Portable Computer Laptops Reviews

Dell Computer Corporation really has a different way of dealing with their customers both from the business and personal sector. Dell Latitude CPX Notebook is just one of Dell's beautiful computers designed to provide high-quality performance. It comes in a sleek moonlight-black design, with a cool dark bezel in the middle. This corporate-focused model is fast, modestly priced, and provides a no-nonsense, security-conscious design. If you want a powerhouse notebook, better snag this unit.

The laptop only costs $3400, which is not too hefty compared to its contemporaries within the same price range. Like many other models with the latest Pentium 3 processor, you can buy this unit with Intel wireless card. The 14.1" Liquid Crystal Display Screen TFT provides good images that won't sting the eye. The audio is also nice with the virtual sound surround it offers. It is packaged with an external battery gauge which lets you check the battery life without switching on your notebook.

First things first, a laptop will not work without a powerful battery, right? Dell's battery life is not at all pleasing as it renders three hours on basic computing, and two if you watch a video on it. If you want to upgrade the unit, which is tedious, you'll need to remove the system's module. The processor is a bit fast, yeah, but the Internet connection is quite sluggish. Is it Dell's problem or with my DSL provider? I don't know because I rarely use the Internet.

Travelers who are dreaming of a fast, ultra portable and cheap as chips laptop could do much better with the Asus A7J Notebook. It is a semi-light machine running on a Dual Core Intel engine processor, enticingly priced at $1,670. I personally like this product because it is not so light and not too dragging. If you have dollars to shed or a credit card to swipe, then consider this model an answer for your computing needs.

Only 8.8 pounds, without the peripherals and just 1.5 inches tall, the unit is easy to setup in your desk or hide in your briefcase. For stingy computer users, the price is already an awesome value because it has the same price with refurbished machines. Furthermore, the audio provides virtual surround sound. The black matte-finished keyboard is touchpad-equipped so I guess it's as normal as other keyboards.

The notebook is not shipped with extras like USB mouse and adapters. It also offers poor resolution of 1440 by 900. Anyway, the 17" Liquid Crystal Display screen delivers slightly pleasing images. With a poor resolution like that, I think I'd better watch DVDs with a real player than with this machine. You need to buy a USB model if you want a floppy drive. The memory is only 2GB, so it won't make a good storage device.

My cousin, Bien, works as a psychiatrist in her own mental-health clinic. Visiting her last Saturday, I noticed that her secretary has a new screensaver in her Toshiba portable laptop -- an animated dancing teapot singing the children's nursery rhyme "I'm a Little Teapot". Bien, who sees humor in almost everything posted a note on her secretary's desk: "Your laptop is suffering from an identity disorder."

A screensaver pops up every time a user leaves his computer unused for a couple of minutes. Sometimes it's as simple as a blank screen, or a monochrome screen. But most modern users today prefer to accessorize their laptops with screensavers, therefore, having cute and silly stuff flashing through their screens like a dancing teapot. A screensaver is actually a file ending in .exe or .scr that the operating system recognizes as a different program or application.

Screensavers are created to protect the monitors from phosphor burn. A phosphor is a chemical that coats the back side of the CRT screen. It displays fluorescence once it's excited with electron beams. But modern laptop users don't know this. They think screensavers are funny art stuff that bobs in and out of their screen annoying people around their desks. Therefore, having a dancing teapot on one's screen is not actually a bad idea.

First look at the Sony VAIO UX Micro PC, you'll think it's another personal digital assistant on the loose. But if you'll look closer, you'll realized that it's more like a smashed laptop. Anyway, this baby monster is Sony's new ultra portable laptop.

The baby monster has a cute 4.5" Liquid Crystal Display which surprisingly provides awesome eye-popping images. But if you're attempting to play a DVD movie on it, think again. Only idiots would want to squint their eyes on a movie screen. Running on the solo-core Intel processor engine and Microsoft XP OS, the cutie claims to handle even the most demanding office applications. Like other computers from Sony, this model also has the SmartWi Technology, which promises to give computer freaks a fast wireless Internet connection.

