No laptop is perfect, but according to Engadget’s Joanna Stern, the HP Envy 14 (from 999 USD direct) is quite close: it’s a high-quality powerful 14-inch laptop with almost no weaknesses and a quite reasonable price. Don’t miss the HP Envy 14 review at Engadget!
Update: the guys at Laptop Magazine were also very pleased with this laptop and gave it a high score (80%), but it’s not the same love story.
PC Magazine publishes one of the first reviews of a laptop with AMD’s latest mobile platform, the HP Pavilion dv6-3013cl sporting an AMD Phenom II N930 quad-core processor and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 integrated graphics. CPU-based benchmark scores are OK, close to the ones of an Intel Core i5 processor, but sometimes closer to those of a Core i3 and usually far from the slowest quad-core processor from Intel, the Core i7 720QM. Battery life is OK, too (3:42 h). So nothing is wrong about this laptop (as long as you do not plan to play any games on it).
In fact, the main problem is price: if you go to shopping.hp.com to customise a HP Pavilion dv6t with a Core i5 430M, that is a bit faster than the quad-core Phenom II N930, you finish with a price 45 USD cheaper than a similarly configured HP Pavilion dv6z with a triple-core Phenom II N830.
It seems high-end AMD processors for laptops are too expensive for the performance they offer. Fix the prices and they are a perfectly good option.
If you are looking for a powerful gaming laptop, the Asus G73JH with the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a very good option, and reviews are already available:
If you are interested, here you have some options to buy the Asus G73JH:
Customizable
Fixed configurations
So the 11.6-inch gaming notebook Alienware M11x is finally here! This is a very powerful beast for so tiny a size (4.5 pounds)!
It’s already available for preorder from 799 USD in the US and from 749 GBP in the UK (for other countries have a look at the official announcement) with the basic configuration of an Intel Pentium Dual Core SU4100, 2 GB RAM and 160 GB HD @5400 rpm (320 GB @7200 rpm in the UK). Going for an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300, 4 GB RAM and 320 GB HD @7200 rpm is going to cost you 1024 USD (868 GBP in the UK). And of course, the Nvidia GeForce GT 335M 1 GB GDDR3 in all configurations.
The small gaming laptop has already been reviewed at Hardware Heaven and IGN Gear, and both are very impressed by the machine, that ran all the games thrown at it flawlessly at high settings, and battery life was almost 6 h of general use!
In my opinion it’s a great, great product. But I’m concerned about the ability of these CULV processors of running CPU-intensive games and scenarios, such as GTA4, Battlefield Bad Company 2, 25-man WOW raids and so, that maybe you would considering to do in thes ultraportable.
For more information, the forum members of Notebook Review have compiled a good amount of info about this small laptop in the Alienware M11x official thread.
Today officially launches the next generation of Intel Atom processors (codenamed Pineview), with new chipset, graphics and so on, and there are many reviews of the Asus Eee PC 1005PE, that uses these processors. Here you have some of them:
The guys at Notebookcheck seem to be first publishing a review of the Dell Inspiron 13z, and it is a good one: well done, and with a high score.
The Inspiron 13z has great potential, because its pros allow a wide field of application. It qualifies for mobile use especially with its long battery life, its low weight, and its good case quality.
Unfortunately the main user interface, the display, is a disadvantage here.
Read: Dell Inspiron 13z review
The guys at MovilZona.es have just published an interesting review of the Nokia Booklet 3G (in Spanish). If you have not heard about this netbook, it’s a 10″ model with GPS and integrated 3G broadband (WWAN, HSDPA), 1280×720 monitor and a promised battery life of 12 h (in the review they only get 6.5 h).
Read: Nokia Booklet 3G review
It’s sexy, expensive and very, very light. But is it worth 1499 USD? The guys at Laptop Magazine have reviewed the Sony Vaio X and they have mixed feelings about it. If you are considering one of these ultra-light laptops, have a look at the review.
These guys are ultra-fast! If you are interested on the Alienware M15x with Core i7 processors, here you have the first review, courtesy of DriverHeaven:
So, finally, a decent review of the Alienware M17x! The reviewed specimen is configured with a T9600 and a single GTX 260M, so don’t expect huge performance numbers, but it’s a good review. The M17x scores very high in screen quality and gets 148 minutes of battery life! Read: Notebookjournal.de, English translation
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