Toshiba Satellite L586

Toshiba Satellite L586 features a 16.0-inch LED screen with a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels. On the top of Satellite L586 screen, there is a camera that will convenient for users to use video applications in daily life.

The screen frame of Toshiba Satellite L586 is using black frosted material, and it feels more comfortable and isn’t easy to collect fingerprints. The colors of operating area and screen frame are different, which will give us an obvious visual difference.

“TOSHIBA” Logo and Imprint Printing design

Camera of Toshiba Satellite L586

Toshiba Satellite L586 with 6-cell battery weighs 2.813kg, and adding the power adapter, Satellite L586 weighs 3.349kg. As a 16.0-inch screen laptop, there is no doubt that it is not light enough for you to carry around.

Toshiba Satellite L586 is equipped with a full size keyboard, as well as a well-spaced metal keycaps. You will feel good when typing on it. Because Toshiba Satellite L586 comes with a 16.0-inch screen, so the keyboard is large enough to come with numeric keypad, easing for users to use.

Toshiba touch pad is still in a same style; all the touch panels are using frosted material which can offer a good texture. The sizes of the left and right buttons are also large, but the key caps is comparatively narrow, so the click texture is not so comfortable.

Keyboard design of Toshiba Satellite L586

Twill design of Toshiba Satellite L586’s palmrest

Both the left and right palmrest are very smooth, and bright silver design will not reflect fingerprints obviously. There is a lean design with the front part of the palmrest, it will enhance the user’s comfort.

On the left side of Toshiba Satellite L586, there is VGA port, RJ-45, HDMI, eSATA / USB 2.0 combo port, audio input / output ports.

On the right side of Satellite L586, there is Kesington, external power supply, two USB 2.0 ports, and DVD burner.

There is a volume knob on Toshiba Satellite L586, which is a praised design. On the right side of the volume knob, there is a SD and Memory Stick card reader.

The volume knob and the card reader of Toshiba Satellite L586

Indicators of Toshiba Satellite L586

Each indicator light is arranged in the front of the Toshiba Satellite L586’s body, from the left to the right: external power status, boot status, battery charging status, hard drive reading status as well as the card reader status indicator lights. With all these indicator lights, users can easily know the running state of the laptop.

Toshiba Satellite L586 is equipped with Intel Pentium T4400 dual-core processor and GM45 chipset, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 discrete graphics card, GB DDRII-800 memory, 250GB 5400RPM SATA-II hard drive, DVD burner, as well as 802.11b / g wireless card. In addition, Toshiba Satellite L586 also comes with re-installed with Windows 7 Professional Edition 64-bit operating system.

We test it with CINEBENCH, the single-core processor score is 2247 points, while dual core processor score is 4320 points.

PCMark Vantage test for Toshiba Satellite L586

the PCMark Vantage test score of Toshiba Satellite L586 is 3664, although the score and TV, Movies do not measure, the performance of Toshiba Satellite L586 is still very good.

Entry mode of 3DMark Vantage test for Satellite L586

We test the Satellite L586 with the resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels, and the final score of Satellite L586 is 4992 points, and the GPU is with 5440 score. The performance of it is just at the middle level.

Toshiba Satellite L586 is equipped with a 10.8V 3620mAh 6-cell lithium ion battery with capacity of 44Wh. In the Windows 7 system, we test it in the “energy saving mode” with BatteryMark, the battery life of Toshiba Satellite L586 can be up to 2 hours and 55 minutes.

You will be attracted by Sony VAIO Z119 with its superior performance and its thin and light design.

Sony VAIO Z series notebooks are substitutes of Sony VAIO SZ series notebooks, and they surprised us a lot. Now when we see the new Sony VAIO Z11 series laptops, we will be shocked by them as Sony VAIO Z11 series laptops are a kind of laptops we dream for. The reason is that Sony VAIO Z11 series laptops are equipped with the latest technology, as well as ultra-thin body design and decent texture.

Sony VAIO Z119 comes with strong hardware, the design and the material of the Sony VAIO Z119 is unique. There is no doubt many people will be attracted by Sony VAIO Z119’s superior performance and its thin and light design. Today we have a review on this unique Sony VAIO Z119.

Today we will have a look on the Sony VAIO Z119GC laptop, which is on the top of the Sony VAIO Z11 series. Sony VAIO Z119GC comes with carbon fiber composite materials; what’s more, there is a special plastic layer added in the carbon fiber composite materials. So it enhances the strength and ductility.

