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Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch: Affordable, Touch-Enabled
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 The awkward days of Window 8 laptops without touchscreens aren't behind us just yet, but the end is in sight. It's easy enough to resist touching the Start screen on a desktop PC, but when a laptop display is inches from your fingers, if you're anything like us, your instinct is to reach out and touch it. Thankfully, affordable touch-enabled laptops have begun to hit store shelves, like Lenovo's new IdeaPad Z400 Touch.
Lenovo's IdeaPad Z400 Touch is one of the laptops ushering in the era of touch screens for mid-range systems, so we're taking it for a spin (and a swipe) for you here...
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Sony VAIO T14 Ultrabook Review - Out With Express Cache In With DataPlex For SandForce Driven Speed
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Sony`s new VIAO touchscreen T14 arrived last week, complete with hybrid hard drive and Windows 8. Frequent readers of TSSDR understand my opinion of both, an opinion that was initially hard to contain with their teaming up in what appears to be an attractive ultra design. Swapping out the hard drive for an SSD was a given. Stepping outside the box, we believed the analysis and replacement of ExpressCache with NVELO Dataplex might be worth the effort and worthy of report. Could it be done? To date, we haven`t seen Samsung`s NVELO Dataplex in any ultra book or laptop design, yet it is unquestionably the highest performing caching software that we know of. Is there another that could actually see a hybrid ultra book design reach exceed data speeds above 500MB/s by twinning the performance of a caching SSD onto that of a hard drive?"
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Samsung XE500T1C Tablet @ DreamWare Computers
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With the XE500T1C you don?t need to have a laptop for your desk and a tablet for on the go. The XE500T1C is a tablet with a nice big 11.6? HD LED display for on the go, and when you need to get some serious work done at the comfort of a desk then you can dock it into a comfortable (and locking) keyboard and trackpad dock. Ready to travel? The dock locks safely onto the tablet and can be collapsed just like a laptop!"
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HP Envy X2 11-G010NR Review @ TechReviewSource.com
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The HP Envy x2 has a beautiful thin, brushed-silver design that really makes it stand-out from the crowd. But in terms of performance, it could be better as the Intel Atom Z2760 and 2GB of RAM only provide adequate power."
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Gigabyte S1082 Windows 8 Slate Tablet
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Overall I feel the Gigabyte S1082 Windows 8 Slate is a very solid device. For the usage testing I replaced my aging laptop with the S1082. It performed as well if not better than an older Core2 quad laptop in my daily tasks most of which include Internet browsing, email, and office applications such as Word and Excel.
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Cyberpower Fangbook X7-200 Gaming Notebook Review @ Legit Reviews
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The fine folks at Cyberpower PC have sent us over one of their latest creations, and truth be told, I`m looking forward to this one! What we have today is the Cyberpower Fangbook X7-200 gaming notebook. The entire Fangbook series features a massive 17.3 screen (1920x1080 HD LED-Backlit), Intel Core i7-3630QM quad-core processors (to start), and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX and GTX 680M graphics. To say that these things are beasts doesn`t do them justice. The Fangbook has the different versions to it, each with slightly different specifications and price points. The Fangbook X7-200 that we have in our hands today starts out at $1549..."
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How Tablet PCs Could Save Civilization @ Benchmark Reviews
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I`ve read many articles published by various editors on the death of the Desktop PC at the hand of Tablets, and I don`t put much stock in them. I, personally, will never give up having a Desktop. The raw power capabilities needed for ripping, converting, editing, compiling, and securing various data will always ensure it a place in my home, until the Desktop becomes a Wrist Computer with a direct neural interface. Or, at least, that`s my hope of what it will become. However, there is a potential death for the Desktop PC in the future, and it`s has nothing to do with advancing technologies..."
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CyberPowerPC Fangbook X7-200 Gaming Notebook Review
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While many full-size gaming rigs are built to elicit oohs and ahs with their stunning looks and high performance, gaming notebooks can sometimes be a little bland. CyberPowerPC has had its share of solid yet non-distinct looking gaming notebooks, but the Fangbook series is a different animal. Built with plenty of alluring hardware and a slick chassis, the Fangbook is also clearly designed to make people stop and ogle.