A computer this small is meant for goblins, and elves and not for humans, (if midgets are humans they shouldn't use this). Can you imagine rushing a humongous pile of marketing reports with this PC? Hell, I won't turn my career more infernal if I were you! It's not a full-featured computer contrary to what the company claims. It's as mobile as a portable toilet but it's not as usable as a toilet paper.

There's a new feature found in portable laptops and personal digital assistants that causes confusion to moronic buyers. Fingerprint scanner/reader is a tool that enhances ordinary passwords by reading the user's fingerprints. It works exactly like the price scanners in supermarkets that ignoramuses use when they don't know what a tag price is for.

It's actually very user-friendly: Just slide your finger on the device, then it will treat your finger like bar codes, and if the system recognizes your fingerprint it will give you an access to your computer. If I'm not mistaken, it was Microsoft Computers who introduced this technology to consumers as well as copycat companies. Laptops from Dell, Toshiba, and Hewlett-Packard employ this technology. Personally, I think it is a brilliant idea to simply swipe your finger on a reading machine than type long-forgotten log-ins and passwords to be able to use your computer. By this means, we can eliminate the risk of nosy colleagues hacking our PCs to grab MP3 files and well-kept porn pics. The only problem with this device is that there will be excruciating times when it will refuse to read your fingertips. So make sure your hands are always dry and squeaky clean especially right after you use the toilet.

Here comes another new player in the laptop world. Averatec does everything it takes to beat Dell Computers, Apple Computer Inc, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. The company is punching above its weight
with its aim of rivaling other mainstays in the computer industry. After the black, sleek notebook collection, the company recently came out with the white laptop series.

They've reinvented the wheel with its Averatec AV3715ED1. The unit looks more like an Apple MacBook at first glance. It runs on an AMD Sempron mobile engine and a Microsoft XP operating system that enable it to handle the most demanding office applications. This lame workhorse weighs only 4 pounds which makes it a little portable than any of its contemporaries. It's packaged with a lousy wireless local area network ensuring a boring Internet connection.

My gripes: The 12.1" screen is definitely not wide and brilliant. The features in the product specs are all hat, no cattle. The native resolution of 1024 by 768 is too good to be true. This machine failed to give pleasing images for DVD films. I hate raking something over the coals, but I sincerely think that this piece of metal is made in bad taste. I therefore conclude that this model is only good as a work tool but not for entertainment purposes.

Laptops are supercomputing and super confusing tools. The modern features in laptops today make them difficult to manage and understand even if you memorized the stupid product manual by heart. Take for example VAIO TX770P/B notebook by Sony, which is the quintessential symbolism of the word "perplexity".

Really, I'm totally perplexed with this product because it's jampacked with the most high-tech and unusable features that only the makers can understand. "It has the SmartWi, a technology exclusively integrated with Sony notebooks, which enables the machine to access the wireless Internet network through Bluetooth, wireless local area network (WLAN), and WWAN", explained the manual and the same time not explaining at all.

Equipped with an 11.1-inch screen, the laptop claims that it can serve as a stand-alone DVD player. But surely, a wise consumer will not waste his time watching Vanilla Sky in a small screen if he has a high definition television at home. I think Sony wants users to squint their eyes to appreciate the laptop's poor image quality. It's a good thing that the hard drive is quite big to load my spyware and virus pets, and the keyboard is equipped with an intuitive touchpad, or else, this whole product is a disgrace to the digital nature.

Calling the customer service department of any existing computer company is always a pain in the ass and an itch in the crotch. If you want a free ticket to a long and winding nightmarish experience, grab your phone and dial those literally hot hotline numbers. What I hate most about CSRs is that they make customers do that tedious, irritating process called waiting.

Yes, like with Dell Financial Services, I spent half an hour waiting for a rep to answer my call and another thirty minutes waiting for his explanation how on earth I incurred a late fee on my account! And you know what, I didn't understand a word he was saying. Maybe, he's got speech defect or we're having a bad connection; but I prefer it if he does have speech defect.

