The Samsung Chromebook XE303 is one of the thinnest, lightest, and least expensive laptops available today. It’s the third Chromebook from Samsung, which means it’s a laptop designed to run Google’s Chrome OS operating system. The $249 laptop is also the first Chromebook to feature an ARM-based chip instead of an Intel processor, and one […]
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Brief review: AMP1000 Android Media Player – Video
The Diamond Multimedia AMP1000 is an Android Media Player. It’s about the size and shape of a USB DVD drive, but it has the guts of an Android smartphone or tablet. You can hook it up to your TV and use the wireless remote control to run Android apps on a big screen. That includes […]
Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet Review
Every notebook manufacturer seems in a rush to push ultrabooks on everyone, but there are still some of us who don’t want to sacrifice productivity for portability. The $1,289Â Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet isn’t competing to be the lightest or thinnest ultraportable around. Instead, it makes the case that a small package can pack real power […]
Acer Aspire V5 11.6″ Ivy Bridge notebook review
The Acer Aspire V5-171 is a thin and light notebook that proves you don’t have to pay top dollar to get an ultraportable computer that offers decent performance. It has an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5-3317u dual core Ivy Bridge processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 500GB […]
Toshiba Satellite U845W widescreen ultrabook review
It’s not easy to make a laptop that stands out in a crowd. But Toshiba managed to do just that with the Satellite U845W. It’s the first ultrabook to feature an ultra-widescreen display with a 21:9 aspect ratio. What’s not clear is whether this represents the first in a new breed of laptop designs, or […]
Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 Android tablet review
Lenovo’s IdeaTab S2109 is a mid-range Android tablet that has a dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, an Android 4.0 operating system. But there’s one thing that makes the S2109 stand out from the crowd: It has a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display with a 4:3 screen aspect ratio. Most Android tablets gave […]
Lenovo IdeaPad U310 ultrabook review
The Lenovo IdeaPad U310 is a portable notebook with a 13.3 inch display, an Intel Core i5 processor, and a case which measures about 0.7 inches thick. Outfitted with a 500GB hard drive and a 32GB solid state disk, the IdeaPad U310 fits Intel’s definition of an ultrabook — and Lenovo markets it that way. […]
HP Pavilion dm1 (AMD E2-1800) review
The HP Pavilion dm1 is a small and light weight laptop with a low starting price of $399. HP has been offering versions of this little laptop for a few years, and recently upgraded the DM1 with AMD’s second-generation Brazos chips. AMD Brazos 2.0 processors are relatively low power chips that offer better performance than […]
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook 550 review: Is less more?
Chrome OS is an operating system designed to run one app: the web browser. As such, there is virtually nothing you can do on a laptop running Chrome OS that you can’t also do on a Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop with the Google Chrome web browser installed. But that’s beside the point. The point of […]
Coby Kyros MID9742 9.7 inch Android 4.0 tablet review
Coby produces low cost consumer electronics, but cheap doesn’t necessarily mean bad. The Coby Kyros MID9742 Android tablet may not be in the same class as the Asus Transformer Pad — or even the Amazon Kindle Fire. But the MID9742 sells for half the price of the former and offers a number of features you […]