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Santa Rosa: Crave goes hands on with the new Centrino

Crave Crave's test results The 2.2GHz Intel T7500 Core 2 Duo chip in our Santa Rosa laptop, paired with 1GB of DDR2 667MHz memory, helped our Santa Rosa sample achieve a PCMark 2005 score of 4,312. It's been in development for several years now under the...

2 May 2007, 17:06

Acer 9800: 20-inch HD DVD laptop

Crave The Aspire 9800 uses uses Centrino Duo architecture including a Core Duo processor, up to 2GB of DDR2 memory and the Intel 945PM chipset. It's official: the PC world has gone utterly big-screen crazy.

Tags: acer, hd, laptop, inch

6 April 2006, 14:53

Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook S6420: Mullet makes a comeback

Crave Instead of the Core 2 Duo T7300 CPU, 2GB of RAM and 80GB hard drive in the S6410, you get a Centrino 2-certified 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo T9400 CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 160GB drive. This time last year, Fujitsu Siemens released the LifeBook S6410, a 1.75kg...

Tags: ram, keyboard, cpu, core

9 October 2008, 10:37

Asus Nova Lite: Bringing sexy back to Media Centers

Crave Inside, the entry-level sample is packing a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive, so it's not going to win any awards for speed or storage. Update: A previous version of this article stated the Nova Lite had 802.11n Wi-Fi...

26 June 2008, 11:53

Sony Vaio TT: Ultraportable laptop in 'not a car' shocker

Crave The entry-level models all have 11-inch 1,366x768-pixel backlit LED screens, 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U9300 CPUs, 2GB of DDR3 800MHz RAM, 160GB hard drives, GMA 4500MHD graphics, Wireless N Wi-Fi and built-in DVD rewriter drives.

Tags: core, model, ram, high end

13 October 2008, 10:23

Sony Vaio SZ2VP: Jekyll and Hyde laptop

Crave Ours arrived this morning with just 2.16GHz on the clock, its Intel Core Duo T2600 engine purring quietly beneath its lightweight (1.7kg) carbon-fibre chassis. One is the decidedly wimpy Intel 945GM adaptor supplied with the laptop's Centrino Duo...

Tags: sony, laptop, duo, vaio

30 June 2006, 11:00

Dell Studio: Bedsit desktop PCs

Crave The entry-level Studio Slim packs an Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and an HDMI port for under £400. The entry-level Studio has a similar spec but costs a mere £340, due to its Core 2 Duo E2200 2.2GHz CPU and...

Tags: core, dell, cpu, hard drive

23 September 2008, 10:30

Photos: Unpacking the Sony Ericsson P990i

Crave For that princely sum you will get a Qwerty keypad, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, push email, a 2-megapixel camera with autofocus and an expandable Memory Stick Pro Duo slot that can support up to 8GB. Bag containing lanyard, mini screwdriver and...

23 August 2006, 12:02

Deals of the day: Cheap laptops

Crave It's got a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor plus 2GB of memory and a 250GB hard drive, yet LambaTek is offering it for just a tad over £400. It's got a beefy 1.5GHz Core 2 Duo processor, a roomy 120GB hard drive and a decent 2GB helping of RAM, yet...

Tags: ram, processor, hard drive, laptop

28 December 2007, 8:00

Hands-on with Sony Vaio CR20, TZ20 and AR50 laptops

Crave Coupled with a Core 2 Duo chip, this is an attractive ultraportable series, but with prices averaging at around £1,800, its portability comes at a similar price to having a Z-list celebrity whacked. These laptops have Intel Centrino Duo chips, up...

14 September 2007, 12:11

Goldilocks and the three Walkman phones

Crave It's quite small, but it has a 2-megapixel camera with autofocus and comes with a 512MB Memory Stick PRO Duo, which gives me space for 120-240 songs. And speaking of music, it has 470MB of internal memory, plus I can add up to 2GB more using Memory...

Tags: sony ericsson, speakers, megapixel, songs

19 October 2005, 8:54

Eco-friendly PCs: An inconvenient upgrade path

Crave Compare this to the 65W TDP in the 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo E6400 desktop CPU and you can see the potential benefit immediately. The Intel Core 2 Duo L7400 processor has a TDP of just 17W. Look outside your window.

Tags: hard drive, film, cpu, processor

3 July 2007, 9:50

Sony Cyber-shot T2: Monster memory

Crave The T2 utilises Sony's own MediaStick Duo, MS PRO Duo, MS PRO Duo (High Speed), and PRO-HG Duo media should 4GB not be enough for you. Just when we'd vented our spleens on the pointlessness of lilliputian internal memory in cameras, along comes the...

24 October 2007, 10:43

Hands on: Toshiba Qosmio G30 HD DVD laptop

Crave Bizarrely though, it's using an ordinary 2GHz T2500 Core Duo CPU -- not the more advanced Core 2 Duo. Holy blue lasers Batman, here's an actual HD DVD device in the flesh! The Toshiba Qosmio G30 laptop landed in our offices last Friday just as we...

Tags: toshiba, hd, core, hd dvd

11 December 2006, 11:07

Evesham Mini PC: Core 2 media dwarf

Crave The cheapest Core 2 Duo-equipped Mini PC Plus will set you back £799, but Evesham also has standard Core Duo models starting at £699. Crave loves the Mac Mini -- who wouldn't? It's small, sexy and powerful, but if we have one reservation, it's the...

Tags: evesham, core, mini, duo

20 November 2006, 11:07