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Our aim is to provide serious and competent information about laptops and notebooks. Notebookcheck provides tests, reviews, news, technical information (like our CPU and GPU comparisons) and links to reviews by other sites.

Laptop reviews

11/05/2009     Review HP ProBook 4710s Notebook
Review HP ProBook 4710s NotebookReasonable 17.3-incher for Professionals HP primarily designed the ProBook 4710s to attract price-conscious businessmen of medium sized companies. Compared to its predecessors it was quite a bit redesigned. This especially applies to the absolutely new keyboard and the port arrangement. Read on to find out more about the pros and cons of our test sample, which we got straight from HP. ... read
 
11/04/2009  85%Review Samsung R522-Aura Notebook
Review Samsung R522-Aura NotebookGaming Beginner. Samsung provides a, in view of configuration, attuned notebook in a popular 15.6" size and pursues the strategy of several product generations with its R522. But what does the latest model exactly have to offer? Quality, equipment, performance and maybe even gaming capabilities? Our comprehensive test will clarify what this all-rounder with an Intel T6400 CPU and ATI 4650 graphic is good for. ... read
 
11/03/2009  81%Review Toshiba Satellite U500-115 Notebook
Review Toshiba Satellite U500-115 NotebookCULV? No thanks! Currently, an undaunted trend towards smaller notebooks can be observed. While the devices lose gram by gram, the performance, down to netbooks, constantly decreases as well - even though Nvidia steer in the opposite direction with their Ion platform. The U500 by Toshiba takes a further step here. Despite the compact 13.3" format, the laptop offers a powerful Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, and an independent middle-class graphics card by ATI. ... read
 
11/01/2009  85%Review mySN XMG7.c Notebook
Review mySN XMG7.c NotebookThe power of Core i7. The mySN XMG7.c, based on Clevo's W870CU barebone, doesn't only represent a notebook of the upper class in view of price. Thanks to the brand new Intel Core i7-720M and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M, the 17.3 inch notebook also provides for baffled faces under its hood. We've scrutinized the mySN XMG7.c and clarified the question: What does the high-end notebook have to offer apart from its alleged brute performance. ... read
 
11/01/2009  87%Review HP Elitebook 2530p Notebook
Review HP Elitebook 2530p NotebookMini Elitebook. HP's Elitebook range is made up of notebooks for business professionals, with a focus on withstanding the rigours of mobile business life. These so-called 'business rugged' laptops offer a particularly robust chassis, a spill-resistant keyboard, a durable battery and a hard drive which is shock-resistant to a degree. Learn more about the smallest notebook in this range, the ultra-mobile 2530p, in the following review. ... read
 
10/30/2009  78%Review Acer Extensa 5230E Notebook
10/30/2009  85%Review Asus UL30A-QX050V Notebook
10/29/2009  87%Review Dell Inspiron 13z Notebook
10/27/2009     Review Asus B50A Notebook
10/25/2009  82%Review ECS Elitegroup I30IL - Chiligreen Platinum SE

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Comparison of Graphic Cards
In the following briefly we will list all graphic cards for Notebooks, which are available at the market. Additionally we represent approximate values of different bench marks (3D Mark at the moment) in italic style beneath the display adapters.
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Mobile Graphics Cards - Benchmark List
Sortable and filterable benchmark and specs list of all currently built video graphic adapters in notebooks / laptops.
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Computer Games on Laptop Graphic Cards
List of all laptop graphic cards and what games can be played fluently with them.
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Gaming Performance of recent laptop graphic cards
Have you ever wonder how your notebook going to perform on GTA IV? Or do you think your notebook will be able to run Crysis on Medium settings? We have tested popular GPU's with recent popular games.
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How much graphic memory makes sense?
This article explains, how much graphic memory is useful for which video cards and which applications are accelerated thus.
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Upgrade / Replace a Notebook Video Card
Generally, it is not so easy to upgrade / replace notebook video cards than desktop video cards. If it is possible and how to actually replace a video card is described in the following article.
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Case Study: Replacing the Video Card of a Dell Inspiron E1705 (9400)
Andi, a Dell Inspiron E1705 (9400) user, demonstrated how to replace the GPU of his Dell notebook and provided us with a description of the whole process.
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