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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.


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Laptop reviews

11/19/2009  85%Review Asus G60J Gaming-Notebook
Review Asus G60J Gaming-NotebookR.O.G. featuring Core i7. "Republic of Gamers" is the brand name under which Asus has released a wide range of gaming laptops to meet the needs of enthusiastic gamers. As games become more realistic, they require higher performance from PCs and notebooks, thus requiring companies like Asus to constantly improve their gaming models so as to keep up with the latest games. So it comes as no surprise that the new Intel Core i7 CPUs are now being used for a few chosen Asus gaming laptops. In our review: the Asus G60J equipped with the i7-720QM CPU and the GTX 260M graphics card from Nvidia. ... read
 
11/15/2009  87%Review Deviltech Devil 9700 DTX (W860CU) Notebook
Review Deviltech Devil 9700 DTX (W860CU) NotebookThe Gaming Devil? Deviltech probably has the fastest 15.6 inch gaming notebook in the world in its range with the Devil 9700 DTX. Intel's Core i7-820QM and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 280M don't only promise an exceptionally good gaming performance but also put a high demand on the cooling at the same time. If the notebook, based on Clevo's W860CU barebone, can deal with this expectation is clarified in our comprehensive review ... read
 
11/15/2009     Column: Me and my Windows 7
Column: Me and my Windows 7Part 2: The installation Our author and his (simply too old) laptop are still on the way to exploring Windows 7. The realisation of part two: it's a piece of cake! ... read
 
11/13/2009  86%Review Apple MacBook 10-2009 Notebook
Review Apple MacBook 10-2009 NotebookPlastics Unibody After the latest revision of the cheapest Apple notebooks, a stable Unibody case is now also used in Cupertino. The small White could convince in our test with excellent input devices and exemplary emissions. ... read
 
11/12/2009  80%Review Toshiba Satellite P300-212 Notebook
Review Toshiba Satellite P300-212 NotebookFlood of Models. Toshiba expands its range of 17" Satellite P300 Series notebooks again and again. Amoung others one will find the P300-212 Model, equiped with the high-performance Core 2 Duo CPU and the no less impressive ATI HD 4650 graphic board. With currently around 20 different configuration variations, just about anyone looking for a 17" notebook will find themselves a suitable model. ... read
 
11/12/2009  83%Review Asus G72GX Gaming Notebook
11/12/2009     Column: Me and my Windows 7
11/11/2009  86%Review Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook
11/10/2009  88%Review Alienware M15x Gaming-Notebook
11/09/2009  75%Review HP Pavilion dv6-1211sg Notebook

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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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