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Toshiba Portege R835: a cheaper alternative to MacBook Air

Laptop HQ — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:49:02 +0000

If you’re looking for a lightweight ultra portable laptop you don’t necessarily need to go for Apple Macbook Air. Its alternative by Toshiba, Portégé R835, which weighs just above 3 pounds and has a 13.3 inch LED display screen may not have that classy design, but it is cheaper than Macbook by around $700.

Here’s what R835 has

Intel Core i5-2410M Processor (2.3 GHz with 3MB Cache)
4GB DDR3 RAM
640GB hard disk drive with TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor)
13.3″ TruBrite TFT display at 1366 x 768 resolution with LED Backlite
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Toshiba Portege R835 also has has its advantages over Macbook: an integrated DVD drive and a longer battery life (9 hours compared to the 7 hours of the Apple laptop).

The New Laptop by Lenovo: ThinkPad R60

Laptop HQ — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:58:17 +0000

The Lenovo laptop computer company has launched a new laptop in their ThinkPad series, the Lenovo R60 (9457A78). This model is an update to the existing ThinkPad R52 model that is powered by a faster new Intel Core Duo T2500 processor running at 2.00 GHz. The laptop has wi-fi connectivity, ATI X1400 128MB Graphics, 1 Gb DDR2 memory, DVD/CD-RW Combo and 100GB SATA Hard Disk Drive @ 7200 RPM and a 15-inch TFT SXGA+ Screen (1400×1050).

In the ThinkPad R60 Lenovo also offers some additional feature like UltraNav, Finger Print Reader and Bluetooth. The warranty coverage for this model is three years, making it a very good buy.

Gateway MT6451 laptop

Laptop HQ — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:09:37 +0000

The Gateway MT6451 is a new addition to Gateway’s entry level series laptop line.

It seems obvious that you can’t expect miracles from an entry-level laptop. Although it has a dual-core AMD Turion processor, in other aspects it can not be described as a productive machine.

This laptop comes with Windows Vista installed which was actually not a very good move since it can not run smoothly on this hardware. You either have to upgrade your laptop right out of the box (adding more RAM and replacing the slow 4500 RPM hard drive is highly recommended) or downgrade your OS to Windows XP. The fact that a video card eats up to 256mb out of your system memory certainly does not provide for better performance.

Here are the specs of the Gateway MT6451 laptop:

AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology 1.6GHz CPU
1GB DDR2 667MHz Dual Channel RAM with no extra slots available
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150M graphics card with up to 256 MB of shared system memory
120 Gb PATA 4500RPM hard disk drive
15.4-inch Ultrabright WXGA display with a resolution of 1280×800
8X Multi-format double layer DVD/RW
10/100 Mbit Ethernet
Wireless LAN 802.11g
6-in-1 card reader
4 USB 2.0 ports, S-Video port, VGA port
Windows Vista Home Premium