And it's a shame DFS hires people like that nasty little bastard to attend to my needs. Come to think of it, he didn't attend to ANY of my needs! Dell laptops and personal digital assistants are great, but with that kind of customer service, people will surely switch to Hewlett-Packard. Anyway, I don't hate DFS as a whole, okay? As a matter of fact, I love their automated voice prompt which didn't hesitate to inform me to press 0 to reroute my call to the operator. Jolly thanks!

Choosing a good laptop can be as easy as selecting a gigantic high definition television that won't fit in your living room and as hard as picking a booger using a fork. Now, let's forget about slimy boogers, and let's concentrate on notebooks with booger-colored screens. Acer TravelMate 2423WXCi is one of them, but this machine is definitely more interesting than watching your reflection while you stupidly clean your nose.

2423WXCi is packaged with a fast Celeron-mobile Intel engine and the immortal Microsoft XP operating system which makes it a fitting companion for most workaholics with printer inks on their clothes. The 14" Liquid Crystal Display screen is big enough to provide you a good view of your financial statements in spreadsheets and your grammatically incorrect resignation letter in word processor. With a native resolution 1280 by 800, it produces accurate color reproduction and more colors that you can't count.

Poor thing, this machine has no optical drive included. However, it has a hard drive with a big memory and a big space for spyware and adware. Weighing six pounds, and measuring 1.3 by 14.3 by 10.8 inches (HWD), I don't think it's very portable. Thus, it would be a good idea to try to stuff it inside a sack or a garbage bag if you're planning to bring it in the office.

Apple 15.4" MacBook Pro is a powerhouse of a notebook for the on-the-go computer user. Packaged with an Intel processor powered by the Core Duo technology, this machine can manage more office workloads than any other 15" laptop today. The new MacBook is a member of Apple Computer Inc. series of top-performing laptops to replace their old but equally good iBooks.

The price of the latest machine is $1700-$2000. It comes with a fast processor, 2GB of Random Access Memory, and a glossy Liquid Crystal Display screen. The screen has a native resolution of 1440-by-900 programming, and it did give out wonderful graphics when I tried to play some Xbox 360 games on it. Furthermore, with the imaging and graphic technology integrated in the machine, gamers can play as long as their battery can handle without the viewing fatigue.

The battery power is extremely impressive, clocking in at 5 hours and fifty minutes on just one charge. The unit is highly portable with a weight of 5.6 pounds and measurement of 1 by 14.1 by 9.6 inches (HWD). The touchpad-equipped keyboard makes typing easy with the deep keystrokes and uncompressed keys. This machine can also serve as a stand-alone DVD and CD player with a writer and burner included.

The Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 is an extremely extraordinary laptop because it is designed for the purpose of fulfilling your long-time gaming fantasies. Yeah, this computer is created to give more vivid images for your PlayStation and Xbox console games. Some gaming laptops have screens that are 12-inch in size or even smaller. But this one is kinda special because it has this ultra-clear 17-inch transflective screen that gives your graphics a more cinema-realistic appeal. However, at 1.41-x-10.8-x-15.5 inch HDW and weight of 7.1 pounds, this computer is a bit bulky and not to mention heavy. So I suggest you might want to buy a durable carrying case or backpack if you want to bring this computer in your office.

The display's resolution is 1440-by-900 programming, so I guess it's enough to provide accurate contrast and sufficient brightness. Furthermore, it is equipped with the nVidia GeForce graphic enhancement tool for a slicker game play and excellent colors. However, its battery power is not as pleasurable as its graphics because it can only give 2 hours of service. Overall, the performance of this laptop is great. However, the tag price of $1999 is quite hefty for a gaming machine that can't function up to three hours.

A high-res screen, abundant sound, and superb performance make the Satellite A105-S3611
multimedia notebook from Toshiba a real winner. The beauty's price of $1379 is a good deal considering that this notebook comes from the wide-range series of powerful laptops from a trusted company. A105-S3611 unit measures 14.2 by 10.5 by nearly two inches, and weighs 5.95 pounds, which makes this very ideal for travel.

