TriGem has launched one of the thinnest and lightest notebooks on the market the Averatec N3400 and it looks stylish too! By choosing to clad their new laptop in aluminum and by making it relatively thin and light the Averatec has taken a leaf from Apple’s book and are delivering style along with performance.
We recently looked at the new gaming laptop from Dell, the Alienware M17x, and now Maingear has launched a rival gaming laptop the eX-L 18. The question is, can Maingear beat the aliens?
The Redmond software and marketing machine is in full flight at the moment, and the impact on the web is dramatic. Almost all of the press we see has Windows 7 in a good light, and perhaps quite rightly. I for one have bandied the phrase, “What Vista should have been”, and extolled it’s virtues to all that would listen, I have even pre-ordered a copy. But are we going too far in our wonder and praise for Windows 7? And is it being perpetuated by Microsofts marketing department?
Laptops and gaming haven’t always gone hand-in-hand as laptop designers are often concerned with battery life and weight. However the designers over at Alienware have created a laptop bursting with power that is ready for hardcore game players. The Alienware M17x is a formidable machine with high specs and lots of alien juice.
Microsoft’s Windows 7 includes some enhancements and features for touch screen computing but until now there hasn’t been much news from the netbook manufactures about how they are going to use these new features. For example Asus recently launched the T91 touch screen netbook in their Eee PC range using custom software on top of Windows XP. But now Sony has spilled the beans about their intentions with Windows 7 and netbooks with touch screens.
If you have been following the sound economic advice on the purchase of Windows 7, as provided by Gaj-It.com, then you may have been lucky enough to pick up a copy for the bargain price of £50 for the Home Premium version, and £100 for the Professional version. A snip considering the price of the full retail versions. We won’t go into what it costs to buy Mac OS X. And of course you may have found that the bargain price copies are in short supply.
The Asus Eee PC T91 touchscreen tablet netbook was announced at CES in January of this year with Asus hoping to repeat the netbook revolution it started with the Asus Eee PC 701 but this time with an Eee PC that has a touchscreen which can swivel around to turn it into a tablet. The T91 went in sale in the USA this week and should reach the UK soon. The question is should you buy one or stick with your iPod Touch?
If there’s one thing Apple does well, it’s the company’s ability to generate more than its fair share of rumours. The latest one to go quasi-official is that a new
