Category: Notebooks

Intel launched its first 22nm processors on April 23, 2012 and we are not finally seeing notebook manufactures releasing notebooks with Ivy Bridge processors. MSI rolled out GE60-i547 powered by Core i5 3210m processor today. This CPU runs at 2.5GHz clock speed and automatically overclocks to 3.1GHz under turbo mode. Like other i-series Ivy Bridge [...]

AMD is all set to introduce its new Trinity processors, R-464L and R-272F next week and it appears that the company will include few embedded parts as well into the package. The company compared R-464L and R-272F to the similar sandy bridge processors and bested them in the GPU department. related queries: amd r-464l, R-464L [...]

Sony has been making lightweight notebooks like Sony Vaio Z (see our Vaio Z disassembly post to see how small its innards are) from quite some time. It weighs just 1.14 kilograms and packs no-compromise hardware inside. Recently, the electronic mega-giant announced Vaio T – its first attempt at an Ultrabook. It comes in 11 and [...]

Intel HD 4000 has replaced the HD 3000 integrated GPU in the Ivy Bridge processors. These processors are manufactured with smaller manufacturing process (22nm) and produce much less heat than the previous generation processors. The test was done on our new notebook that came with the Ivy Bridge i7 3820QM processor and 16GB RAM. We [...]

Sandisk Extreme SSD is one of the few consumer-grade solid state drives that breaks 6Gbps barrier with ease and offers a better dollar-to-GB ratio than similar SSDs. Starting at 190 dollars for the 120GB model, it offers exceptional read and write speeds at very competitive price. While some high end Intel SSD drives might beat [...]

Lenovo has rolled out a couple of ThinkPad models under its Edge series – Edge E130, E135. Both have similar configurations except for the fact that E130 has Core i-series processor, while the E135 will come with an AMD Vision processor (think, AMD A4, A6). related queries: lenovo e130, ThinkPad E130, lenovo e130 spec, lenovo [...]