microcomputer company Vobis has produced the first B-brand pocket PC, the Yakumo Alpha, which is also one of the cheapest devices on the market. However, the Yakumo Alpha doesn't offer any wireless technologies like Bluetooth or Wireless LAN. The plastic casing...

• -The PDAs In Brief

The Yakumo Q8M Power64 XD In Images. a new notebook hosts the athlon64. Now that the sound and fury over AMD's 64 bit processor debut in desktops has (slightly) died down, AMD brings the Athlon64 to notebook market. THG got to test the Mobile Athlon64 3000...

• -Test Setup: Yakumo Q8M Power64 XD
• -Battery Tests
• -Conclusion

three candidates, the Blackbox-M11, the Dell Inspiron 8600 and the Yakumo Q8M Power64 XD, doesn't seem to make much sense. After all, the Dell and Yakumo notebooks should enjoy a clear advantage over our Blackbox in the battery rundown tests, as they are built...

because it is equipped with the weakest processor of all of the tested candidates. Battery Run Down Time A direct comparison of the battery run down time of all candidates seems unreasonable at first because the systems from Asus, Dell and Yakumo run with Pentium-M...

in this respect by the Q8M from Yakumo, the other Athlon64 notebook in the test. That said, it should be noted that the CPU in the Yakumo racer works at a fixed clock speed of 800MHz in battery operation. This device also sports a battery with far higher capacity...

a direct comparison of battery life between the five test candidates Dell Inspiron XPS, Dell Inspiron9100, Blackbox-M11, Dell Inspiron 8600 and Yakumo Q8M Power64 XD - in the battery benchmark, the Dell and Yakumo devices have a slight advantage due to the...