Laptops Arena

Apple notebook says it all and adding MacBook to it gives it more speed, power and battery life. This is one notebook that does it all and gives everything. The price is $999 and we don’t have to mention the stunning design, slim and compact. This is one of the most affordable and advanced Mac notebook ever.

It is powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor with improved speed of 2.0GHz.  It comes in two colors, white or sleek black, unfortunately Apple notebooks don’t have other colors available but if you really want to add some you can get a notebook case or skin to personalize it. It comes with 1GB of RAM, but it has two SO-DIMM, so you can add another GB to increase the storage and speed of the notebook. What is more, this Apple notebook has Bluetooth built-in and AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi for updating five times the performance as the previous generation.

Even if it is compact and slim it does have an 8x double layer burning SuperDrive for DVDs and also double-layer media. Apple notebooks are designed mostly for multimedia purpose and that is why every MacBook has iLife '06, representing applications which will help you store, process and edit digital files. Using iPhoto you can share high-resolution photo albums with your friends through e-mail. If you feel inspired and have some songs in mind, with GarageBand you are able to record your songs. And it doesn’t stop here; film making is also possible with iMovie HD and iDVD. Then you can put your work on the internet and who knows?

Video chatting looks so great now with the in iSight camera, you can also take some snapshots using the Photo Booth application. It features 16 photo effects; it allows you to create web videos using the related iMovie. Multimedia experience doesn’t stop here, you get an Apple Remote and with Front Row you can navigate your music, movies or photos even if you are in bed watching a movie, or at a coffee place launching your first video or personal photos slideshow. Let’s not forget about the 13.3” widescreen display that provides only the best picture quality. The glossy screen even makes web surfing or text document reading more pleasant. The resolution is 1280x800 pixels giving you enough room for multitasking.



It’s also important to know that Apple notebooks are now “greener” than ever, because the screen does not contain mercury or arsenic. The battery life is also impressive; it is rated to last up to 10 hours. It is lithium-polymer and in addition the NVIDIA graphics processor improves the battery life using less power while you perform your tasks. Here also, Apple has emerged into environment-friendliness by improving the battery life, so you don’t have to recharge it so often and it will last three times more as other notebook batteries. You will have about 5 years without needing to think of a replacement.



Using the Multi-Touch trackpad, you can use more than one finger to change between documents, web pages, pictures or applications. The whole trackpad is a button, so clicking anywhere on it will perform your command. This will improve the speed of working and also give you more space.

There are so many producers of notebooks on the market, and each company has so many models that it can be quite really difficult to choose the right one. It all depends on the main activities that you are planning to do on your future laptop. Maybe you like to play complex video games, or maybe you like watching movies at a good quality, or maybe you do complex tasks such as video editing or you simply want a laptop for browsing the internet. No matter which is your favorite activity, there will be a laptop for you.

You will find both cheap laptops and expensive ones, so you will also need to figure out which is your available budget. For today we’ll make a short review about one of the cheap laptops on the market, and we are going to choose the brand new Compaq - Presario Laptop / AMD V-Series Processor – Black, Model: CQ 62 – 228 DX. This one has a really small price of just 330 dollars at Best Buy. And it is not a refurbished laptop, or a netbook as you might expect for this price…it is a regular laptop with a display screen of 15.6 inch. Its processor is the AMD V-Series processor V 120 while the RAM memory is 3 GB DDR 3 SDRAM (which can be expanded up to 8 GB). It has a good optical drive, 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 a 15.6 " LED high definition display with Bright View technology and a 1366 x 768 resolution. It has a hard drive of 160 GB and a speed of 7200 rpm, which again is really good for just 330 dollars. The graphics engine is a basic one, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics which features up to 1405 MB video memory. It also has 3 high speed USB ports, built in high speed wireless LAN (802.11 b / g / n) and built in 10 / 100 Ethernet LAN for easy access to the internet. It weighs 5.5 lbs. and measures just 1.4 " thin, so it is a portable laptop that can be taken almost anywhere you go. The battery life is quite good too, and it can last for up to 4 hours and 15 minutes. It comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system and some installed software programs such as: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Cyberlink DVD and Microsoft Office 2010 Starter also included. And finally it is Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines.



