Reviews

Solid Basics. The Hewlett-Packard Compaq nx7400 is optimized for office use and has a solid and robust case. Current versions of this notebook can regarding performance by all means rate high, because of their Core 2 Duo processors.

Quadratic. Handy. Good? The Samsung X60 attracts by its angular and slim design. Especially the magnesium case impresses. What about the rest of the properties of this multimedia notebook? We take a close look at this elegant 15.4 notebook.

BIG Business. Sure, you are familiar with the following problem: You start lots of applications, among them possibly a graphical application with lots of toolboxes and the display gets so filled, that a clear view gets completely lost. This problem can be either resolved by an external monitor or by a HP Compaq nw9440 with powerful graphics and high-resolution, non-reflecting 17 inch display.

Satellite a half. The Satellite U200 is a high-quality and beautiful 12.1 inch subnotebook, which is willing to accompany its user everywhere and convinces through robustness (magnesium case) and its very low weight of only 1.9kg . In oder to increase the data security the notebook is equipped with a shock save hard disk and a fingerprint reader.

White Christmas? Yes - for all those who obtain the Sony Vaio VGN-N11M office notebook. Sony's white beginner's notebook among Dualcore notebooks has to prove its technical qualities in the following reviews.

Workaholic. The Alienware S-4 m5550 is a powerful notebook - No, actually the notebook with the highest performance, which passed our reviews so far. How does this work? Core 2 Duo T7600 2.3 GHz, 2GB RAM Dualchannel and a 80GB 7200 revs Hdd. On the contrary, only the Geforce 7600 seems to be a little old.

Economist. The Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V8210 Office Notebook demonstrates that not all business notebooks need to be exorbitant. So, also private user can afford robust workmanship and comprehensive configurations of a business notebook.

Executive Assistant. Hewlett-Packard Compaq nc8430 is a high-performance business notebook, which has besides calculation power also graphical power, because of its ATI X1600 video card. A non-reflecting display, first class input devices and a fingerprint reader complete the offer.

Small but powerful. Small, light, yet powerful, these attributes go best with Asus A8Jp. More and more user choose very mobile notebooks, but still they won't forego computational and graphical power. This is Asus' solution: A8Jp.

Business light. The Satellite Pro A100 series cover Toshibas Business beginner's notebooks. The durable notebook with good equipment and even a X1600 video card of ATI is available at a reasonable price. This makes the notebooks besides for business customers also interesting for private users.

A wolf in sheep's clothing. After Apple changed the processors of its notebooks to Intel CPUs, in more detail to Core Duo processors, their elegant white notebooks are also offered with Core 2 Duo CPUs. The 13“ MacBook became a muscle men wearing a ballet dress.

Watch out 17 inch WUXGA Display, maximum resolution 1920x1200 Pixel, AMD Turion 64 ML-44 CPU 2.4 GHz, 2x NVIDIA Geforce 7900GS SLI with a total of 1GB VRAM, 160GB hard disk 7200 revs - prepared for second hard disk, 2 GB RAM; Still not enough? - You can read more here.

Bargain hunters. Most might not believe it, but Dell also offers very reasonable beginner's notebooks. E.g. the Dell Inspiron 1501. The start price of 649 Euro for a proper configuration is clearly below the 1000 Euro threshold.

Entry-level entertainer. Sleek and elegant looking, but is it any good? We've taken a closer eye to Hewlett-Packard's multimedia notebook, which is breaking records of popularity in our country. Is it the power of advertising that is responsible for its good sales or are its virtues irresistible? We've tried to discover the truth.

Couch potato.If in the office, or in the bed room or away, the personal multimedia center is always present as Toshiba Qosmio F30. It is equipped with an analog/digital TV tuner and excellent Harman/Kardon speakers and provides one with the pleasure of location-independent TV and HiFi.

GAMER'S DARLING. Dell XPS is quasi a synonym for high-performance multimedia notebooks. It is very interesting, that there is also a 12 inch notebook available, that is Dell's XPS M1210 with Core 2 Duo CPU and a Geforce 7400 video card, which is suitable for games.

Mirror, Mirror… Notebooks of the VGN-FE31 are presumably Sony's most sold notebooks. As a representative, you can loot at a review of the FE31B with Core 2 Duo CPU and Geforce 7400 video card here.

CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE. Sony's C1 series are a series of fancy 13.3 inch subnotebooks. The user can select its favorite out of a variety of designs. We reviewed "Pretty in Pink".

