NG-ION to the 1201
When we first looked at the ASUS Eee PC 1201N last year, we thought it was a unique take on the netbook idea, and possibly one of the first...
41 by Vivek Gowri on 11/25/2010
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