DDR RAM, it's safe to assume that the Turion 64's battery life suffers because the entire L2 cache remains permanently active during runtime. At 2 MB, the Pentium M's L2 cache is twice as big at the Turion 64's. But the Pentium M also uses a form of "intelligent...

wallets.. For the money, what you get in the WinBook X610 isn't too bad at all. The 1.6 GHz Pentium M 725 is a typical member of that processor family, but one at the low end of its price and performance scale as you'd expect in a budget oriented notebook....

PVR On A Budget. pvr on a budget. One year after SnapStream PVS version 2 came out, we bring you a review of the recently released version 3. As a quick recap, SnapStream PVS is a software-based PVR (PVS stands for Personal Video Station). It uses a TV tuner...

weeks to figure out how to pronounce the name of this notebook by Toshiba; we prefer to call it "Big Bertha". The Toshiba Qosmio G25 is powerful and good-looking, but also big and heavy. In our full review of the Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513 we call it a "beautiful...

these 3D solutions consume up to 40W of power. It is needless to say that this power budget is unsuitable for notebooks. In a mobile PC real estate and power consumption are more important then 3D performance. Most desktop users know the big 3D players ATI...

Ports, Components and Specs. Asus EeePC 1000. The screen size, battery life, weight and price all go up with the Eee PC 1000. Does that make it a big bargain, or just too big?. The expansion ports on the Eee PC 1000 are what we’ve seen on earlier models:...

but sometimes they just don't get the job done, especially for more sophisticated requirements. And "big iron" products will put too big a dent in most small business budgets. Fortunately there are Open Source alternatives. Jim Hubbard takes a detailed look...

makes a very compelling point with its Visionary XP10, though: notebooks with integrated high-performance 3D chips don't have to kill your budget. In the case of this notebook, a ticket for the mobile high-performance 3D train costs a rather moderate €1200...

spectrum, adequate interfaces can be found made by Edirol (a consumer division of Roland,) M-Audio, Yamaha, Behringer, and Tascam. A mid-sized budget gets you better gear from M-Audio, Aardvark, Rolls, Emu, Lexicon, Audiotrak, and Presonus. For those willing...