It is packaged with a beautiful 15.4-inch, dazzling, wide-screen LCD the provides a pleasing image quality for scenes in your DVDs or screenshots of your Xbox 360 game. It also has a built-in rewritable DVD/CD drive and a storage capacity of 120GB. So far the performance it gave for DVDs and games is okay with smooth colors and no spaces between pixels, but if you want moer vivid graphics, try installing an nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics tool for a greater graphic memory.

There's more to rave about this product aside from its awesome transflective screen. The keyboard is very unique with deep keystrokes and the keys aren't compressed. Typing is a breeze for me because it also has its own numeric keypad. The battery life is superb because considering that this unit has power-demanding dedicated graphics, it renders up to three hours of service.

The Toshiba Satellite M55-S139 is a quick and artistically-designed ultra portable notebook that focuses toward its corporate users. The unit is a good replacement for your old Satellite R15-S822, and although it fails to have some of the modern features that we see in new laptops nowadays, like PictBridge capability, this one is still a good ultra portable notebook that you can have without abusing your credit card plastic.

Satellite M55-S13, is packaged with Intel 1.6-gigahertz Celeron processor with a whopping 512MB of DDR2. With a powerful Microsoft XP operating system to match, this powerhouse of a laptop can surely handle more workloads than most of its contemporaries. The keyboard is something to rave about because it is typically well-designed with the layout and deep keystrokes that even your lousy secretary will love.

It still keeps its intelligent Trubrite, that resides in the state-of-the-art 14-inch brilliant screen. I like its brightness because it serves as a light when I'm typing in dimly lit rooms in my house. My only gripe about this product is that it doesn't have a fingerprint reader found in other notebooks which can help in securing machines against intruders. But overall, this machine is terrific with regards to the design, the price, and the performance.

Fujitsu laptops are becoming in demand today; simply because the company was able to blend good looks, quality performance and cheap price into powerful products. Lifebook N3530, is living large as a 7.92-pound desktop replacement. Personally, I think this gadget is every inch of a multimedia notebook, with its 80GB hard drive, DVD/CD Combo, and a brilliant 15.4-inch widescreen. And unlike its predecessors, this one got a little better with its Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, a full-featured entertainment operating system that will make any movie-loving-computer-freak sing high praises.

The N3530 looks polished with its black finish that conditioned the inner and outer frame of the past Lifebook units. At 1.61 by 14.25 by 10.51 inches (HWD), I think this gizmo is wide enough to have its own numeric keypad. The keyboard is normal enough that even guys with stubby fingers can enjoy a comfortable computing experience. It also doubles up as a stand-alone DVD player that allows you to play and watch DVDs anytime you want.

This Japanese-made system has sufficient connectivity ports to cover all your audio and video needs like playing games through your Xbox game console. With the Intel mobile processor, N3530 can manage more office applications than any Fujitsu laptop I've tried. But my only gripe about this system is that the battery only lasts below three hours of service.

Laptops are very important gadgets that have now become a part of every working individual's life.
I, for one, can't leave the house nor my office without bringing my laptop with me, or perhaps check if it's secured. These multitasking machines are expensive, yet maintaining their shelf life can be even more hefty.

We carry these computers almost everywhere even if they're not as light as personal digital assistants. But the problem with these tools is that: when slipped, they fall, they crash, they crack, and we're doomed. So how can we really save them and our sanity from severe disaster? The briefcase, the bag, and the backpack where we put these portables are usually our first line of defenses.

You don't have to buy designer items to make sure that you have high-quality products for your laptop. Thankfully, my Firewall Laptop Brief which I bought in New York last holiday gives maximum security for my notebook. It has padded and cushioned notebook sleeve so that my gadget is safe from scratches. I like this case because I can adjust it according to the size of the notebook I want to store in it. If you've got plenty of laptops that range from 14-inch to 17-inch screens, this case will work best for you.

