Laptops Arena

Whether you are looking for an entertainment notebook, or just a portable system that doesn’t have problems running multiple applications, this HP g60-235wm notebook is the right one. 

One thing that has in common all notebooks from g60 series is the beautiful design, with glossy black cases; these will make an impression wherever you go. And even the features aren’t worth left behind as they perform multi-tasking and other multimedia software and games without any problems.

For better understanding the features, let’s see the components and the product’s specifications. To start with, HP g60-235wm is powered by the AMD Turion X2 RM-72 Dual-Core Mobile Processor, dual-core processor means double power, taking speed and performance at a higher level. The memory installed is the maximum you get, which is 4GB. It will be more than enough to be able to run applications smooth. The video graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8200M will allow you to play some middle-level games and run some demanding software. You are even able to stream video, edit photos. The total memory on the hard drive is 250GB, giving you enough space to store all your files, applications, games, media albums and so on. What is more, with the LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support you are able to write both CDs and DVDs saving all you have on your notebook in case you want to do a recovery.



The1 5.6" Diagonal High Definition HP BrightView Display with 1366x768 resolution delivers excellent image quality with bright and vivid colors. Even if you are watching movies from a further distance you don’t have to worry about those annoying black lines on the screen.  And the size (15.6”) is perfect to see all your favorite videos and be able to read headlines without concentrating too much, like it happens on those mini-laptops. As regarding internet and networking you have all the possibilities: a high speed 56k modem, integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN and for wireless connectivity 802.11b/g WLAN. Sound is provided by Altec Lansing speakers. The keyboard has 101-key compatible and the touch pad has on/off button and dedicated vertical scroll up/down pad. Regarding external port, this HP g60-235wm notebook has all it takes: 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader, three USB ports, one port for each headphone and microphone, one HDMI port, one for VGA, one port for modem and one for LAN. The notebook measures 14.88" (L) x 9.9" (D) x 1.38" (min H)/1.61" (max H) and weights 6.52lbs. The 6-Cell Lithium-Ion battery life depends on the configuration and on the applications you use.



The operating system is Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit and besides this you get other pre-installed software like HP Help & Support Center, HP Recovery Manager, HP Total Care Advisor, HP DVD Play, Muvee Reveal, Adobe Acrobat Reader, HP Games Powered by Wild Tangent, Microsoft Works and Norton Internet Security 2009 for your online navigation security. The warranty is for one year and the online tech support is unlimited, from where you can download drivers, manuals, have the chance to talk with live technicians in case you encounter any problems.

You have probably heard of the iPhone smartphone or about the iPod music player, or about the Mac laptops, or about the Mac OS X operating system, or about the Logic Studio music software. In case you wonder what all of these products have in common, the answer is the producer.

They are all made by Apple, a large multinational American company.

The Mac laptops are known to be really expensive, but also powerful and reliable devices. And for today we’ll discuss more about one of them, and we are going to choose the Apple ® - MacBook ® White, Model: MC 516 LL/A which has a price of exactly 1,000 dollars. So it is an expensive one, especially for one with such a small display screen, but it is also really slim, light and powerful. It has the Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo processor that features a 1066 MHz frontside bus, 3 MB on chip shared L 2 cache and  a 2.4 GHz processor speed. The RAM memory is ok, but it could have been better for this price – it has 2 GB of DDR 3 SDRAM (which can be expanded to 4 GB). The optical drive is a slot loading multi format DVD ± RW / CD - RW SuperDrive with double layer support which records up to 8.5 GB of data on a single DVD. it has a 13.3 " widescreen LED backlit display with  a 1280 x 800 resolution  and it will offer stunning images. The hard drive is quite good too, having a big capacity of 250 GB and a speed of 5400 rpm.



The graphics card is the NVIDIA GeForce 320 M graphics with up to 256 MB DDR 3 SDRAM shared video memory for impressive images. It has most of the ports you might need including 2 high speed USB ports, audio ports, a VGA port and others. It has a built in iSight webcam and omnidirectional microphone for video chatting and Web conferencing. And for you to easily connect to the internet, it comes with built in high speed AirPort Extreme wireless LAN card (802.11 a / b / g / n) and also built in 10 / 100 / 1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet LAN with RJ 45 connector. It measures just 1.1 inch thin and has a small weight of just 4.7 lbs so it is really portable. It comes with an installed version of the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and some other Apple software: iLife '08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand), Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari and more. And finally it is Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines.  Enjoy it!

Best Buy is a large chain of retail stores from the United   States of America and other countries, which is specialized in selling all sorts of electronic devices. And among them there are hundreds of models of laptops, with all sorts of prices and features. You can see al the products of the store on its official site  and here you can also find a lot of laptop sales.

And for today we’ll take an example and discuss more about it, for example the HP – Factory Refurbished Pavilion Laptop with AMD Athlon ™ Neo Processor – Black, Model: dv 2 - 1039 wm. The original price for this model was 500 dollars, but now you can buy it for just 430 dollars. So you save 70 dollars, which is a really good deal.

This is quite a good laptop on sale, and now we’ll discuss more about its features. It has an AMD Athlon ™ Neo processor MV 40 and a RAM memory of 4 GB DDR 2 DIMM. Its optical drive is the Multiformat DVD ± RW/ CD-RW drive with double-layer support, that can record up to 8.5 GB of data on a single DVD. the display screen is not very big, but not very small either. It has just the right size to offer a good video quality as well as a good portability for the laptop. It has a 12.1" WXGA LED high definition widescreen display with Bright View technology and a 1280 x 800 resolution. For such a small laptop it has a really large hard drive, with a capacity of 500 GB and a speed of 5400 rpm. The graphics engine is really good too, and it comes with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD Premium 3410 graphics which features up to 512 MB dedicated memory. So you can definitely use this laptop for playing video games too. and it even comes with a HDMI port so that you can connect it to a High Definition TV and have an even better video quality. The sound is nice too, thanks to the Altec Lansing audio with SRS Premium Sound.



