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HP ProBook 4510s

With the Elite Enterprise and Small-Business Books commander of HP Compaq business notebook line, you’d think the two brands would be sufficient to hold the fort. HP laptop is out to prove that its new ProBook is a worthy third segment, which has been crowded as a family. The HP ProBook 4510s is one of the three desktop-replacement in this new line, which their manager, some fashionable yet affordable solutions selection. The 15.6-inch (16:9) widescreen glossy finish and look are new keyboard, which can be found on a consumer-oriented laptop, or had a style-minded towards the company.

Apart from some sloppy design details, the HP 4510s ProBook be of immense value to a small business, mainly because of its price. Its functions and performance scores also assume that it is a relic in three or four years, and battery life, both notable for the six-and eight-cell battery. The more expensive Lenovo ThinkPad T400 is more stable and better off, but if a faster processor or a better graphics card, the ProBook, including the 4510s, need, is highly configurable as well. HP ProBook 4510s Review

HP ProBook 4510s Review

ProBook completely new series of HP notebooks for mainstream business users only. New series, it brought a new design and proportions so new HP ProBook 4510s found themselves in new, rapidly growing, category 15.6 inch notebooks. As previous models of HP 15.4 “S” class (6730s and 6735s) were very popular this new series is sure to attract significant numbers of customers attention. Can new ProBook series live up to its ancestry and heritage will be available.

HP ProBook 4510s is simple. Actually, would anyone even say that it is “vintage” design similar to the old IBM laptop has. The frame is made of black plastic and has flat surfaces and “sharp” edges. Stiffness is average, not as a surprise, because it had not come, after all, “S” model, that can not be compared, much more expensive, “b” and “P” series. Cover is made of black plastic piano finish that collect all the traces of fingers ever touched him. Display frame and keypad area in the vicinity are from the same plastic. Fortunately, hand rest from frosted plastic cloth is not reach for the maintenance, that frequent task. Another color variation called “Merlot Red” (dark red) is announced, and judging by the pictures, it becomes much more attractive than the black.


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Keyboard is better segment of this notebook. Consequently, in these days very popular MacBook Design by large gap between the buttons. Alpha numeric portion of the keyboard is good, and without significant bending although not suffer significant number pad bending especially along the right edge. HP has struck on this issue and we have information that is in the final retail version will be corrected. Cursor keys are nice, they differ will be no problem. This is nice feature, since many newer notebooks that we had checked, the cursor keys “blended” with number pad. Touch pad is shifted to the left, center, with “Space” key, the good position. Touch-pad keys are separated and are similar to the keys of a piano: only the lower part responds to pressure. We also like the fact that touch-pad keys are almost silent as it should be on a business notebook.

Number and distribution connections are very good. Two USB ports are located on the left and two on the right side, so that there are no problems with the mouse cords. Small surprise came in the form of Card 34 Express slot instead of the usual Card 54 Express. Modem phone jack connector is protected and for this reason, you can overlook its position.

As mentioned above, HP has ProBook 4510s 15.6 inch display with 16:9. Display has energy-efficient LED-backlit display and solid image. Our model had glare display, but good news is that there are models with non-glare (matte display). The speakers are hidden on the keyboard and behind bars. The speakers have a reasonable sound for a business notebook. Webcam on the other side is very good. The image is sharp and with a good frame rate (in 640×480 mode).


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Intel Core 2 Duo X4500 CPU and graphics card are the usual combination when it comes to business notebooks. This combination levels are clearly defined and expected. On the other hand, when it comes to autonomy, which we were really impressed. In sleep mode power consumption is very low HP ProBook 4510s was (similar to the use of an optimized netbook) especially if we take into account, 15.6 display. Thanks to these characteristics, the autonomy of 6 hours. Warming up was minimal, although cooling system it has a bit louder under full load. If you plan to upgrade memory, we suggest you to do it immediately, as access to the memory slots is from the top, and it can be difficult to do it yourself.