Sony VAIO Z119GC comes with a 13.1-inch 16:9 LED backlit screen with the resolution of HD 1920 × 1080 pixels.

The screen is designed with narrow frame, which is well-coordinated with the 16:9 ratios. Users will have a comfortable viewing experience with the Sony VAIO Z119GC. There is a built-in MotionEye camera on the top of the screen, which is convenient for business user requirements.

Sony VAIO Z119GC (without battery) just weighs 1.079kg, while Sony VAIO Z119GC with battery weighs 1.387kg, and adding the battery and power adapter, the weight of Sony VAIO Z119GC is 1.759kg. Sony VAIO Z119GC is at the thickness of 26mm with the Blu-ray drive. The LED screen is just thin at 6mm. It is easy for business users who travel frequently to carry it out.

Sony VAIO Z119GC comes with a Suspended-type keyboard. Users are all unanimously affirmed the keyboard with its proper key gaps and good texture. Sony VAIO Z119GC also comes with a brightness sensor and backlit keyboard. The brightness sensor will adjust the brightness automatically according to ambient light.

When the ambient light is dim, the keyboard backlight of Sony VAIO Z119GC will automatically turn on to ensure that users can easily identify the buttons. For business users, backlit keyboard will play a more important role in their life.

The design of Sony VAIO Z119GC’s touchpad is very simple, both left and right buttons are in good button gap, it feels comfortable with its smooth performance. In addition, the fingerprint reader is located in the middle of the two buttons, helping users to manage data easily and quickly.

Taking the upgrade into consideration, there is a docking interface and memory slot cover at the bottom of Sony VAIO Z119GC.

light sensors and indicator

Floating palmrest design and labeling

Button side of Sony VAIO Z119GC and docking connector as well as memory slot

The new Sony VAIO Z11 Series notebooks are using an integrated cylindrical axis design as well as the rounded edge design, which will give us a thin visual sense. At this time, there are 5 different texture covers of Sony VAIO Z11 series notebooks for you to choose, and they are available in two color options: black and silver, highlighting the business style.

The power button with green light of Sony VAIO Z119GC is placed on the right side of integrated cylindrical axis. In addition, there is a status indicator in the front of the operating area, it is easy for users to know the boot or sleep state of their laptops.

There is a card reader on front-end of the left palmrest, and there are microphone / headphone jacks on t front-end of right palmrest.

Front-end card reader

Front-end microphone / headphone jacks

On the top of the Sony VAIO Z119GC’s keyboard, there is a Num LK, Caps Lock, Page Down lock indicator. Up these three keys, there is an Assist key, split screen key, as well as a VAIO shortcut key.

Although Sony VAIO Z119GC is very thin, the interfaces are still consummate.

On the let side of Sony VAIO Z119GC, there is an External power jack, Kesington, RJ-45 jack, HDMI jack, USB 2.0 port, ExpressCard 34 and USB 2.0 port.

On the right side of Sony VAIO Z119GC, there is a power switch, VGA, DVD burner and USB 2.0 port.

The heat vents are in the left side of Sony VAIO Z119GC, avoiding to prevent users’ daily use. In order to pursuing the thin body, Sony VAIO Z119GC comes with a 7mm DVD burner. And the DVD burner eject button is also located on the upper right of keyboard.

Dynamic graphics switched systems: “AUTO” automatic mode

With the “AUTO” automatic mode, Sony VAIO Z119GC can automatically adjust the most suitable image display setting, and whether connect the external power, HDMI or not.

Dynamic graphics switched systems: “SPEED” high-speed mode

With “SPEED” high-speed mode, Sony VAIO Z119GC will close the discrete graphics and only use Core Duo processors to ensure long battery life.

The new Sony VAIO Z119GC is equipped with Intel’s dual Core i7-620M processor with 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR3-1066 memory, 512GB SSD drive (4 × 128GB), as well as GMA HD integrated graphics and nVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 1GB dedicated graphics card. In addition, Sony VAIO Z119GC features pre-installed with Windows 7 Professional Edition 64-bit operating system.

