laptops

Crave Podcast 5: Giant laptops on trial

Crave We also put super-huge laptops on trial. It's that time again -- the latest Crave podcast is here now, ready to disgrace an iPod, PC or other MP3 player near you. Crave gets down to it with the latest news, a brief guide to space tourism and a look...

10 April 2006, 14:00

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800: Laptops get graphics hotness

Crave Several new developments in the laptops graphics department from ATI and parent company AMD were announced at this year's Computex show in Taiwan. You can already get two Nvidia GPUs in select laptops, a setup known as SLI, so we're pleased AMD's...

Tags: hd, laptop, dedicated, battery

5 June 2008, 9:08

Panasonic unveils CF-W8, CF-T8, CF-F8 laptops for the clumsy

Crave Panasonic dragged a few of Europe's finest geeks to Paris today, to launch its new ToughBook Executive series of laptops -- all aimed at the pathologically clumsy. Three new models were unveiled -- the 14.1-inch CF-F8 and the 12.1-inch CF-W8 and CF...

Tags: ram, weight, hard drive, water

23 October 2008, 13:10

Hands-on: Asus G1 and G2 gaming laptops

Crave Asus isn't the first name that springs to mind when you think of gaming laptops, but it's drawn battle lines with the likes of Alienware with its new G1 and G2 gaming rigs. The metal lid gives it a look of quality and is vaguely reminiscent of some...

Tags: asus, laptops, gaming, inch

1 December 2006, 9:53

New Apple laptops: 13-inch MacBooks are go

Crave Here come some new MacBooks, Apple's new name for its consumer laptops: there's a black one and a white one, and they both feature dual-core Intel processors, 13.3-inch widescreens, and all that Apple goodness, such as iLife '06, Front Row, the...

Tags: apple, hard drive, model, intel

16 May 2006, 13:50

Acer Ferrari 5000 and 1000 laptops unveiled

Crave Following in the treadmarks of the recently released Asus Lamborghini VX1 laptop, Acer has just announced its second generation of Ferrari laptops, the Ferrari 5000 and the Ferrari 1000. Laptops like the Sony Vaio TX3 are smaller (11.1-inch screen...

Tags: acer, processor, windows vista, inch

19 July 2006, 10:49

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

Crave When it's not producing proprietary media formats and expensive games consoles, Sony is crafting tasty laptops. Apparently "central to our entertainment experience", these laptops are geared up to better cater for the media-obsessed world we all...

14 September 2007, 12:11

Acer Aspire 6920 and 8920: Gemstone Blue media laptops

Crave Acer has unveiled two new multimedia- oriented laptops with unconventional screen sizes, the 16-inch Acer Aspire 6920 and the 18.4-inch Acer Aspire 8920. Crave US just got a peek at these two new systems in person at a press event in New York, and...

Tags: acer, laptops, controls, displays

13 March 2008, 15:58

Dell multicolour laptops: XPS M1330, Inspiron 1520 and 1720

Crave Dell launched a new range of Inspiron laptops yesterday at a swanky event in Marbella. The laptops include the 15.4-inch Inspiron 1520 and 1521, the 17-inch Inspiron 1720 and 1721, and the cream of the crop, the XPS M1330.

Tags: dell, laptops, edge, inch

27 June 2007, 11:04

More mini laptops: LG netbook on its way from MSI?

Crave Who isn't getting into mini laptops these days? Windows laptops cut down to size. The latest rumour floating around is that Korean electronics giant LG has asked MSI to build it a tiny laptop based on Intel's netbook reference design containing an...

Tags: lg electronics, lg, note, mini

24 July 2008, 9:31

Video reviews round-up: Megapixel madness and sexy laptops

Crave We've been fogging up your monitor with steamy video reviews, from splash-proof dSLRs to powerful -- not to mention sexy -- laptops. One of the best-looking 15-inch laptops in recent memory is on display in our Dell XPS M1530 video review.

Tags: laptops, air, megapixel, olympus

17 March 2008, 16:06

Sony Vaio TZ series: Stalk-worthy ultra-portable laptops

Crave Nobody makes sexy laptops quite like Sony. The TZ series is a group of 11.1-inch laptops that weigh a paltry 1.19kg -- about the same as a bag of sugar. We've written love poetry for the TX2, camped outside in the bushes for the Vaio TX5, and now...

Tags: sony, laptops, sexy, vaio

30 May 2007, 10:26

Photos: Computex buzzes about mini laptops and their chips

Crave At Computex 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan, the biggest buzz is about the developing new market for mini laptops, sub-notebooks, 'netbooks' -- whatever you want to call them. They're smaller than traditional laptops but larger than PDAs.

4 June 2008, 10:08

Sony Vaio CS series laptops: Beautifully ill-conceived

Crave Sony has announced a gaggle of new 14.1-inch laptops this month, including the shiny, consumer-focused CS series. Like the CR series that came before it, it comes in a variety of colours and configurations for your looking and, er, configuring...

8 October 2008, 12:34

Sony Vaio C1: Colourful laptops

Crave Hats off to Sony's design team -- they've just cooked up what could be the sexiest laptops of the year. Derivative black and silver designs will now take a back seat to the Vaio C1 series, which comes in a range of colours: black, green, silver...

Tags: sony, vaio, ram, processor

29 September 2006, 11:14