Zenbook UX31 Asus New Creation

This slim, clever and quick laptop is great news for those who need Windows

13.3 inch screen | 2.3 mm front edge | 4 GB RAM | 4+ hours battery time

Only 2.8 mm thin at the front edge and about 17 mm at the thickest point, the Zenbook is as slim and stylish as it gets. The spun metal and hairline aluminium body give it an industrial yet appealing look. And it can get cracking from sleep mode in just 2 seconds. If that is not impressive for a Windows machine, its standby time of two weeks certainly is.

This good-looking, fast machine is smart too. It automatically saves all data and open files when its battery reaches 5 per cent charge. You don’t have to bother with shutting down before rushing off for a meeting.

While you can choose between an i5 or i7 Core processor, there is no option to the 13.3 inch (33.8 cm) screen. (In case you want an 11.1 inch display, you can go for Asus’ UX21 model.) The LED backlit display supports 1,600 x 900 p resolution. Integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 give you basic graphic processing, but you can’t push it to the edge.

For storage you can choose between a 128 GB or 256 GB hard disc, and there is 4 GB of Ram. It comes preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium. And while it looks thin, the machine is slightly heavy at 1.3 kg.

For connectivity, it has: USB 3.0, USB 2.0, Micro HDMI port, and a mini-VGA port. There is no Ethernet, just a Wi-Fi. What is really nice is that this machine is Bluetooth 4.0 ready.

The other smashing features are in its speakers. Asus teamed up with B&O, and incorporated in them its Sonic Master technology. The sound is enhanced because of digital sound processing and the speakers’ oversized resonance chambers.

The Zenbook delivers a good 4+ hours of battery time on power save mode. In this mode, however, the machine tends to be a bit slow—especially while browsing the internet or working on large Excelsheets. It works fine in performance mode, but you will need to keep its power adapter nearby.

This machine works very well for people who want a thin and light machine that does what it promises, runs Windows, and boasts of a good battery backup.

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How to Extend Life of Laptop

People seem to be on the go more than ever before. And they’d never dream of leaving their electronic life behind.
Ah, the lure of laptop computers. A fully-featured computer that weighs a few pounds and can be carried in your briefcase on a business trip or under your arm as you migrate from the home office to your family room. What’s more, along with ever-expanding wireless Internet availability, laptops allow you to surf at the beach without getting in the water or send email from your porch on a nice day.

This might be why the first quarter of last year saw the best sales record for mobile PCs in eight years, according to a blog at CNET.com. This coincided with the onset of intense iPad hype. However, as one analyst pointed out, limitations of that product category in the face of aggressive price cuts of regular notebooks seemed to give the larger notebook computers staying power in the market. They do more than their smaller counterparts, but consumers still seem generally willing to sacrifice the performance of a desktop for portability, making the traditional laptop the proverbial happy medium for most people.

When it comes to laptops, good things might come in small packages. But portability comes at a price.


A Small Space
For all their benefits, laptop computers can certainly fall short when it comes to memory, speed and hard drive space. And special considerations should be given to wireless network security and battery life. Fortunately, there are some great tips and tricks, special services and accessories that can help make laptop users’ lives a lot easier.
Whenever you open a file or an application, data is stored via Random Access Memory. Laptops use a smaller, slower version of RAM than their desktop counterparts. Once that memory is used up, the computer reverts to the hard drive, causing it to operate much more slowly.  What this essentially means is that the more RAM you have, the more applications and files can be open simultaneously without affecting performance. Therefore, it can be helpful for laptop users to use as few applications at a time as possible.
How much hard drive space you need depends on how you use your computer. If you find your music, photo and video collections are causing your hard drive to burst at the seams and thus reducing operating speed, additional options for data storage might help. External hard drives and online storage services can go a long way in freeing up space and providing backup protection for your data in the event of a computer crash.

Wireless Worries
While you may have the ability to work on spreadsheets on the sun porch, the portable life isn’t entirely peaceful. Laptop users would do well to pay special attention to issues that affect wireless network security.

