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Acer Aspire Ethos 5951G
Laptops have been the new desktops for a while now – and their specs continue to get closer to the big boxes of just a year or so back. Acer’s Ethos series aims to provide everything you might need for home entertainment and gaming, and even the less expensive model, the 5951G, offers an impressive…
Verbatim Portable USB Audio Bar
Buying a new laptop, whether it’s a netbook for social networking, a rugged device for business travel, or even a serious gaming machine with all the latest graphics, involves some careful choices over technology. But not matter how sophisticated the laptop, one area of universal complaint is about the general level of audio quality.The Verbatim…
Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB (WD10JPVT)
While SSDs get all the plaudits for speed, the good old mechanical hard disk drive still can outdo its flashier cousins when it comes to offering huge capacities at a reasonable cost – which in turn means very low cost per gigabyte. A prime example of this is the latest member of Western Digital’s Scorpio…
Toshiba Satellite Pro R850-143
The Satellite Pro R850 is a Windows 7 Professional notebook aimed at business users, and decked out in functional black with a grooved texture running across the lid. That lid itself is thin and feels a little plasticky, but the overall build quality is sturdy, particularly the chunky chrome hinges that open and close the…
Asus Automobili Lamborghini VX7
Remember the days when laptops used to be square, black and boring, had very low battery life and couldn’t even begin to compete with a desktop PC for power and performance? Thankfully those days are long gone – and manufacturers now give as much time to visual attractiveness as well as power under the hood….
Dell Latitude E6420 ATG
There are laptops and there are rugged laptops. And somewhere in between are ‘business rugged’ laptops. These are tough and solid, with some extra protective features – but not up to being taken into warzones. That’s the category into which Dell’s Latitude E6420 ATG slots. It has a non-rugged cousin, the plain old Latitude E6420….
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook
The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is such an annoying product. It’s nicely made, and the idea behind it is clever. But for all its good points, it’s expensive and, quite simply, it doesn’t do enough. Head in the cloudThe idea behind the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is that people don’t really need anything stored locally…
Toshiba Portégé R830
Ultraportable laptops have a big job to do. They have to be small and light, but pack a good screen and quality features. And it would be good if they weren’t too expensive. Toshiba’s Portégé R830 doesn’t tick all the boxes, but then what ultraportable does? The price is high When you look at the…