So here was a short review of a really cheap laptop made by Compaq. It is quite a good one for this price, and the overall customer rating is 4.2 stars out of 5 (4.8 for value for price, 4.6 for display, 4.2 for performance and 4.4 for convenience). In case you too own this laptop, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, whether if they are good reviews or negative ones. Have a nice day!

Today most of the people are preferring to buy a new laptop instead of a new desktop computer…and we can’t judge them. These days the laptops are really powerful, and they can perform any task that a computer does. But besides this they are much smaller, thinner and lighter than the desktop computers, and they can be taken anywhere and used whenever you need them. There are many different models of laptops on the market, from many producers such as: HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Apple, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, MSI, Alienware, Gateway and others.

For today we’ll focus on just one of these companies – Asus, and we’ll discuss more about one of the top rated laptops from this producer, the Asus - Laptop / Intel ® Core ™ i7 Processor – Black, Model: G 73 JH – RBBX 05. On the site of Best Buy it has a really good rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 and 139 reviews (and most of them are positive reviews).

This is a really powerful laptop, and also an expensive one with a price of 1,300 dollars. But the features it has are very good, and they will definitely worth the money. It has the best processor on the market right now for laptops, the Intel ® Core ™ i7 – 720 QM processor which features 1333 MHz system bus, 8 MB L 2 cache and 1.6 GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.8 GHz. The RAM memory is also very big, offering you 6 GB of DDR 3 memory, for a great multitasking power. The 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, while the hard drive has a very big capacity of 500 GB.

It also has a speed of 7200 rpm for fast read and write times. The graphics engines is very powerful too, and you can definitely play complex video games on this laptop. it has the  ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics with 1 GB GDDR 5 video memory for lush images. Its display screen is really large, it has a 17.3" LED LCD high definition plus widescreen display with a 1600 x 900 resolution. But if this size is not enough for you, then you can connect the laptop to a High Definition TV and enjoy movies at an even better quality – thanks to the HDMI port.



It also has a built in 1.3 MP webcam  for video chatting online and a facial recognition feature for protecting your information. It has a very good 8 in 1 media card reader that supports Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, SmartMedia and xD-Picture Card formats. Since it is a large laptop it has plenty of space for all the ports you might need, including 4 high speed USB ports, audio ports, HDMI port, Ethernet port and others. It has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet and a good battery life of 2 hours and 27 minutes. But since it is such a large laptop, you will mostly use it at home, so the battery life is not really important. It weighs 7.5 lbs. and measures just 2.2" thin. It comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system and some installed programs including Adobe Reader 9.1.

So here was one of the top rated laptops made by Asus. In case you already own this specific model, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it. Have a great day!

A notebook computer means exactly the same as a portable computer. A notebook (also known as a laptop) has all the components found on a PC (display screen,  mouse, keyboard, processor, RAM memory, hard drive, etc) only that they are all integrated into a single, small unit. Besides the small dimensions, a laptop can also work with an included battery, which means that you don’t always need an outlet. So you can take your laptop with you anywhere, and handle all of your usual  activities.

There are many companies that are making notebook computers and one of the best of them is Toshiba. So for today we’ll make a short review about one of the Toshiba laptops, and we’ll choose this model: the Toshiba – Black, Model: C 655-S 5068. This is not a very expensive laptop, so it can be placed in the category of budget laptops. It has a small price of 480 dollars, but its features are really nice, especially for this small amount of money, it has the Intel ® Pentium ® processor T 4500 which features an 800 MHz frontside bus, 1 MB L 2 cache and 2.3 GHz processor speed and a very good RAM memory of 4 GB DDR 3.