The Fangbook comes in three iterations--the X7-100, X7-200, and the X7-300--and of course, all three models are completely customizable in terms of specifications and features...
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Intel still maintains Cedar Trail M netbook platform
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While Asustek Computer and Acer will no longer launch netbooks in 2013, Intel will still maintain its Cedar Trail M platform primarily for use in its Classmate PCs, according to sources with Taiwan-based notebook supply chain makers.
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Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx Windows 8 Pro Tablet Review
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Microsoft's Surface Pro has been out just over a month now, but with its $899 base price, it's at the high-end of what a lot of consumers are willing to fork over for a Windows 8-equipped tablet, and that's not even factoring in the $120+ keyboard option. Thankfully, the market is getting a few more entrants in the field, and Lenovo's IdeaTab Lynx is one of the more interesting ones. It's priced well below the Surface Pro, is compatible with an optional keyboard dock, and runs a full, unabashed version of Windows 8.
If you've been holding out for the perfect Win8 tablet, you may be interested in finding out how this tab stacks up in our usual gauntlet of tests.
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Dell Latitude E6430s vs Latitude E6430u
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The Dell Latitude E6430s and 6430u are great examples of the evolution of laptops. The E6430s is the classic notebook that we've seen for a long time, with docking port, standard DVD burner and a 2.5-inch hard disk. The 6430u is a more current design. Sleek, no DVD burner, and no room for a 2.5-inch hard disk and instead an mSATA SSD. That also makes it a fast machine.
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Samsung Series 9 13.3-inch Ultrabook review
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We reviewed the 13.3-inch Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook. It’s sleek, it’s fast, and it looks good. More importantly, Samsung used one of its own SSDs this time, which results in very good performance.
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Lenovo ThinkPad W530 review: workstation
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The Lenovo ThinkPad W530 is a professional business notebook for demanding applications such as graphic or video design and other professional software. You can put it in a docking station and you get (rare) connectors such as Firewire and a Expresscard 34 card slot. It has a solid build quality, and it features the trademark quality keyboard we're used to from Lenovo.
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Dell Latitude 10 Windows 8 Pro Tablet Review
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Are business oriented tablets such as the Dell Latitude 10 better suited for the workplace than popular mainstream tablets such as the iPad? Dell believes their solutions are. Last month, Dell issued a press release in which it claimed its Latitude 10 Enhanced Security tablet is "up to 17 times faster and 94 percent less expensive to deploy than iPads in large scale enterprise implementations." Those are bold claims with very specific figures to back them up.
Regardless of how you feel about Apple, Dell, or another manufacturer's products, one thing is certain: the use of tablets for business purposes is gaining significant traction.
In this review, we are taking a hands-on look at the Latitude 10 Productivity edition which is a high-end model of the tablet. With the Productivity edition, you'll get key features such as HDMI and a removable battery. (A swappable battery, HDMI port, and micro-USB charging port are not available with the Essential edition of this tablet.) Dell was also kind enough to send us the optional docking station, Wacom Active Stylus, Dell KM713 Compact Wireless Keyboard and Mouse, Soft-touch case, and a spare 60Wh battery.
That's a whole bunch of accessibility and features packed up and ready to go...
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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2: Windows 8 Slate Review
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Lenovo's first ThinkPad tablet was a bit of a disappointment to be candid. Even the best Android Honeycomb tablets were severely lacking on a number of fronts, back in the day. What was the use of a business tablet that couldn't run business apps? Well, forget all that. The ThinkPad Tablet 2 is a real business tablet, and one that actually feels like a ThinkPad--albeit one that has some trouble keeping itself together. It runs Windows 8 Pro. Not Windows RT, not Android, not Windows XP, but real Windows 8 (or Windows 8 Pro). It has a gorgeous 10.1-inch 1366x768 LED IPS multi-touch screen, an optional active digitizer stylus, optional mobile broadband, and ThinkPad good looks...
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