Unlike computers that connect via router or Ethernet cable, wireless networks talk to devices using radio waves. According to an article at LaptopLogic.com, these open radio waves leave you susceptible to myriad snooping attacks that could make way for a hacker to access your network and all of your valuable information. This means family pictures, passwords, electronic bank statements, the information contained in your emails and your personal files are all compromised.

LaptopLogic.com suggests some preventive measures to help achieve security while using a wireless connection with a laptop. For example, when you create a wireless password make sure that you use a combination of numbers, letters (upper and lower case), and symbols. You also need to make sure that password is long -- the longer the password is, the more time required to crack it. It is also recommended that you use guest wireless networks rather than readily giving out your passwords to friends visiting your home. A guest network is a common feature found in newer routers, that is essentially a second network which is completely isolated from the network your personal devices use.

HP Pavilion

Manufacturers: Hewlett-Packard

Class: Pavilion

Model: dm3t

Specs Overview:

• Operating System: Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-380UM 1.33Ghz
• RAM: 3 GB DDR3
• Hard Drive: 320 GB @ 7200 RPM
• Graphics Card: Intel Integrated HD card
• Battery: 6 cell Lithium-Ion, 7.5 hours max
• Display: 13.3” LED Display
• DVD-ROM: None
• Webcam: HP TrueVision Webcam with MIC
• Wireless: Wireless Network Card 802.11b/g/n
• Bluetooth: None

Thin n Light:

The system offers a very compact design in terms of thickness. Compared to most laptops, this one comes in a sleek design. A width of just 1” is very impressive.

This feature along with a screen size of 13.3” contributes to the decrease in weight of the system. It weights nearly 3.98” lbs, which is pretty impressive particularly for an HP system since they are usually known to be bulky.

Audio Software Flaws:

The audio software of the this HP laptop is very irritating. Any program that requires full screen operation has to be minimized to change volume levels.

Although the volume controls are integrated on the top of the keyboard, but touching them minimizes the (full-screened) program and then the change takes place.

This is especially very irritating when a heavy program or a game is running and it gets minimized each time the volume controls are touched.

For some this is a problem, for others, this isn’t even a flaw.

Screen Movement:

The screen of the laptop can not be tilted beyond a certain angle. After movement of about 30 degrees or so, the screen can not tilt backwards any further. This is annoying some times if you have to sit on a level higher than the placing position of the system.

Although the LED screen would still let you see the screen properly but it will loose the brightness and definition to some extent.

Not the gamers’ choice:

Unfortunately HP does not offer any choice to upgrade the graphics card of this HP Pavilion laptop. No other card can be used in with the laptop except the one already mentioned in the specs.

This certainly comes as a disappointment because most companies would let the users customize the laptop if they agree to pay more but in this case even that option is not available.

So if you are a fan of gaming, this is certainly not your system.

Good battery Timing:

The battery time of this system is particularly impressive. With light browsing and using the machine in power saver mode, it is possible to get a battery time of about 5.5 hours.

With more usage the time will get reduced to about 2 hours. The time that the company claims can usually be achieved when you switch on the laptop and do nothing, and this is generally not the case.

Nice Design:

Compared to some of its other competitors, HP is still doing a good job as far as the design of a system is concerned. The laptop body is made of metal, not plastic and its interior gives a rich metallic look. The metal used this time is of better quality as it does not get finger prints over it self and is also more gripping than the ones used in previous pavilions.

For more detailed info go to www.hp.com 

Dell Insipiron N5010

This model is known by two names i.e. Dell Inspiron N5010 or Dell 15R. It is a home machine and forerunner of 1560’s sequence dell laptops. It is weighted at 2.47 kg with almost (380 W x 259 D x 20 H) (front) / 32.8 (rear) mm dimensions.

Dell Inspiron N5010 comes with 15.6 inches for 720p HD WLED display resolution of 1366×768 and black bezel color matches with silver palm rest.

WLED stands for “White Light Emitting Diode”, it uses a lesser amount of energy and is environmentally friendly that produces smoother and brighter lighting of the display with enhanced clarity.

Dell Inspiron N5010 offers true life display (anti-reflective) technology that enhances the gloss, sharpness, wide viewing angles and vibrant colors for watching content on the screen.