CPUID Detail of Sony VAIO Z119GC

First of all, we test Sony VAIO Z119GC with PCMark Vantage 64 bit. When the PCMark Vantage 64 is at the resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels, the final score of Sony VAIO Z119GC is 10537. The hard drive of Sony VAIO Z119GC got the highest score of 14916, the TV and Movies were in the lowest score of 4319, while the nVIDIA GeForce GT 330M of Sony VAIO Z119GC had 7275 scores.

PCMark Vantage 64 bit test

Now we have a look on the CINEBENCH R10 64 bit test. The score of single-core processor is 4308, and the score of dual-core processor is 9295.

We test Sony VAIO Z119GC at the resolution of 1024×768 pixels with 3DMark Vantage, the total score is E9774, and GPU score is 10299 points, CPU score is 8478 points. With this high score, we will be definitely satisfied with this laptop.

Note: 3DMark Vantage test total is divided into four grades: entry-level (Entry, E), the performance level (Performance, P), high-level (High, H), the limit level (Extreme, X).

Then we test the Sony VAIO Z119GC at the resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, the 3DMark Vantage score is P2242 points; and the GPU score is 1800, CPU score is 8559.

We also test the Sony VAIO Z119GC at the resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels with 3DMark06. We get the total score of 6203 points. While Sony VAIO Z119GC features a standard resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, so the 3DMark06 score is 4473 points.

3DMark06 Test Results 6203 (1366 * 768)

We have mentioned that there is a split-screen key; it can arrange the windows orderly. It is more convenient for business users to read many reports or many PPT documents at the same time, and there is no need for users to switch windows frequently.

Before pressing the Split-screen button

After pressing the Split-screen button

VAIO button of Sony VAIO Z119GC allows users to immediately start the Media Gallery software, where users can easily use the photos, music and videos. Located at the top of the screen, there is a Sony’s VAIO inherent design – VAIO Gate, through this system which is similar to Apple’s dock, users can quickly find and launch the required application.

Toshiba Protege T130 series have three color options for you: the teana black Toshiba Protege T131, crystal snow white Toshiba Protege T132 and the wild rose red Toshiba Protege T133. The main difference of these three notebooks is the color; other things of them such as configuration or size are exactly same.

Although Toshiba Protege T133 is the first Toshiba Protege T series notebook, but the design of the Toshiba Protege T133 is similar to the Toshiba Protege series notebooks. They are streamlining and rounded fuselage design. It transfers the elegant design.

Toshiba Protege T133 is 22.2mm-34.2mm thin; and the LED screen makes Toshiba Protege T133 looks thinner. Toshiba Protege T133 comes with a 13.3 inch LED screen with the resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, which is more suitable for playing high-definition video.

Protege T133 weighs 1.685Kg, and adding the power adapter, the weight of Protege T133 is just 2.07kg; it is easier for you to carry it out.

Toshiba Portege T133’s silver “TOSHIBA” Brand Logo in the central makes it look more exquisite and elegant.

Rose red is the favorite color of many female users; it is a best choice for most lady users.

Toshiba Portege T133 system status indicator is placed below the palmrest, so it is easy to be seen even users put their hands on the palmrest. In addition, the status indicators will shin out orange or yellow light according to the different state, they are efficient but not dazzling.

Toshiba Portege T133 power start button, this circular power button is widely used on these series notebooks.

Toshiba Portege T133’s bottom side design will increase the friction to prevent fall.

left side of Toshiba Portege T133

On the left side of Toshiba Portege T133, there is Kensington lock slot, VGA, heat vent, HDMI high-definition jack, and USB2.0 ports. The gap between the ports is wide, so they will not be interfered.

right side of Toshiba Portege T133

On the right side of Toshiba Portege T133, there is power adapter jack, Ethernet card jack, 2 × USB2.0 ports, headphone / microphone jack, and multi-card reader (SD / SDHC / xD / MMC / Memory Stick / Memory Stick Pro). They are arranged in a compact order. We didn’t find the built-in DVD burner, so if needed; you may have to connect it with USB external drive.

On the bottom side of Portege T133, there is hard disk and memory expansion slot, which is for the further upgrade.

We see that there are two stereo speakers placed in the left and right side of Portege T133.

Nowadays, the 13-inch screen notebook coming with DVD burner, Express card jack or eSATA is very common, but Portege T133 gives up these important things in order to pursuing the light weight.