The Asus A8JS is equipped with a high-resolution 14'' display. Thanks to a Core 2 Duo processor and a GeForce Go 7700 is provides high-performance in a small space. Our forum user Ompaa conducted the following review.

If you were pleased by the Asus F3Jm, but preferred a 17 inch notebook, the Asus A7Jc could be the right choose for you. As usual for a DTR, Asus A7Jc is equipped with a variety of ports.

Asus F3Jm too belongs to the 15.4'' multimedia class and is therefore a direct competitor of Toshiba A100-979. It is equipped with a Core 2 Duo CPU and a Geforce 7600 with 512 MB video memory.

A while ago, we already had the joy to review the Satellite A100-153 notebook, which was equipped with a Core Duo CPU, which was brand new at that time. The compact and esthetically pleasing successor, Satellite A100-979, is equipped with a Core 2 Duo processor and a Geforce 7600 video card.

XPS is not the only notebook by Dell, which is excellent, when used with hard multimedia applications. Inspiron 9400 is an excellent notebook for gamers too. A Core 2 Duo CPU and a Geforce 7900GS video card ensure best performance.

Toshiba P100-194 is a multimedia giant. Equipped with striking hardware, it appeals gamers and film enthusiasts. In my following review I used a different strategy compared to the pattern used in the other reviews. I consider this "review" as the story of my personal experiences, which I wrote down during the last days rather than an actual test report.

Tablet PCs are an elite in the kingdom of mobile computers. Asus R1F is one of the most smart (and by that we don’t only mean looks) among those. Its advantages and shortcomings are gathered in the following review.

Packard Bell's popularity stretches from UK across the British Channel to the Benelux countries and that's about it. Lately, we've heard many positive opinions about this brand, so it was a must to check a notebook of this kind.

The current review of the Toshiba M400 Tablet PC represents a special event for us. Thereby, this is our 100 review. You will experience like always, what the reviewed notebook really is worth - so also with the Toshiba Portege M400.

The Asus U5F is a further well equipped subnotebook with high performance and Core Duo CPU in our review. Whether this mobile computer fulfils the requirements of a portable notebook fair is the topic of this review.

Without any doubt, the Sony Vaio VGN-AR11S is a piece of jewelry according form and organization. The occurrence impressed. Also the equipment, owing to Geforce Go 7600GT and Sonys Blu Ray drive assembly work convincingly.

The Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C1410 is intended as a notebook for beginners, and is characterised by a modular pit, which can be equipped alternatively with an optical drive assembly, an additional hard disk or an additional battery.

If anyone ever doubted, that there is constant progress with mobile computers going on, after taking a glimpse of Vaio TX2 will see, how much he or she erred. Only a brief encounter with this marvel of engineering was enough for us to acclaim it a veritable laptop of the 21st century. And not only thanks to the revolutionary screen with a white LED backlight.

BenQ Joybook S61 is the first subnotebook with an integrated TV tuner. However, its most appealing feature for us was the armor with ferruling metal borders.

Lenovo 3000 V100 is one hard to define notebook. Due to its wide spectrum of features it's a bit too heavy to consider it a proper subnotebook. It's not exactly what you call an office laptop, either, considering it has a 12.1" screen only. To us this neat toddler with American roots and Chinese spirit seamed one heck of a useful device for a broad range of users.

The Sony Vaio VGN-FE21M Multimedia Notebook is to unite gaming performance owing to Intel core duo and GeForce Go 7600 with an outstanding display. Whether this is true you can read in our detailed review.

Office Notebook This stylisch notebook, equipped with an Intel Core Duo T2050 2x 1.60GHZ processor, 1024MB RAM, a 80GB hard disk and a Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 128MB (max.256MB shared memory) video card is interesting because of its small price of about 900 Euro and the good equipment. Whether it is worth the money you can read here.

The Centrino entrance notebook of Sony wants to survive in the market with a favourable price and a pleasing design despite an aged technology. Whether the work succeeded, you can read in the following review.

Subnotebook Small, smaller, Flybook. Despite or because of the 8.9" display it is very useful. The touch panel provides input friendliness. Here is the small display acrobat in a review.

Advertised as a gaming notebook, the Dell XPS M1710 with its high-resolved 17" screen, the fast Core Duo processor and GeForce Go 7900 GS must show in our test whether the promises are true.