Laptops are the most essential must-have for the modern office employee who deals with tons of paperwork and lots of computing tasks everyday. However, buying a new laptop every year because your old one is malfunctioning due to overheat and overuse is not exactly practical. Proper care and maintenance are the key to keep your machines and wallets healthy.

Just like you or your Porsche, your notebook also needs fresh air and some rest so that it can function and operate the way you need them. LiftOff Portable Notebook Cooling Stand is among the best computer accessories available in the market. Aside from that, it's made by Kensington which is a reputable company when it comes to computer materials.

This cooler hoists the laptop to allow cool air to flow and minimize the risk of overheating. The stand is adjustable allowing users to fix and regulate the tilt based on specific eye levels. It holds computers safely and firmly to avoid accidents like slips or falls. Unlike other cooling products, this tool is very light and you can fit it on your laptop bag making it very ideal for business trips and out of town conferences. A stand and a cooler combined in one powerful package is simply the most affordable and effective laptop accessory ever made.

Overheating is the most common cause for the decrease of your computer's shelf life. Cool atmosphere is very important especially if you always bring your portable notebook in your home or at the office. Laptops can become as workaholic as their masters, but they can't take aspirin or paracetamol whenever they have fever. And most of the time, we'll only realize that our notebooks are sick if they crash, or worst, don't operate at all.

Natural air conditioners can be helpful, but they do not give you the security that your laptops will beat the heat during the day. Cooling pad fans are created to answer our burning maladies on computers. Targus Tornado Notebook Chill Pad is the newest tool to address cooling issues of state-of-the-art laptops. It has two established fans for faster heat dispersal and rubber domes to eliminate notebook slippage.

Weighing 15 oz, you can attach it to your ultra mobile devices through the USB ports. Unlike other coolers, this economical tool is equipped with switches so you can turn it off if your laptop is not in use. Targus is a trusted name when it comes to computer hardware, peripherals, and firewall security suites. There will be other choices for cooling systems, but while they're not yet around, try this one first.

You, inhabitants of the Earth, are so lucky because you got all the opportunities to use the powerful and flashy portable notebooks in town. You actually have a huge collection of laptops ranging from different sizes, different colors, different features and different brands. But no matter what the brand or the price of your notebook is, proper care and management are the key to make its digital life longer.

There are many ways to keep your laptops strong and safe from accidents, thieves, and viruses. If you'll visit the nearest laptop dealers, you'll find that aside from the machines, you got a whole collection of bags, anti-virus and anti-spyware software, firewall security systems, and laptop carts. And to make sure that you can extend the shelf life of your gadget, better use Vantec LapCool3 Notebook Cooler. It's a slick device that you attach to your gadget so that it can take the machine's heat away after a long day's work. Unlike other coolers, Vantec releases the heat out of your machine through the back instead of pushing it to the top. This is an excellent tool to avoid crashes, shocks, or even explosions due to overheating. Our portables can be as cold as ice with the tool's quiet and slim fans.

With its new Inspiron E1505, Dell has definitely added another surefire bestseller to its Intel-based portable line of powerful notebooks. But this new notebook has a lot of intelligent and usable features packed in its small size. The matte-silver edition is, so far, the sleekest and the prettiest notebook among the Inspiron collection.

Running in the unique Windows XP Media Center Edition and the fast Intel Core Duo processor, this gadget will surely manage many applications easily. At 14 inches wide by 10.45 inches deep by 1.44 inches tall, the 6.18 lbs. machine is light enough to be ideal for travel here and abroad. The 15.4 inches wide-screen display in an astounding glossy surface is a plus for your PowerPoint presentations. It delivers photo-realistic, clear, vivid, and crisp images.

The keyboard looks weird from afar, but at the same time very solid, and it won't scratch the screen when you shut the PC. The MediaDirect technology allows you to play CDs and DVDs with the vast collection of volume and playback controls. It also has different ports where you can connect your digital cameras, printers, and Xbox game console. On the negative side, the battery only renders less than three hours of service. This beauty is very affordable because it costs $899 to $999 only.