Portege T133 comes with a wonderful keyboard design, the “Shift” key is wider and easier to use; moreover, the “Ctrl” key is on the left side of “Fn” key, which will fit the users’ habits. On the upper right side of the direction keys, there is a “Page up” key. It is a pity that the direction keys are a little smaller, which can not be used smoothly.

The gap of each key on the Toshiba Portege T133 is 19mm; it meets the requirements of the full-size keyboard. 15 × 15mm keycap will reduce the typing mistakes.

it is worth mentioning that touch pad buttons on Toshiba Portege T133 is used the design of QosMio series, which make it more beautiful.
Toshiba Portege T133 comes with an 80 × 38mm touch panel, which is added the multi-touch function; you can zoom, narrow or spin the pictures with the multi-touch functions.

Toshiba Protege T133 comes with a 13.3 inch LED screen with the resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, which is more suitable for playing high-definition video. The following pictures will show you a visible effect.

We can see that the front side viewing effect is good, while the horizontal and vertical viewing angles are not so good; the color is too dim or too bright.

There are two small utility software in the Protege T133, they are “ReelTime” and “Toshiba bulletin board”. Now we have a look on them.

ReelTime is a graphical history / index tool to help users to view multimedia files which is recently visited such as documents, photos or video; it can show the thumbnails directly, and it has the most translucent interface effect.

ReelTime interface on Toshiba Protege T133

ReelTime can be viewed by the default time period.

Now I will introduce the second software on Toshiba Protege T133 – “Toshiba bulletin board”. Bulletin board is a convenient area for you to drag our favorite pictures, documents or notes on it. It is a funny and creative ways for you to organize.

The layout of the main interface

Users can choose the background color, icon arrangement freely, and users can also write freely on it.

Toshiba pre-loaded with some popular software on Toshiba Protege T133 such as PC diagnostic tool, eco utility; users also can add their own applications easily.

Toshiba Protege T133 comes with a SU4100 processor, which is a highlight of this laptop.

We test the SU4100 processor with the wPrime 32M, the result shows that the performance of the SU4100 processor of Protege T133 is much better than the ULV single-core processor, the speed is closer to the same dual-core Atom 330 and the Celeron dual-core SU2300.

Than we test the Protege T133 with PCMark05. The 3209 high score is also better than the s Atom 330 and low-voltage version of the Celeron dual-core processor, the processor of Protege T133 is very good.

In the Cinebench R10 test, the Pentium dual-core SU4100 overall performance is eye-catching, score is ahead both the single-core Pentium Core 2 SU3500 and SU2700, and also exceeds the Celeron dual-core SU2300. Overall, the test results with SU4100 processor are meeting the market position.

Toshiba Satellite E205 today we review on is full of new ideas in appearance.This Toshiba Satellite E205 color is blue. The most difference of Toshiba Satellite E205 and previous M,T,L series is adpoting a new mold. Toshiba Satellite E205 also comes with 14 inch wide LED backlit LCD screen and its resolution is 1366×768.

The biggest change is “TOSHIBA” Logo position, from middle to decentralized location making entire surface smooth and using imprint process. Toshiba Satellite E205 shaft also has change, its axis stand operating area and surface using ABS plastic.

Unique Toshiba Satellite E205 axis  Toshiba Satellite E205 fuselage weight is 2.287kg(including battery).

Toshiba Satellite E205 travel weight is 2.825kg(inlcuding battery and adapter).

Through caliper measurements, Toshiba Satellite E205 body thickness is 32.59 millimeters thick, is thinner than the present conventional notebook, and create a kind of lightweight feel in side design.

Toshiba Satellite E205 operating area surface heritage Toshiba’s consistent design style. Toshiba Satellite E205 uses wide touch keyboard, its key distances are more reasonable, the overall percussion make you feel moderate, and keyboard glossy surface enhance the stylish of Toshiba Satellite E205.

Compared to Toshiba Portege M900 series, Toshiba Satellite E205 put switch power at the top of  keyboard and shortcut keys to the right side of keyboard. Through our actual test, Toshiba Satellite E205 keyboard are very sensitive and accompanied by sound in prompt.

Toshiba Satellite E205 keyboard.

Toshiba Satellite E205 power switch is circular and embeded with white lights, make you understand the boot state. The light located at the buttom are: eco energy saving mode, wireless network, screen brightness adjustment, play or pause, mute and volume adjustment. All shortcut keys light will turn white in standby mode.