We should also mention that, HP 4510s and HP 3D Drive ProBook Guard system for hard disk protection with drop or similar. Business users will also be such as HP QuickLook second This is “mini-operating system” which allows access to data without loading Windows OS Outlook. Of course, you have to install Outlook and use it on a daily basis. On HP site Windows XP and Vista drivers for 32bit and 64bit versions can be found. If the memory on more than 3GB 64bit Windows drivers and upgrade plan solution is recommended.

HP ProBook 4510s is mainly characterized by its large autonomy for a notebook (not netbook) with 15.6-inch display. Unfortunately, this comes with high price, but if you are looking for a small business notebook with long backup this one of the best decisions.


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DELL Vostro 3400

Dell is smart release of the new Dell laptop – Vostro 3400, the new notebook for small business purposes. Dell Vostro 3400 is a good combination of mobility and performance. This laptop is powered with Intel Core i3 350M at 2.26 GHz, 2 GB DDR3 memory and 320 GB hard drive capacity. This laptop is an upgrade of the previously released Dell Vostro 3300. This new series is more powerful processor and some minor upgrade to the exterior design.

Dell Vostro 3400 is an evolutionary design change for Dell’s line of small business laptops. The Vostro 3400 is itself a mixture of plastic and metal construction, the difficult balance between business-grade durability and affordable small business tries to strike. The 14-inch high-definition (1366 x 768) panel on the Dell Vostro 3400 offers vibrant colors, the only reasonably a bit cool (blue) to the default settings. DELL Vostro 3400 Review

DELL Vostro 3400 Review

The Dell Vostro 3400 comes with a sleek and stylish design, the noble enough business suit, while his sentiment is stylish enough to attract normal users. It has dimensions of 13.35 x 9.54 x 1.16 inches and weighs about 4.8 kg, which makes it very compact and slim.

It looks great in black and silver and has an excellent build quality. The chassis is rigid and the body is very durable. It is available in two colors: silver and brownish-red. It has an access panel that allows you to easily upgrade the RAM and hard drives.

It comes with a 14-inch high-definition display with LED backlight. It has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The picture quality is quite good, but the resolution is a bit on the lower side. It has really good angles and has a good contrast. The LED-backlit display is impressive and improving the life of the battery. The display cover is a bit of flex, but apart from that, the display is well.


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The Dell Vostro 3400 comes with built-in speakers that offer decent audio quality with adequate volume. They come in handy when just short videos, but with a headset for music or listen to much to recommend movies.

The Vostro 3400 is key pitch with an excellent keyboard with full-size keys and decent. The keys have a pleasant atmosphere and offer good feedback. It is one of the best laptop keyboards around.

Below the keypad is the touchpad, the multi-touch gesture support. It has a scroll bar on the right side and the two buttons underneath. The touchpad provides just the right amount of sensitivity and is very accommodating. The keyboard touchpad combo is very satisfying.

The Dell Vostro offers customized hardware options. You can fit your budget and needs. The entry level $ 549 option comes with the Core i3 M 370 processor at 2.4 GHz, 2 GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Integrated Graphics and a 250 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. You can use the configuration of the Intel Core i5 520-M processor upgrade to 2.93GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500 GB drive and the Nvidia GeForce 310M graphics processor with 512 MB VRAM. It comes with Windows 7 Professional, Home Premium Windows 7, which can be upgraded. It also has an 8x DVD-RW optical drive. This is mentioned the price increase at the higher level.


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With the i5 Core processor, 4GB of RAM and the Nvidia GeForce 310 M card, while the performance but a significant increase in battery life suffers a bit. You can simply editing and games at moderate settings. The basic things like editing text documents, chat, web browsing, movies, etc., can be easily treated.

The Dell Vostro 3400 comes with a lot of expansion ports and connectivity options. It has three USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB eSATA port, VGA and HDMI ports for video output, an Ethernet port, card reader and an Express Card slot mumory. It also offers a Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n adapter and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR for wireless data transfer.