There is also a 5 in 1 media reader on this laptop with support for  Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card formats. It has all the ports you might need, including 3 high speed USB ports. It has built in wireless LAN (802.11 a / b / g / n) and built in 10 / 100 Ethernet LAN with RJ 45 connector so that you can easily connect to the internet. It weighs only 3.8 lbs. and measures just 1.3" thin so it is a really portable laptop. it comes with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP 1) preinstalled and some installed programs such as: Microsoft Works, Cyberlink DVD Suite, Adobe Acrobat Reader and a 60 day trial version of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition. And finally it is Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines.

One of the best producers of laptops in the world is Acer, which is a large multinational corporation that operates all over the world and which produces many other devices such as: computers, notebooks, PDA-s, servers, displays, peripherals, storage devices and also software products. For today we’ll make an Acer notebook review and we’ll choose to discuss about the brand new model – the Acer Ferrari One.

As you can tell from its name and from its cool design, it is made in collaboration with the Ferrari company, one of the best brands of supercars in the world. A Ferrari is not just about speed, it is an expression of beauty, power, excitement and pleasure – and this is what the engineers at Acer had in mind when they created this laptop. Actually it is more a netbook, and this is because it has a 11.6 " TFT  WXGA display screen, with 24 bit (16.7 million colors) – CineCrystal technology and a resolution of up to 1366 x 768. The Acer Ferrari One was probably made as a response to the netbook from Alienware – the Alienware M 11 X, and even though it is not as powerful as that one, it can still be a good laptop for gaming. Its processor is the AMD Athlon 64 X 2 L 310 / 1.2 GHz ( Dual Core ) which is quite really good for a netbook. It comes with a memory of 4 GB DDR 2 SDRAM – 667 Mhz and with a large hard drive of 250 GB. It is quite small and really portable, with overall dimensions of 11.2 in x 8 in x 1.2 in and a weight of just 3.3 lbs.

It even has a 5 in 1 media card reader, with support for: SD Memory Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MultiMediaCard, xD-Picture Card. Its graphics engine is good too, and it has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 video card. The sound will be good too, thanks to the DirectSound, High Definition Audio and Dolby Home Theater features. It also has a built in webcam with microphone and both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet. The Lithium Ion battery has a good battery life of up to 5 hours and it comes with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Edition. It is also Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines.



It has most of the ports you might need, such as: 1 video PCI Express port, 1 VGA port, 1 Ethernet port, 3 high speed USB ports, 1 audio port and 1 microphone port. It has 1 year of warranty and comes at quite a big price for a netbook of 640 dollars. The producer also offers a lot of installed programs so that you can use it right after you buy it. Among them there is the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat Reader, WinDVD, Acer Launch Manager, Google Toolbar, Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Google Setup, Acer GridVista, Windows Live Essentials, Acer Assist, Norton Online Backup, McAfee Internet Security Suite (Trial), Microsoft Office Personal 2007, Acer Crystal Eye, Acer Video Conference Manager, Microsoft Works 9.0 and the Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (60 days trial). Enjoy it!

Geeks.com is a site, and also an online store specialized in selling computers, laptops, and many other types of related electronic products. It offers hundreds of cool and quite cheap products, including many models of new and refurbished Acer laptops. and one of them is the Acer Aspire One AO 532 H – 2789, and about this one we’ll discuss more today. This is a netbook, so it is quite a small laptop.

Like most of the netbooks it is not very powerful, but it has a small price, small dimensions and a good battery life. Its overall dimensions are: 1.2 - 7.75 x 10.25 x 7.25 inches (H x W x D, approximate) and a weight smaller than 4 lbs. So you can easily take it with you wherever you go, and use it whenever you need it. As we said it is not very powerful, so you can’t use it for complex activities, but for browsing the internet it can be just great. After all this is the main purpose of a netbook.

Its processor is the Intel Atom N 450 with a speed of 1.66 GHz and with 512 KB cache. The RAM memory is quite ok, and it has  1 GB DDR 2 667 MHz SDRAM. It has a silver patterned exterior, and a black interior and keyboard, so it looks quite simple and elegant. Its hard drive is ok too, and thanks to the capacity of 160 GB you can store a lot of files of any category. It has a 6 cell Lithium Ion battery and comes with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Starter 32 bit pre-installed w/CoA and reinstallation partition. Like any other netbook it doesn’t have an optical drive, so in case you really need one you will have to use an external one. the graphics card is the basic Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 while the sound is a Realtek High Definition Audio with 2 built in speakers.



Since its main purpose is connecting to the internet, it has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity - Atheros 10 / 100 Fast Ethernet and Atheros 802.11 b / g / n Wireless LAN. It also has a 5 in 1 media card reader with support for Secure Digital (SD), Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick Pro (MS PRO), MultiMedia Card (MMC) and  eXtreme Digital Picture Card (xD). Even though it is a really cheap laptop of just 230 dollars, its features doesn’t end here and it also has a built in webcam with microphone for video chatting online with friends and family. Its keyboard is a QWERTY one with all the keys except the numeric ones, while the display screen is a 10.1 inch TFT Crystal Brite LED Backlit LCD (with a resolution of 1024 x 600). It features most of the ports you might need including 3 high speed USB ports, one VGA port, one security lock slot, one RJ 45 Ethernet port, one microphone port, one headphones port and finally a DC input. Enjoy it!