Toshiba Satellite E205 power switch and touch shortcut keys.

Widened in-one Toshiba Satellite E205 touchpad.

Toshiba Satellite E205 not only shift power and buttons also longer the Toshiba Satellite E205 touchpad. Toshiba Satellite E205 is still used in –one touch pad, and its matte surface make operator feel more comfortable. In addition, there is shortcut lock keys beside the button.

Toshiba Satellite E205 keypad surrounding also adopts imprint process, smooth surface can highlight and underscoring its fashion. The new Toshiba Satellite E205 shows its fashion element whether in overall design or reveal details.

Toshiba Satellite E205 speaker are placed in front of the fuselage beneath the location, using the highly acclaimed harman/kardon, its amplification result make people satisfied through my actual use.

Toshiba Satellite E205 has status indicators, namely: wireless networking, Bluetooth, external power, sleep mode, battery charging , and reader status indicator that to facilitate the users to view the machine running.

Toshiba Satellite E205 speaker at the buttom of fuselage.

There are Windows 7 and NVIDIA discrete graphics labels, Toshiba Satellite E205 pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit operating system, and nVIDIA GeForce G 310M. The right palmrest shows Toshiba Satellite E205 equips with Core i5-430M dual-threaded processor.At the same time, Toshiba Satellite E205 has a slot-loading optical flash eagle drive which can automatically identify the standard plat and 8CM small discs.

Toshiba Satellite E205 right side has HDMI interface, eSATA port, USB interface, card reader interface and slot-loading DVD burner. It should be mentioned that the eSATA interface is also compatible with USB devices, so you figure the fuselage with a total of three USB port. In addition, we see that this machine is not configured a traditional tray-type drives, but the slot-loading DVD drive, so avoid users the tedious push-pull drive tray.

Toshiba Satellite E205 left side has a vent so the interface is relatively much less, only leaving a USB  interface and a pair of audio interface.

Toshiba Satellite E205 axis is a little up, and some interfaces can be arranged in the back. Usually VGA, network cable and power supply three interfaces are not often plug, and the alignment is relatively long, so it is very reasonable placed these interfaces in the back.

Toshiba Satellite E205 32nm processors and entry-level graphics cards does not produce much heat, but 30mm thickness body is indeed a test of cooling capacity. Toshiba Satellite E205 at the vents placed a row of metal to achieve a better cooling effect.

We use EVERest  to detect Toshiba Satellite E205 configuration, Toshiba Satellite E205 uses Core Duo Intel’s latest dual-core i5 430 family of processors and HM55 chipset motherboards, equipped with 2 × 2GB DDRIII-1066 memory, loaded with NVIDIA GeForce G 310M graphics card, while is also equipped with a 500GB 5400RPM SATA-II hard drive, DVD burner and 802.11n wireless template. There is also pre-installed 64bit Windows 7 Home Premium (Home Premium) operating system.

Intel Core i5 430 processor is based on Arrandale core, 32nm process technology, manufacturing, the default frequency / Core frequency, respectively 2.27GHz (19 × 133MHz) / 2.53MHz, supporting HT technology, and therefore dual-core four threads, a shared L3 cache of 3MB, 2-core of their respective exclusive 256KB of L2 cache. The new Core i5 processors have a higher frequency, and supports Hyper-Threading Technology Core frequency and synchronization, in addition to Intel’s integrated graphics chip, mainly located in mid-end notebook market.

CINEBench is using the CPU testing a high-precision 3D rendering scenes images on a single processor, single-threaded the next run only once, if the system has more than one processor core or multi-threading, then the first time use only one thread, the first second to run all the processor cores and threads. Finally the processor in a single, multi-core test scores were 3436 hours and 7793 hours. Overall, the Intel Core i5 430 with low power consumption and high efficiency of the intelligence structure to bring a strong performance of the Toshiba Satellite E205, and can capable of much faster response to everyday computing and entertainment needs.