The 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 while the display screen is a 15.6 " TFT LCD widescreen display with TruBrite technology and a 1366 x 768 resolution for intense detail and clarity. It has a hard drive with a capacity of 320 GB and a speed of 5400 rpm, so you have plenty of space to store all sorts of files. You can’t expect to have a very powerful graphics card for such a small price, so it has just the basic Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 M which features 128 – 1341 MB dynamically allocated shared video memory.

It also has a 5 in 1 memory card reader that supports Secure Digital, Secure Digital High Capacity, miniSD and MultiMediaCard formats. It has 2 high speed USB ports, built in wireless LAN (802.11 / b / g / n) and built in 10/100 Ethernet LAN with RJ 45 connector for quick and easy access to the internet. It weighs 5.5 lbs. and measures just 1.5" thin so it is really portable and it also comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system. It doesn’t have just an installed operating system, but also some programs such as: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Works 9 and a 60 day trial version of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007. And finally it is Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines.

So here was a short review of one of the cheaper Toshiba laptops, but of course there are many more other models made by this company that can have all sorts of prices, sizes and features. In case you already own the Toshiba laptop, Model: C 655-S 5068, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, whether if they are good or bad ones. Have a great day!

In the previous article we discuss about a good laptop made by the company Sony that had a 15.4 inch display screen, and for this article we’ll present a model with a smaller screen, a Sony 13.3 inch laptop. And we are going to choose the Sony - VAIO Laptop / Intel ® Core ™ i5 Processor – Black, Model: VPCZ 12 LGX/B. even though it is smaller than the previous Sony laptop we presented, it is even more powerful, and even more expensive. Its price on Best Buy is 1,800 dollars.

It comes with the next best model of processor after the Intel Core i3, the Intel ® Core ™ i5 – 430 M processor that features a 3 MB L 3 cache and 2.26 GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.53 GHz. Its RAM memory is similar to the previous model – 4 GB of DDR 3 memory that can be expanded up to 8 GB. The optical drive is also 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. its display screen is a 13.1" LED backlit widescreen display with  a 1600 x 900 resolution. It is a really small and very slim laptop, and it weighs 3 lbs. and measures just 1 " thin.

This is a really good thing for the portability, but not such a good thing for the size of the hard drive. A regular one would not fit in such a thin laptop, so it has a Solid State hard drive of just 128 GB. So you can still store a lot of files, but not as many as on the previous model which had 500 GB. This one also comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system and some installed programs such as: Sony Creativity Suite PMB VAIO Edition and VAIO Media Gallery. Microsoft Office 2010 Starter is also included. Another big advantage of this small laptop would be the battery life, and it can last for up to 6 hours and 30 minutes. It has a built in biometric fingerprint sensor to offer more security and a built in MOTION EYE webcam with microphone and face tracking technology. It has 3 high speed USB ports, built in Intel ® Centrino ® Wi-Fi Advanced - N 6200 (802.11 a / b / g / n) as well as built in 10 Base-T/100 Base-TX/1000 Base-T Fast Ethernet LAN with RJ - 45 connector for easy access to the internet.



And it also has built in Bluetooth A2 DP (2.1 + EDR) interface so that you can easily connect to Bluetooth enabled devices such as mobile phones or MP3 players. Even though it is so small and thin, it has a very powerful graphics card – the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 M with Intel ® HD graphics which features up to 1 GB of dedicated video memory. So you can definitely play complex video games on this laptop, and if you are not happy with the size of the display screen you can connect it to a High Definition TV thanks to the HDMI port.

It has a 3 in 1 media card reader too with Memory Stick PRO and Memory Stick Duo formats with MagicGate functionality and also a Secure Digital media card slot. And finally it is Energy Star Qualified so it uses less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines.  So if you are looking for a really slim and quite powerful laptop, you can choose this Sony 13 inch laptop, but you will have to pay quite a lot of money for it.