Dell Inspiron N5010 is ready with full size keyboard with integrated numeric pad. It enhances the pointing device experience by providing smooth touch pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad.

The right side of the Dell Inspiron N5010 has a built-in DVD burner and eSATA port, a 10/100 Ethernet port and an SD card slot; while the left side has a USB port, microphone and headphone ports and an HDMI port; the rear has two more USB 2.0 ports, a VGA port and the power connection.

Chipset / Motherboard:

Dell Inspiron N5010 is equipped with Intel H57 chipset, which is part of Intel 5 series chipsets replacing the old two chip approach. Intel rapid storage technology, INTEL RST 9.5 brings additional storage performance and data protection with low power consumption features.

Support for eSATA combined with Intel RST provides much better performance than USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394, so it may be ideal for data storage and transferring purposes like multimedia professionals needs high speed data transfer and copying devices for the content.

Processor:

Dell Inspiron N5010  comes with Intel® Core™ i3 2.13 GHz 330M, with 2 cores and its hyper threading technology enables dual core CPU to grip 4 threads at one time. It should be able to handle good amount of applications at optimum level but there could be possibility of advanced CPU for demanding games.

It is loaded with instruction set of 64 bit technology, Enhanced Speed step, Intel Virtualization Technology, Idle States, Thermal Monitoring technology, Intel fast memory access, Intel flex memory access with integrated GMA HD 500MHz, integrated DDR3 1066 memory controller.

Cache and Memory, (RAM/Hard Drive):

Dell Inspiron N5010 features 3MB smart cache for better giving out and set up with 250GB hard drive supporting (High rpm); hard drives are capable of working under vibration with power saving options. 2GB DDR3 (DDR 800, 1066, 1333 and 1600) RAM twice the data rate of DDR2 for in-depth memory processing such as gaming, digital video editing, producing DVDs and running software applications.

You can also extend RAM till 4GB DDR3 to utilize maximum optimum performance on the laptop for most favorable computing with availability of two RAM Slot banks.

Integrated Graphics:

Intel H57 provides elevated visual performance for crisp images, vibrant colors with high definition audio and video experience. It offers full support for Windows 7 with influential performance and instinctive design. Intel clear video HD technology provides higher processing capacity to facilitate a wealthier amusement experience.

Intel HD graphics provides multiple options for connecting with different displays like HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) and supports HD high resolutions like 720p. With its TV setup utility, it provides step by step guide for configuration with TV. Dell Inspiron N5010’s graphics memory may range from 384mb till 1024 mb dedicated and shared depending on the model series.

Networking Details:

It is offered with W-LAN 802.11b, W-LAN 802.11g like Intel WIFI link 6200 /6250 or Wireless WLAN Half mini card optionally, depends on the model series. It is also ready with Bluetooth 2.0 and Ethernet controller. Dell Inspiron N5010’s networking features fulfill basic networking requirements to keep connected on internet or intranet.

Multimedia Details (Optical Drive, Speakers, Webcam and Sound Card):

Dell Inspiron N5010 features High Definition soundcard, which produce optimum digital sound. machine has speakers that produces great sound for movies and music. Its optical drive is capable of playing audio / video DVD discs with burning capabilities ranging from DVD RW/R (8X) and CD-RW with DL support.

External Ports:

• 5 in 1 Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital Cards, Multimedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD picture cards.
• Usb 2.0
• 1 HDMI Connector.
• 1 eSATA+USB.
• 1 VGA port.
• RJ 45 Ethernet connector.
• 1 Headphone out and Microphone in jack.

What’s in the Box?

• Manuals
• Laptop Charger
• Screen LCD covering cloth
• Applications & Drivers CDs

Sony VAIO NW Series

Sony VAIO NW is a sure bet for those who are desirous of Entertainment that too in a notebook. The uniquely made device offers Blu-ray playback – keeping in view its track record, Sony this time has again excelled in presenting unique blend of style and performance, i.e rock solid performance and eye catching style.