Toshiba Satellite E205 uses own production 500GB 400RPM SATAII hard drives through the HD Tune test. After complete testing, it is easy to see this piece of the hard disk average reading rate is 56.4MB / s, burst transfer rate is 97.8MB / s. While in the test graph with a few minor ups and downs phenomenon, the overall read speed is still very stable. We will use Windows 7 performance evaluation tool and machine performance testing PCMark Vantage software test scores as a reference in overall performance evaluation. Toshiba Satellite E205 official pre-installed Home Premium version of Windows 7, even though many of my friends that the system is not an objective assessment of the results, but the hardware indicators able to measure the standard software for machine performance can still tend to provide an effective reference , in particular, its score is also a direct reflection of the current operating system Windows 7’s performance capability. Compared with the former, PCMark Vantage is necessary to look more professional, and it is for the same hardware, the performance of different states are very sensitive, full of professional data also allow us the measured performance of the system has an in-depth understanding.

Windows 7 system gives a score of 5.0, this is also the graphics score. The processor got the highest scores while the memory, games, graphics and hard drive performance are also very stable score. Then we use the PCMark Vantage software to test overall performance, while the PCMark Vantage a more focused application of multi-functional notebook tests, the final test a total score of 5619 points, in which all the test scores are showing a good performance power of Toshiba Satellite E205 notebook in its class.

Toshiba Satellite E205 equips with independent graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce G 310M. NVIDIA GeForce G 310M is mainly for the mainstream market (entry level), the specification essentially the same as with the G 210M. NVIDIA GeForce G 310M also has 16 stream processors, floating point performance 73GFlops, Shader unit frequency of 1530MHz, Memory Interface 64-bit, maximum capacity of 512MB, the maximum frequency of 800MHz (GDDR3/DDR3). Support for PureVideo HD, PhysX, CUDA, OpenCL, HybridPower, PCI-E 2.0, PowerMizer 8.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, HDCP and other technologies, 310M also supports DirectX 10.1.

3DMark Vantage is the first exclusively comprehensive benchmarking tool based on Microsoft DirectX10 API interface, and Windows Vista operating system can give full play to the advantages of multiple graphics cards and  multi-core processors, you can in the current and future period of time to meet the PC System game performance testing needs.

In the 1024 × 768 resolution Entry mode, Toshiba Satellite E205 final test score is 5893 points, which GPU the score of 5558 points. In the same price of notebook, such 3D performance can only be considered general, but this performance is still able to meet their most fashionable white-collar workers sound entertainment applications. In addition, the low quality can also be run most of the mainstream 3D games under the present.

I believe we all think of a problem, and that is to use i5 an entry-level graphics processor configuration would appear inconsistent. Yes, for users who focus on game performance, this configuration is indeed strange. However, not all products are born for games. For the office worker or some users who rarely play games, high-end graphics cards can be said to be a cumbersome, not only increased the heat has reduced the battery life, and they configure the integrated graphics or a low-end discrete graphics products are the first choice.

Acer Aspire 5738DG is the first notebook equipped with 3D screen, use the circular polarizer principle to provide a more low-cost 3D solution. Acer Aspire 5738DG and 3D glasses are not too expensive. Acer Aspire 5738DG also an 15.6-inch entry-level gaming notebook.

The special place of Acer Aspire 5738DG is the built-in 3D screen and also can change 2D photo and video to 3D which means as long as built-in TriDef 3D playback software, as well as accompanying 3D partial optical glasses, even if you do not play native 3D, it can simulate 3D threee dimensional effect.

Acer Aspire 5738DG is still extended Aspire style, round edges, slightly circular fuselage lines. Acer Aspire 5738DG cover is blue as usual, IMR plastic material, embedded Acer logo in the middle. Acer Aspire 5738DG cover still has a common problem for leaving fingerprints.

You must open Acer Aspire 5738DG body card tenon first if you want to open the screen, this retro design make it different from the current mainstream laptop.

Acer Aspire 5738DG 15.6 inch screen is 1366×768 resolution, backlight feels quite bright. Such a high brightnes backlight just to make up loss of brightness of 3D polarized glasses.

In order to render 3D effects, Acer Aspire 5738DG adds a linear polarizing film with a special two circular polarizing film optical coatings but does not make the screen become particularly thick. However, a closer look will see faint horizontal lines. Fortunately, this image quality does not have great effect under normal circumstances.

Acer Aspire 5738DG inside color is Acer style, simple silver and black mix, coupled with decorative blue button. A number of shortkeys in keyboard, including WiFi switch, bluetooth switch, fast backup button for a group of area, volume + / – shortcut keys, as well as customizable keys P program. The keyboard set up an independent numeric keypad, touchpad equips close button and fingerprint reader.

