Archive for August, 2010

Old notebooks

Fed up with old notebooks?

Do you want a new one? How better to do?
Actually, the options are not so much:

* The old notebooks gifts to wife / husband / son / nephew and buy a new one. Option worst in terms of investment. However, your old notebooks actually remain in your possession, and you are well aware of its characteristics and features, help your family deal with their new technology well.
* Sell the old, buy a new one. Ways to sell an old notebooks, generally speaking, quite a lot: in newspapers and classified ads through the online flea market, through the usual commission store, telephone calls friends. Pros and cons of different everywhere, as well as the likely amount of revenue from the old notebooks. Whatever the method of sale, we must focus on what to get him more than 70% of the price of the same or similar in store unrealistic. In what rasprekrasnom condition was not in your old laptops.
* Trade-in. In some firms have such services is that when buying new equipment credit is given for the old.
* Upgrading (memory, hard drive, processor). In old notebooks, this option is small known, features are discussed below.

The expediency of this or that option is usually determined by the sales price of the old notebooks and the amount of money, which is scheduled to donate.

Asus N53JN and Asus N73JN

The British branch of Taiwan’s Asus today to report the commencement of sales in the misty Albion two new N-Series laptops: 15.6-inch N53JN and 17.3-inch N73JN. Both new products are based on the Calpella platform from Intel, have the technology to switch graphics cards Nvidia Optimus and proprietary sound system SonicMaster.

ASUS N53JN and ASUS N73JN

The cost laptop ASUS N53JN will be between $ 1010 to $ 1554. N53JN received a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and LED backlight, one of the processors Core i3-370M (2.4 GHz) or Core i5-520M (2.4 GHz), 4 GB of RAM, discrete graphics accelerator GeForce GT 325M or 415M with 1 GB of its own memory. Under the user’s data is 320 or 500 GB capacity built-in hard drive. In the basic configuration, there is Blu-ray-drive, 802.11 b / g / n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, web camera, card reader and a port USB 3.0. Powered laptop from 6-cell battery.

A larger ASUS N73JN will cost at least $ 1710. TFT-computer screen has a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels. In the role of the CPU supports Core i5-520M. The system includes a graphics GeForce GT 325M with 1 GB of memory, hard drive to 320 GB and 4 GB of DDR3. Other hardware features are similar N53JN. Both laptops will be equipped with preloaded operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition.

MSI FX610

MSI FX610

MSI FX610

For those who looks for a good laptop for everyday office tasks, you should look for another new product from Taiwanese manufacturer MSI. Today the company announced low-cost representative of the classic series of laptops, the model code-named FX610. Mobile Computer has a diagonal display with 15.6 inches. The system is based platform from AMD. In the role of the processor supports one of the representatives of the family AMD Phenom II.

In MSI FX610 uses modern technologies such as ECO Engine, GPU Boost and Cinema Pro, which will allow more efficient use of battery power when you are offline, but also improve a number of visual features while watching the video. Laptops equipped with low-profile ergonomic keyboard and dressed in black plastic. The system installed RAM DDR3, HDD 500, 640 or 720 GB, discrete graphics accelerator Mobility Radeon HD 5470 with 1 GB of private memory, card reader, 802.11 b / g / n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, HD Web camera and even a pair of high-quality stereo speakers. Includes 6-cell battery.

Fujitsu LifeBook SH530

Fujitsu LifeBook SH530

Fujitsu LifeBook SH530

Fujitsu had a formal presentation of a new laptop LifeBook SH530, which is one of her well-known reasons, it is aimed at travelers and those who are constantly on the move and travel. Maybe she decided that LifeBook SH530 useful to them due to their compact size and waterproof keyboard. However, she forgot that to the laptop was convenient for those who travel a lot, it should weigh very little. What about the LifeBook SH530, his weight was almost 2 kilograms, and that the presence of only 13.3-inch screen (resolution 1366h768 pixels). But on a rather large weight can close your eyes, if you look at the performance characteristics of Fujitsu LifeBook SH530.

Fujitsu LifeBook SH530

The basis of this mobile computer is Intel Calpella platform and CPU Core i5-460M with a frequency of 2.53 GHz and two cores. Minimum RAM - 4 GB, but it can be doubled. Disk system here - it is a normal hard disk with the plates inside. Its maximum capacity - 500 GB. Go ahead. Fujitsu LifeBook SH530 found in one of the most advanced discrete graphics card ATI Mobility Radeon HD technology to support DirectX 11 and 64-bit modification of the operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium. The spilled coffee on the keyboard or any other drink will not give absolutely no trouble, since this keyboard is waterproof. It remains to add that the Fujitsu LifeBook SH530 provides output HDMI, several ports USB 2.0, optical DVD-drive and the module WiFi 802.11 b / g / n. Price and release date of this laptop are kept secret.

Notebook Dell Adamo was cloned in China

Chinese Dell Adamo

The Chinese have begun to clone not only cell phones and clothing brands, but now more and laptops. One of the first mobile PC was copied Dell Adamo. In the Chinese version is called the Shenzhen Xingzheng YU N98 and is several times cheaper - a little less than 200 U.S. dollars. Of course, that the Chinese have only a superficial resemblance to the noble American - inside those notebooks is completely different fillings. Anyway, Shenzhen Xingzheng YU N98 more like netbook, because only they are equipped with the Intel Atom N270 and 11.6-inch display. Chinese craftsmen even offer several complete sets of his new creations - with 512 or 1024 MB of RAM and hard drive capacity of 80 or 160 gigabytes.

It is noteworthy that WiFi and Bluetooth modules are present in all versions Shenzhen Xingzheng YU N98. But most importantly - this clone netbook has the sturdy metal housing and a fairly high capacity battery, the capacity of which amounted to much as 2400 mAh. Yes, and supports high-resolution screen - 1366h768 pixels. Thus, in complete set Shenzhen Xingzheng YU N98 will be able to make a good budget netbooks competition from manufacturers, because they are not produced in a metal case and are in some small way, but more expensive.