Going Mobile à la AMD: Low-Voltage Athlon XP-M vs. Pentium-M (Banias)

Published on May 7, 2003 to Notebooks and Laptops

Just in time for CeBIT, AMD launched several low-voltage mobile CPU Athlon XP-M models. This is the manufacturer's way of ensuring future market share in the sector for thin and light notebooks. Can the Athlon XP-M's LV version match up to Intel's Pentium-M/ Banias? This test provides some answers. Read more

Mobile Musicians: Three MP3-Players

Published on October 4, 2000 to Home Theater

Diamond's Rio 500 is well known. Oneboss is offering their Booster Discman and Creative Labs is launching their Jukebox soon. We compared the three solutions. Read more

Your Mobile Phone Is A Wimp Compared To These

Published on June 30, 2006 to Smartphones

The Japanese are moving a number of functions to their mobile phones. One of the latest innovations is replacing cash and credit cards. Maybe some day this technology will find its way into our mobile phones. Read more

Mobile Data Storage: Comparison of Three External Storage Systems Between 120 GB and 160 GB

Published on August 27, 2002 to Notebooks and Laptops

External hard drives attract with large capacities and ease of use. Thanks to USB 2.0 and FireWire, the manufacturers promise respectable performance as well. Do external hard drives hold their own in the practice as well? Read more

Mobile Storage: Your Entire CD Collection In Your Pants Pocket

Published on May 5, 2005 to Home Theater

Are you looking for a gadget that will carry the contents of 40 audio CDs on a key ring? Or perhaps you're hankering after a light-weight external mass storage solution to carry even bigger data quantities? Then you shouldn't miss this test of the Arcdisk 4 GB HD USB Key and the Iomega Mini Hard Drive 40 GB. Read more

Mobile Graphics: DX9 on the Go

Published on March 24, 2003 to Notebooks and Laptops

In recent weeks, ATI and NVIDIA have been flooding the world with announcements of new 3D chips in the desktop segment. At CeBIT, in a change of tactics, we saw both companies come up notebook versions of their desktop behemoths with ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 and NVIDIA's GeForce FX G05600/5200. Desktop DirectX 9 acceleration is coming to laptops, and we take a restricted early look at this sea change in mobile graphics. Read more

Slideshow: Nvidia's New Mobile GeForce Go 7950 GTX

Published on October 13, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

Nvidia's GeForce Go 7950 GTX is the company's latest and greatest mobile graphics processor. See a slideshow detailing some of the Go 7950 GTX's capabilities. Read more

Making Ultrasmall Desktops with Mobile PC Components

Published on September 21, 2006 to Desktop Computers

Using near state-of-the-art mobile PC components, several manufacturers have built desktop PCs as small as 6.5" x 6.5" x 2". These highly mobile PCs are ideally suited to home theater PC (HTPC) applications. We look at their strengths and weaknesses when used for this purpose. Read more

Business Notebook with Centrino Mobile Technology: Asus M2N

Published on July 11, 2003 to Notebooks and Laptops

A new business notebook from Asus, the M2N with Centrino technology, uses a passive cooling method without any annoying fan noise. Our field test clears up once and for all whether passive processor cooling is enough for the Pentium M. Read more

Simplifying Mobile Search

Published on July 23, 2007 to Smartphones

Yahoo, Google or Windows Live Search, which is best for your smartphone? Read more

Windows Mobile 6 Announced

Published on February 8, 2007 to Smartphones

What are the bets it won't be compatible with the iPhone? Read more

Is This the Windows Mobile iPhone?

Published on August 15, 2007 to Smartphones

Can adding touch features to Windows Mobile mean there's competition for the iPhone? Read more

Why Does Everyone Hate Ultra-Mobile PCs?

Published on June 28, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

Ultra-Mobile PCs have been soundly trashed by the tech press and tech analysts. Do UMPCs deserve all this negativity? Read more

Is 64-bit Mobile Computing More Promise Than Reality?

Published on February 9, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

MSI's MS-1029 barebones notebook computer is an exciting entrée into the world of mobile 64-bit computing. But is this technology ready for prime time and is this the time for you to buy in? We give you the information and, using some new benchmarks, the test results to help you make a thumbs-up or thumbs-down decision. Read more

Mobile Athlon XP with Geforce4 Go420 and VIA KT266A

Published on April 10, 2003 to Notebooks and Laptops

Our review has already shown that the IGP320MÆs memory performance makes it a less than ideal chipset choice for the Mobile Athlon XP. Will the KT266A do any better? Read more