Subnotebook It is small and slim, looks well, is first-class finished, well equipped and lightweight. Probably everyone gladly would like to have this as the second notebook at home. The Samsung Q30. Only disadvantage: the price.

At present much is discussed about display foils and coatings - no miracle, the majority of the notebooks at the market is equipped with a reflecting display. The Vikuiti display protective plastic foil ARMR200 promises to help the stressed eyes...

Multimedia notebook As a representative of the favorable middle class of multimedia notebooks, we reviewed the Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi. Thereby the "A" in the type designation refers to the Core Duo T2250, whose frontside bus only is clocked with 533 MHz instead of usual 667 MHz, but exhibits 1.73 instead of 1.66 Ghz processors.

Desktopreplacement HD capable LCD TV, DVB t tuner, Dolby Home theatre, Harman/Kardon boxes, HD DVD drive assembly and besides a gaming computer. This sounds like high end equipment of a modern living room is now realized in a laptop: in the Toshiba Qosmio G30.

Multimedianotebook Almost already as a classic one could designate the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1437G, because this notebook already is almost a year on the market. Whether Pentium M and ATI X700 today still make sense apart from multi-core processors and high performance video cards you can read in our review.

Office Notebook This time we examined and tested the Dell Inspiron 6400. As a low-priced, durable office notebook it is particularly interesting for business men but also for private users.

Multimedia notebook This time reviewed by us: the Asus A6J. It is a favorable notebook made by Asus with good features and attractive performance data. You can learn here, whether the laptop is useful apart from the good features.

Our forum moderator Jan alias Deichgraf investigated the favorable notebook for beginners - the BenQ Joybook 5200G. The Notebook, which is already available for less than 800 Euro is called by BenQ "wireless pleasure on silent feet". Whether Jan shares this opinion is you can read in the following review.

Multimedia notebook After long time we had the opportunity to test a notebook made by the manufacturer Samsung, the Samsung X60 with T2500 Core Duo processor and ATI X1600 video card. Whether this allround talent is good, you can learn on www.notebookcheck.com.

Multimedianotebook After the P100-102 we now had the opportunity to test the identically constructed Toshiba Satellite P100-191 with a Nvidia Geforce 7900 video card. Thereby articularly performance data of the graphics chip were of large interest.

Office Notebook The 17" desktop replacement of Apple can also be classified as a multimedia notebook, because of its 3.1 kg and only 2.59 cm height. Optically it convinces like its 15" brother. Whether also the technical measured values of this racer equipped with Intel dual core processor convince, you can read in our detailed review.

Office Notebook Apple now implements Intel processors in the successors of the iBooks and therby accomplished the transfer to PC technology. Whether this transfer was successful and how the technology, which is new for Macs, harmonizes with the white Macbook can be learned in our detailed review.

Office Notebook The Bullman Aero 5cen 14 inch is the first notebook from the manufacturer Bullman tested by us. This office laptop is to score particularly by high performance with small weight - at a favourable price. Learn on Notebookcheck.com whether this mobile computer really suits.

Office Notebook There are different reasons to buy a Mercedes. Some of them are identical with arguments for a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad. The concerned drivers and notebook users know what I mean. Tested is the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60, quasi the e-class of the Lenovo product range.

Subnotebook MSI continues the successful history of the small smart sub-notebooks S260 and S270 with the Megabook S262. Like already its predecessors the S262 is equipped with a graceful designed and resistant magnesium case, but beyond that contains a high performance Core duo processor.

Multimedianotebook Probably our testsample, the current Toshiba Satellite P100-102 is one of the laptops with the highest performance. Equipped with a Core Duo processor and a NVIDIA Geforce 7600 the Satellite P100-102 is in the best way to be ready for the future.

Our forum member Schutzi wrote this review about the BenQ S53W for us. The Centrino-laptop is very interesting due to its small size and the small weight. Read more about his opinion of this notebook...

Officenotebook The notebook for beginers Toshiba Satellite L20 is particularly designated for office and interNet applications and rather settled in the lower price segment. The mirror-free display and the write-friendly keyboard make the L20 especially interesting as a desk device. Read on Notebookcheck.com, what you really may expect from the L20.

Our forum moderator Nuffybeerchen wrote this review of the new Acer Aspire 5652 WLMI for us. At present this laptop is very attractive due to its Geforce Go 7600, Core Duo T2300 and the favourable price. Read more here...