It has a 6-cell 56 Wh lithium-ion battery, which is quite capable. With moderate use, it can last for up to 4 hours. You can further extend battery life by setting the screen brightness, volume, etc. It also comes with the option of a 9-cell battery, which offers much better battery life.

Conclusion

The Dell Vostro 3400 is a great business laptop that offers an elegant design, a wide range of hardware options, a nice display and good battery life. It is definitely worth checking out if you are looking for a new laptop. You should also up this list of best budget laptops under $ 1000.


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iBUYPOWER unveils new gaming desktops

I mentioned the new gaming laptop from iBUYPOWER. The company has also unveiled a pair of new gaming desktops based on the NVIDIA GTX 460 graphics card, which was recently introduced. The new systems include the Paladin E370 and Paladin F860 aircraft.

The two new desktops just like Dell Studio XPS 16 using a standard clocked GTX 460 graphics card provides decent performance without breaking the bank. The E370 also has a liquid-cooled Intel Core i5-750 CPU, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB and storage. The machine is in a cool PSI Cyclone X gaming case packed with prices starting from $ 834.

Paladin The F860 has the same GTX 460 graphics card and uses an Intel Core i7-930 CPU, a motherboard AsusP6T SE, 6GB DDR3 RAM, and has an 8x Blu-ray drive and 1TB storage capacity. The F860 sells for $ 1849th

iBUYPOWER unveils new 3D Battalion 101 W860CU-3D notebook

iBUYPOWER been busy start many new computer systems in the past few months. The company has announced a new 3D gaming notebook called Battalion 101 W860CU-3D. The notebook supports stereoscopic 3D games and 3D Blu-ray movies.

The machine the same as Dell Studio XPS 16 uses the Intel Core i5-520M mobile processor and has 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray optical drive, NVIDIA GTX285M graphics and a widescreen with a 120Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 1366 x 768 LCD. The machine uses the NVIDIA 3D vision goggles active.

The notebook runs Windows 7 Home Premium and has a 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD. Burn The Blu-ray drive, CDs and DVDs and the MSRP for the 3D gaming notebook is $ 1749.

Samsung N220 Plus Premium Unveiled

The Samsung N220 may not be the highest or fastest-selling netbook be out there, but it’s still a pretty capable machine. Especially if you are on the market for a netbook. And while we are sure that Samsung is more than with him please, that is not to stop them from creating an improved model. Keeping many of the same features, but the improvement in areas that are important to some people out there, the N220 is just another good addition to the Premium Plus Samsung netbook line-up.

Like its predecessor, the N220 like Samsung N150 has the Premium Plus 10.1-inch screen, powered by a 1.66 GHz Atom N450 processor, and battery life is clocked at around 11 and half an hour. As for the differences, you will have happy to 2GB of RAM now installed a larger hard drive with 320 GB disk space, a chiclet keyboard, SDXC memory card slot, and Bluetooth 3.0. As for pricing, you’re looking at about 399 or about $ 500. However, there’s no word on whether the N220 will be made available to Premium Plus in the United States.

Asus unveils its GTX460 video cards

NVIDIA GTX 460 graphics card launched recently and Asus has their own models to have offers on the market. The new graphics cards support 3D Surround Vision, DX11, PhysX and CUDA as the other GTX 460 cards on the market.

Asus claims that its cards on the average GTX Go 460 offers with performance enhancing features such as DirectCue thermal design on ASUS G51VX-RX05, EMI Shield, and the hedge. DirectCue cooling solution is an exclusive technology Asus with 8mm copper heatpipes which flattened directly to the GPU for improved heat transfer.

There are two models available, including the top with ENGTX460 768MB RAM with two heat pipes and the top ENGTX460 1GB card with three heatpipes. The cooling solution Asus claims a 20% better cooling than reference designs, and should contribute to better overclocking for enthusiasts. The line of graphics cards for laptops starting at $ 199.99.

