AKOYA S5610 – A GENRE UPDATED

The Akoya S5610 is a comparatively slim line appliance, but it administers to pack in both a bulky 15.4-inch widescreen display and a full-sized keyboard absolute with a numerical keypad. The mainly exciting thing about it, conversely, is that it's one of the 1st notebooks we've witnessed to use Intel's new Centrino 2 technology.

Intel asserts Centrino 2 proffers better wireless hold up, longer battery sprint life and quicker performance. On the concert front this notebook without doubt doesn't disappoint. It's power-driven by a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo P7350 processor, which is assisted along by a comparatively munificent 3GB of RAM. This amalgamation managed to boost it to a very reputable score -- particularly considering the low price. The result signifies you should have no difficulties running manifold functions at the similar time and definitely during our test period, the apparatus felt speedy and very receptive. The S5610 also utilizes the new-fangled Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 chipset, which sustains wireless n technology for longer range and more rapid link speeds. Used with our Belkin wireless n router it without doubt had no difficulty hanging on to a wireless association, even in areas around our test site where other notebooks thrash about for reception.

HP COMPAQ 6720S REVIEW – A GENRE OF NEW ENTRÉE

The HP Compaq 6720s proffers a first-class base for every day work at the bureau or at home for slight money. Due to contemporary dual-core technology completed by Intel, it is moreover able to complete all-embracing tasks rapidly.

Design
The HP 6720s presents its own self with an astoundingly contemporary intend, particularly bearing in mind the habitually conventional style of Compaq business notebooks. Whereas it's full-size and little brothers show Spartan and clunky intend, the 6720s proffers well-designed shapes and a slender case. Particularly the serration in the container around the keyboard almost resembles VAIO laptops from Far East - but barely on a small scale. Diverse other such details, like the charge position LED straight on the power association on the left side of the container, help to modernize the look of the laptop line.

Performance
Concealed under the top of the HP Compaq 6720s is a processor completed by Intel. The Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 of our test taster can entrée two cores with 2GHz clock rate each and proffers thus plethora of presentation at any time. From web surfing to challenging video encoding tasks - the HP paces up well even with more luxurious laptops regarding brute processor influence. Current 3D games on the other hand, are a clear no-no for this office notebook. The incorporated graphics chip turns contemporary games into slide shows - if it runs them at all. In contrast with the processor, the option of the hard disk is deprived. Even though the Hitachi provisions up to 160 GB of data, it does this slower and noisier than its competitors.

The HP Compaq 6720s bowed out to be a silent companion in our test. During straightforward writing tasks in office programs it is nearly completely silent.

While the test sample merely and moderately heats up during every day usage, it doesn’t seem as good in our temperature test. A solitary small mono speaker is accountable for the resonance output of the HP Compaq 6720s. Even though 2 stereo speakers would be far better, the noise is not too bad for a access level laptop. The battery life of the HP Compaq 6720s is satisfactory in our test. Although the laptop only manages 70 minutes under full load with the Battery Eaters classic test, the 47 watt battery lasts for more than 5 hours in the straightforward idle mode test.
Overall
The HP laptop made in our tests only a small number of blunders. Workmanship and substance quality is pleasing considering the price, but it would have been enhanced if the IT Company had saved a bit less on the gear. The fact that the laptop contains only a diminutive mono speaker in spite of the huge speaker section irritates as much as the very tiresome interface arrangement.

Pros
+ Excellent keyboard
+ Snappy processor
+ Slim and light container
+ Steady display hinges

Cons:
- Casing bends under pressure
- Interface alignment needs to be redesigned
- Mono speaker is completely outdated intention
- Only 1 year guarantee


Value For Money

Our Rating

ASUS EEE PC 1000 REVIEW – A MARQUEE OF A GENRE

The hang around is lastly over for the EEE PC 1000, a notebook that promises to assassinate all that enters into the net book showground. It's the most well-resourced and leading in the EEE series and has shed aside the usability shackles of its minuscule predecessors.

Design
The EEE PC 1000 has much in familiar with the EEE PC 901. It's got the identical shiny, metallic hinges and a curvy-edged lid. At present, it's only accessible in one color -- lustrous black -- but we'd be astonished if Asus doesn't discharge a white version and other consequent hues in the in the vicinity of future. The EEE PC 1000 is the chief mini notebook we've come across. Its 225 by 170 by 20mm framework is a few millimeters wider and deeper than an MSI Wind, but we don't comprise too much of a concern with this; it's still extremely portable.

Performance
There are few surprises within the machine -- chiefly if you've been following our reporting of the EEE PC 1000 for the preceding few months. It utilizes a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, plus 1GB of DDR reminiscence much like the EEE PC 900, Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind.

Asus is launching 2 variants of the 1000, as it did with the 901, 900 and 701. The £369 EEE PC 1000-BK002 ships along with Linux and 40GB of solid-state storage and the £349 EEE PC 1000H-BK007X utilizes an 80GB HDD drive and Windows XP. Remarkably, this is the 1st time in EEE history that the Windows XP variant has had more storage space than the Linux replica and the 1st time there has been a price divergence between the 2 versions.

There's extremely diminutive difference between the EEE PC 1000 and the respite of its Atom-planted rivals in terms of presentation. The 1000 clocked up 1,512 in PCMark 2005, which is an exceptionally reputable score for an engine of this type.

Battery life was appealingly impressive in the EEE PC 1000. We weren't predicting it to be as extended as the EEE PC 901's, due to its bigger display, but it fared astoundingly well. It lasted 3 hours 56 minutes while inspecting a DivX movie, which is good quality in comparison to the 901's 4.5 hours.

Conclusion
The EEE PC 1000 is a tremendous machine. It unsteadily straddles the line flanked by mini notebook and ultra portable, but it's fighting fit and planted best to face it, well calculated and enormous for those who require a functional notebook on the move. It's more posh than the correspondingly outfitted MSI Wind, but it does possess its advantages like the multi-touch mouse track pad and a selection of specification. As an effect, we advocate it highly.

Pros
+ It’s an EEE variant
+ Battery life too good
+ Display quality is class apart

Cons
- A bit on the heavier region

Value For Money

Our Rating

LOEWE CONNECT 37 A NEW GENRE OF SCREENS ON OFFER

The whole thing on the Connect 37 has been designed to excellence. While its distinctive approach may not right away provoke you, we'd hope with three color dissimilarities of chrome silver, black or white, plus 4 unlike stands, ours was provided with the floor stand 'trapeze' that you'd be capable to find one to ensemble you. One of the most important features of the Connect 37 is its aptitude to stream media over a home association. We did try this originally over our workplace Wi-Fi group and couldn't get it to pick and choose up our Windows Media Player, but business networks are never the most excellent place to try this. When we tried it on the agitated Ethernet network, we were very plagued, the TV found our Windows Media Player in a direct line. Once we accepted the TV permission to entrée our files, we were off.

Adaptation aside, the Loewe actually came into its hold with WMV video. It played flawlessly and at resolutions of up to 1080p, which actually won us over. It was in addition extremely straightforward to observe pictures and acquire MP3s to play, and the complete interface familiarity was a breeze. In normal definition, our picture controlled abundance of detail with precise colors and few deformations. Our only sniggle is that the TV requires thinking about what characteristic ratio it'll use. For the 1st few seconds of selecting a channel, the screen jumps about. On a finest set, this is an strange dilemma.