- Author: admin
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Jan 31,2011
It’s been a long time since we used a laptop that had a monochromatic display — it was a giant white block of a thing that is not missed — but flip around just about every laptop we use today and you find a backside that stubbornly refuses to change color no matter the light that hits it. Is that a problem?
Not really, we think it’s quite fine since we’re not often staring at that bit, but for Toshiba such tedium simply won’t do, so it’s introducing the Dynabook Qosmio T750 with a color-shifting lid.
Turn it in the light and it shifts and shimmers, just like the chameleon paint tuners have been using on custom rides for decades.
Here, though, we’re told it’s done with multiple layers of film, no paint at all. Oh, the inside? A 2.66GHz Intel Core i5-480M, 4GB of DDR 3 memory, and a 15.6-inch, 1366 x 768 display that’s LED backlit — which is also capable of displaying multiple colors, in case you’re interested.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Mar 30,2010
With specs and prices easily reaching into the stratosphere, we weren’t quite sure where Dell’s new 15-inch Precision M4500 workstation would land — the 17-inch M6500 has a starting price of $1,799, but that’s only after $310 of “instant savings.”
Well, it looks like we’re getting off (relatively) easy with the M4500, with a Core i5-520M 2.5GHz model running for $1,549 and still managing to pack in those NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M Graphics.
Of course, we imagine you’ll quickly be running up that bill — 2GB of slow RAM, a 1366 x 768 LCD, and no WiFi just aren’t going to cut it — but with tempting options like a secondary 64GB SSD minicard drive and the ever-frivilous Precision ON, it’s not like we were sticking near that base price anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Feb 9,2010
Back in the beginning of December, when Dell outed its business-oriented, 17-inch Precision M6500 laptop, it boasted some pretty meaty specs: Core i7 CPU, up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, a choice of ATI FirePro M7740 or NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M graphics chips, plus support for up to three storage devices, and a 1920×1200 LED-backlit display.
Well, it’s added some new configuration options today, including USB 3.0 and a Core i5 processor, making this one bad boy all around.
There’s no word on the pricing yet, but the previously available Core i7 configuration runs around $2,700. We’ll let you know when we find out what these new options will cost you.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Desktops
- Date: Feb 9,2010
Kids, are you a corporate buyer of CAD and DCC (digital content creation, duh!) systems looking to save a few pennies in a difficult economic environment? Well, you’re in luck: we’ve dug up yet another demure, innocuous Lenovo with an oversized novelty handle for you, the ThinkStation E20.
Shipping with your choice of an Intel Core i3, i5, Pentium, or Xeon 3400 Series processor and either Intel Core HD or NVIDIA Quadro graphics, this guy supports DDR3 memory and carries certifications from Autodesk, Siemens, Dassault Systemes, among others.
If that weren’t enough, the company is really pushing the green thing, with more than half of the plastic here coming from post-consumer recycled materials. Available sometime mid-month at prices starting at $599, so start save those pennies! You didn’t really want that Tesla GPU anyways, did you? PR after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