Sony VAIO NW has a sharp 15 inch display and one will need to use the HDMI port and an external monitor or TV to get the full 1080p experience. If you are fond of more graphic comph, better opt for a different configuration of the system but the bottom line is that overall VAIO NW is a fulfilling multimedia laptop which gives you a sense of satisfaction.

Sony Vaio NW series laptop is newly design laptop. It has distinctive features like standalone Web surfing console (VM), which offer browsing without booting in to windows. It is actually loaded with splash top simple operating system which is based on Linux. It will hardly take 30 seconds to access internet by hitting “Web” button on the front panel of laptop provided wireless or Ethernet is properly configured and ready to use.

Hardware Features:

Design:

It is wood design machine with the dimensions of 14.6 x 9.8 x 1.2-inch and the surfaced soft addition appearance. It comes in different colors in market. Silver, white and brown are the most sought after colors people prefer and the machine s available in all three colors. On the top pane, only three buttons are available for initiation of Splash top instant-on browser, speakers muting, and display off button for example, to feel you convenient about conserving the battery consumption and switching of the screen while giving presentation.

Processor and Memory:

The device comes with Intel’s Core 2 Duo at 2.2GHz 2mb cache with Intel’s GM45 Express mobile chipset and 4GB DDR 2 of 800MHz memory and upgradeable to 8GB of RAM. It is ready with 320GB hard drive that rotates its dishes at the speed of 5,400 RPM.

Integrated Graphics & Display Panel:

The chipset comprises GMA X4500 HD graphics processor, is a DirectX 10 capable onboard graphics adapter in the GM45, which is quite effective for watching high definition movies and basic games. Its GMA chip is integrated with HD video decoding functions and capable of decoding formats like AVC, VC-2, and MPEG-2.

The Sony Vaio NW features 15.5 inches Sony’s XBRITE Eco screen technology, the technology is unmatched as far as vivid colors, high-pitched contrast and crisp graphics in the LCD display is concerned. Eco display is proficient of using one backlight to allocate light consistently and which is fairly idyllic for watching HD movies on the laptop. It supports the native resolution of 1366×768 in 16:9 aspect ratios and with the support of HDMI resolution of 1920×1080.

Peripherals Ports:

Optionally, eSATA port to connect an SATA drive externally and Fire wire400 port on the left side of the laptop is also available for high powerful data processing process like digital video camera movie steady capturing and encoding / decoding.

There are three2.0 USB ports, feast out on both sides of the laptop , one on the left side and other two are on the right side of the laptop with input/output jacks of audio and microphone and 2x Blu-ray disc. VGA output and an HDMI port for high-definition video output are available on the left side of the laptop for enhancing visual experience with WI-FI switch for instant switching of WI-FI.

Sony NW features dual media cards slots in the front like one for usual standard SD media cards and other is for Sony Duo memory media cards port, which is quite fair enough for covering versatility in media card’s needs.

Connectivity Details and Keyboard, Mouse pad:

Sony Vaio NW features Intel’s Wi-Fi Link 5100 AGN chipset 802.11a/ b / g and n wireless networks on the range of 2.4- or 5.0GHz frequency bands. It is also ready with gigabit Ethernet controller Marvel Yukon 88E8057 very competent network performance, but Blue-tooth is not provided in this laptop.

The atollelegance keyboard is really handy in using and hitting keys. Its specific gap among the keys brings easiness and conformity in typing without fewer mistakes. A touchpad adjacent below the keyboard is fully competent in use like it offers balance amount easiness in scrolling and dragging.

Multimedia Details (Optical Drive, Speakers, Webcam and Sound Card):

The VAIO NW is offered with an integrated Blu-ray reader drive. Blu-ray drive may be unable to burn Blu-ray discs; but it can burn CDs and DVDs. The notebook is capable of playing high definition content in720p playback. Speakers are well geared for generating crisp audio with integrated audio. It is ready with 0.3 MP Motion Eye cameras with even frame rates offering very low distortion.

What’s in the Box (Depends on seller offer)?

• Manuals
• Laptop Charger
• Screen LCD covering cloth
• CD’s/ DVD for optional software’s like Microsoft works, 90 Day Subscription of Norton internet security.
• It covers one-year international manufacturer warranty.

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