Acer Aspire 5738DG inevitably be more heavy for its built-in drive, 15.6 inch screen.
Acer Aspire 5738DG body size is 383×250x37mm, the offical weight is 2.8 kilograms.

Acer Aspire 5738DG has 300,000 video camera, emphasizing the better shooting capabilities in low-light.
Acer Aspire 5738DG D0lby speakers, power button, WiFi switch, Bluetooth switch and fast backup button.

Mic is located in the central of  Acer Aspire 5738DG(at the top of F11).
There are P program key and volume adjust buttons in the right. It is convenient that if there is a mute button.

Acer Aspire 5738DG touch pad has fingerprint reader in the key position.
Acer Aspire 5738DG interfaces emphasis on its multimedia orientation, also providing VGA and HDMI outputs, three terminals in stereo which provides 5.1-channel analog output, headphone jack is digital S/PDIF optical output, HDMI can also output digital audio.

Acer Aspire 5738DG also equipped with a sufficient number four USB interfaces (left two and right two ), and has a very rare RJ11 modem port. The lack interfaces including IEEE 1394, ExpressCard, eSATA.

Front of Acer Aspire 5738DG : Multi-in-one card reader, radiator, screen cards tenon, light indicator (power / charge).

Back of Acer Aspire 5738DG: the screen shaft, cooling holes.

Left of Acer Aspire 5738DG: power connector, RJ45 interface, HDMI, VGA video output, two USB ports, Line-in jack, Mic jack and Headphone jack.

Right of Acer Aspire 5738DG: two USB interfaces, DVD burner, RJ11 modem port and security keyhole.

Acer Aspire 5738DG keyboard uses unique Acer flat floating buttons. It looks like a thin film floating keys on the keyboard area.

Acer Aspire 5738DG floating keyboard.

Acer Aspire 5738DG touchpad has a virtual scroll.

Acer Aspire 5738DG equips with Intel C2D T6600 (2.2GHz). This processor is lower than T8000, P8000, P7000 series but better than  Pentium T3000, T4000 series. Furthermore, energy saving does not compare with CULV series but it has a higher value of performance advantages of high CP.

Acer Aspire 5738DG has 500GB HDD, and comes with 64-bit Windows 7 operating system. The only regret is proloaded with 2GB memory. Not only fail to take full advantage of Win7 performance, but also let 64 bit version become more meaningless. There is reserved a slot, I recommend to install 2GB DDR2 memory.

3D screen is the most important feature of the Acer Aspire 5738DG also the main selling point.

In this brief to explain the priciples of 3D imaging. Most 3D imaging techiques is to left and right eye see an individual parallax images at the same time, and let us composition of 3D images in their minds.

Another technique is mainly used in the cinema, which is like a kind of 3D movies Avatar. It needs two projectors when play, and add polarized lenses in front of the camera, let left and right eyes images with different polarization directions hit the screen. The audience wearing polaized in different directions to filter the different polarization images, so you can see images you want to see, so as to form a three-dimensional feeling.

Pro of Acer Aspire 5738DG
1. Inexpensive 3D display platform;
2. Can show 2D photos into a virtual 3D video;
3. Convenient shortcut keys;
4. Dolby sound;
5. The efficacy is reasonable.
Disadvantages of Acer Aspire 5738DG:
1. Polarizing-type 3D display quality is poor;
2. Plane turn 3D is ineffective;
3. Low-level single significant 3D performance is still insufficient;
4. Battery endurance only about 2 hours.

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is similar to the laptop ThinkPad X200; Lenovo ThinkPad X201 looks similar to ThinkPad T series notebooks, it is just smaller than ThinkPad T series laptop. Although Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is much smaller, it still comes with a full-size keyboard. Well the palmrest is a litter bit narrow.

Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is light and thin, it is easy to carry it around. And the performance of Lenovo ThinkPad X201 is also better and stronger than that of the same size netbooks and VULV laptops. Moreover, the ThinkPad X201’s hinge is very solid; you can use it on the go comfortably. ThinkPad X201 comes with a durable keyboard, sturdy plastic cladding as well as alloy chassis.

ThinkPad X201’s bottom panel can be open easily, so you can easy to upgrade memory and replace the hard drive with retaining the side panel.

