Philip Barker - 6 April 2009 - 4:58pm Total war has been around in one incarnation or another for a little while now, but the addition of sea battles for Empire: Total War聽makes this game a totally different beast. While we haven鈥檛 had the opportunity to get involved in the full game, we have...
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Laptops 17-inch screen Gaming Over 3.5kg Rock Alex Bentley - 2 April 2009 - 3:44pm UK-based Rock is best known for its highperformance gaming laptops. The Xtreme 780 (拢1699 inc. VAT) is a prime example, and its quad-core processor and high-end graphics deliver fantastic gamin...
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Netbooks Philip Barker - 1 April 2009 - 5:11pm The go-anywhere nature of your netbook means you鈥檙e likely to take with you, well, anywhere. This means you鈥檒l be needing a case of some sort to keep it looking fresh, and few are neater or more convenient than Tucano鈥檚 Easy sleeve PC slip c...
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Tommy Melville - 7 April 2009 - 1:04pm This afternoon we were lucky enough to get a brief hands on HP鈥檚 forthcoming Pavilion dv2 laptop. Aimed at those after a machine with the portability of a netbook and the power of a laptop we were keen to see what the laptop had to offer. It certainly lo...
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Move over, notebooks. Netbooks may soon become the personal computer of choice for millions of end users, according Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs. In a Bloomberg interview at the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas, Jacobs predicted the netbook鈥檚 rise could happen 鈥渞elatively quickly,鈥?although he decl...
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Microsoft's latest Laptop Hunters commercial just came out and it is guaranteed to open up a second front among Mac and Windows fanboys. This time, our shopper is Giampaolo, a nondescript, hip young guy on the lookout for his dream machine priced under $1500 (poor Lauren, in Microsoft's first ad ...
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Netbooks 10.2-inch screen Intel Lenovo Under 2kg Alex Bentley - 1 April 2009 - 4:51pm Lenovo is renowned for its high-quality business laptops, and is the latest manufacturer to enter the thriving Netbook market. The lightweight IdeaPad S10e (拢299 inc. VAT) provides fantastic...
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Netbooks Philip Barker - 30 March 2009 - 4:09pm We heard rumours last week about an Asus Eee PC netbook with an integrated optical drive 鈥?completely blurring the lines between netbook and laptop 鈥?and thanks to our friends at Electric Pig we now know this machine is definitely set to ...
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News Tommy Melville - 31 March 2009 - 5:00pm This messenger bag is designed to hold laptops of up to 13.3-inches in size. The relatively small main compartment features a dedicated envelope for your laptop, as well as space for books and stationary. Two other pockets provide room for an ...
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General Review Smartphones HTC Smartphone Philip Barker - 27 March 2009 - 5:09pm HTC鈥檚 Touch range includes some of the best Windows Mobile handsets you can currently buy. The intuitive and finger-friendly TouchFLO software is a great addition to the often fiddly Windows OS and, w...
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Laptops Tommy Melville - 3 April 2009 - 2:20pm Zoostorm鈥檚 Fizzbook range grew out of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The Fizzbook Go was the first machine, and its portability, usability and ruggedness impressed us.聽 The Spin (拢359 inc. VAT) builds on the Go鈥檚 strengths, whil...
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News Tommy Melville - 27 March 2009 - 5:09pm Some laptops, especially those with metal chassis, tend to get very hot after prolonged use, and this can make them pretty uncomfortable to work with. A laptop stand is a good solution to the problem. There are many different brands to choose fr...
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Tommy Melville - 3 April 2009 - 2:37pm The Acer Aspire 6930G (拢529 inc. VAT) is aimed at those on a budget looking for an all-in-one multimedia package. The laptop is packed with features, boasting a powerful graphics card, Blu-ray drive and a 16:9 aspect ratio screen. The laptop is spacious ...
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Philip Barker - 3 April 2009 - 5:06pm The Motormouse is the ideal gift for Porsche fanatics 鈥?a Bluetooth mouse shaped like a Porsche 911. It鈥檚 not a perfect recreation 鈥?the front lights differ in a bid to make it more ergonomic 鈥?but otherwise it鈥檚 a faithful recreation. The rear window of ...
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Netbooks Philip Barker - 2 April 2009 - 9:05pm HP鈥檚 MiniNote 2133 turned out to be one of our favourite netbooks of the past year, helped by a keyboard that was streets ahead of rivals. Although not the perfect netbook, it was a good foundation for its successor 鈥?the HP Compaq Mini 703E...
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This better not be some wacky April fool's joke: MSI Computer's Wind netbooks are about to receive a couple of interesting new features. Namely 3G/WiMAX support and even a TV tuner. That is just some of the news to slip out of this week's CTIA show (the International Association for Wireless Tel...
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Will the cellular service business model work for laptop computers? AT&T seems to think so. The wireless provider is offering subsidized netbooks for as little as $49.99 in two markets, Atlanta and Philadelphia. The catch is that buyers must sign a two-year contract for an AT&T dat...
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Cutting costs is crucial for computer manufacturers and the buying public, which explains the flourishing popularity of Netbooks -- mini-sized and budget-priced laptop computers. But how can manufacturers dice the price even further? Hewlett-Packard might have the answer: use Google's Android O...
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Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 鈥?Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion Faster than you can say Red State vs. Blue State, Microsoft's latest ad has set off a class war between Windows and Mac fanboys. If you haven't seen the ad, basically, shopper Lauren tries to find a laptop under $1000 and ends up getting a...
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Taiwan's AsusTek Computer has played a major role in defining the netbook computer genre. Its Asus Eee models, along with competing mini-notebooks such as the Acer Aspire ONE and Lenovo Ideapad , have proven popular with consumers willing to sacrifice a few features -- full-size keyboard, large...
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