Lenovo ThinkPad X201

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 have awesome prices. You do not have to pay for the cosmetics, you pay for electricity and support. Lenovo ThinkPad X201 could be a 12 hours of battery runtime with a Core i7 promise is very impressive. It only use Intel GMA graphics, but with Nvidia Optimus technology would seamlessly switch only when you need it.

The touchpad looks really out of place. Lenovo laptop should consider free-CTO Touchpad options with $ 50 premium. Personally, I prefer to use the nipple of the touchpad anyday. Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is a nice enough laptop, but by far not the most powerful of these titles would T900 Fujitsu or Toshiba M870 belong. But I still like it. Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Review

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Review

If you are looking for ultra-portable notebook, offering high performance, the Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is a new 3636 is the ideal choice. It excels in all departments from design to performance. It supports running on the Intel Core i5 processor with integrated Intel graphics. The ThinkPad X201 sports high-resolution 12-inch display, large keyboard with touchpad good, decent port configuration, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive. The battery life is excellent. It handles the multitasking with ease. The design is also beautiful, with the exception of the inclusion of larger trackball. It is available at a price of $ 1700 to $ 1800.

Design

The design of the X201 is almost the same as the rest of the Lenovo ThinkPad series laptops. The X201 looks pretty attractive and it seems to be more beautiful. His body has black metallic finish that firm grip in your hand. The changes in the ThinkPad during the year are very subtle.

The X201 has a traditional, decent tapered-key keyboard. Today, several laptop makers to go flat island-style keyboards. However, the buttons on the X201 are large and comfortable way. The most important keys such as Shift, Alt and Tab are good size. The palm rest has been squeezed to make room for larger keyboard.


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The touchpad is relatively small compared to other notebooks. Touchpad has a good response and there it is convenient to use. However, we had to pinch some of the problems-to-zoom on this laptop. The mouse buttons are currently on the bottom. Lenovo also larger than usual trackball with dedicated keys for them. It is unnecessary because it has a decent touch pad and is also available in Stampfer some of the keys of the keyboard.

Lenovo includes an app called ThinkVantage on the X201. It is a blue button dedicated for this gift just above the keyboard. It provides quick access to diagnostic and security tool, Lenovo and other support functions Lenovo accessories kit.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X201 has 12.1 inch wide screen LCD sports display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. This resolution is generally a standard 13inch 14inch and laptops to see happy about this 12-inch model. Noticeably, it is 16:10 of 1366 768 native version seen on a 16:9 screen with widescreen laptops. The display is bright, crisp, lively and colorful. The photos, videos and Web pages look absolutely stunning on this laptop.


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Features

The ThinkPad X201 is powered by robust “Intel Core i5 M540″ processor with 2.53 GHz. It is a single-core processor that supports an integrated Intel graphics. Lenovo includes generous 320 GB hard drive and 4 GB of RAM. It is included with ThinkVantage suite of professional security features that help in better system management. It is also pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. The laptop can handle all the multitasking programs easy, but it can not be possible to treat high graphics programs. You can play all current games on this notebook.

The port and network configuration of this laptop are pretty standard. It has 3 USB 2.0, SD card reader, VGA video output, stereo speakers, an Ethernet port, Wireless-N Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth, optional mobile broadband, and only a few audio-outs. It must have either HDMI or DVI port featured on this price range. There is no capacity for extra add RAM and hard drive.

The ThinkPad X201 has standard six-cell battery. It provided an impressive battery life of 6 hours 52 minutes of continuous video playback. The numbers are usually all we see is in the best netbooks. Lenovo has managed to build this using the large battery and smart power management in the Lenovo ThinkVantage software to achieve.

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 includes a standard one year warranty on parts and labor. It also offers 24 x 7 telephone support. You get good online manual, E-mail Support FAQ book, and you can download several drivers from the site. Lenovo offers systems the extension of the warranty premium.


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