ThinkPad X201 features a 12.1-inch screen with the resolution of 1280×800 pixels. But the screen’s color saturation and contrast is not so good, which seems the shortcomings of the majority of business notebooks. The vertical angle in the forward or backward 10-15 degrees will inverse, but the horizontal viewing angel is much better.

The keyboard of ThinkPad X201 is as same as the keyboard of ThinkPad X200, so every ThinkPad fan will know the quality of the keyboard. It has a good texture of every key, and there is no noise when you type on the keyboard of ThinkPad X201. I think it is a piece of cake for you to type on such a good ThinkPad X201’s keyboard.

This may be a personalized feature for ThinkPad X201, ThinkPad X201 comes with a touchpad which don’t appear before. As ThinkPad X series is only equipped with trackpoint, so many people will spend more time to adapt it. I think you will like the touchpad more than the trackpoint, as the touchpad had an excellent response time with no noticeable lag and each axis offered the same acceleration rate to prevent unwanted ovals.

ThinkPad X201 is equipped with a 9-cell battery, and the battery can last for 10 and half hours. How long the battery life is.

X201 is still retained three USB2.0 ports, a VGA port, Ethernet Card, ExpressCard/54, audio and modem jack. For storage expansion, Lenovo also provides a SDHC memory card slot which is located in the front side of palmrest.

Front side of Lenovo ThinkPad X201: SDHC card slot

Rear side of Lenovo ThinkPad X201: battery

The right side of Lenovo ThinkPad X201: USB port, headphone, microphone, RJ11, Kesington.

The left side of Lenovo ThinkPad X201: Power jack, heat vents, USB, VGA, RJ45, ExpressCarD/54, USB, wireless switch.

ThinkPad X201 comes with Intel Core i7-640LM (2.13GHz, 4MB Cache) processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM (2GB + 2GB), Intel QM57 Express Chipset, 320GB hard drive, pre-installed Windows 7 Professional (64bit) or Windows XP Professional systems.

wPrime is a multi-threaded processor forced to mathematical procedures, it makes full use of CPU’s computing power, data obtained from a relatively is very accurate.

wPrime 32M comparison results:

PCMark05 is to test the overall performance of your laptop; it can also test the performance of processor, hard drive, memory.

PCMark05 score (the score is the higher, the better)

3DMark06 is to test the notebook graphics performance (the score is the higher, the better):

3DMark06 comparison results:

HDTune hard drive test:

As a high-end business notebook, HP Elitebook 6930p is fashionable, safe as well as humanization; and specifications and practical functions of HP Elitebook 6930p are favored by elites. No wonder that some people describe Elitebook 6930p as a private consultant. Today I will let you know it.

HP injects more fashion elements into HP Elitebook 6930p notebook; it comes with a polar-alumina coated magnesium alloy shell, which makes HP Elitebook 6930p be full of vigour.

HP Elitebook 6930p is very durable, for example, the shell of HP Elitebook 6930p is very hard, even you press hard on it, there is no corrugate on the screen. In addition, Elitebook 6930p also constitutes a honeycomb-like structure, which makes the laptop more conducive and easier to heat dissipation.

The screen hinge is still using the “convex” shape design; it has a brushed metal texture.

HP Elitebook 6930p comes with a 14.1-inch LED-backlit screen. In order to ensure the security of users’ business applications, Elitebook 6930p’s screen is covered with an Anti-view Protetor. With it, you don’t worry about that someone nearby will glimpse your data.

As a high-end business notebook, HP EliteBook 6930p features general interfaces such as external display output, video recording, eyboard and mouse devices, as well as multi-card reader.

There are no so many interfaces on the front side of HP EliteBook 6930p; there is just a multi-card reader, business card recognition slot and sound system. It is worth mentioning that the acoustics of EliteBook 6930p is good.

Next we take a look at the right side interfaces on EliteBook 6930p, it is includes the DVD burner, a USB2.0, RJ45, and RJ11 network jack. Some people will find that there is a very flat slot above the drive that is Smart-Card slot. It can improve the security of the laptop, for example, you can restrict the laptop to turn on or off; and you can also lock the peripherals of HP EliteBook 6930p such as the keyboard, mouse, and USB peripheral device.

On the left side of EliteBook 6930p, there are two USB2.0, 1394 port, audio I / O jack, as well as the Express-Card slot.

On the rear side of EliteBook 6930p, the battery takes the most space, so there is just a security keyhole, power jack, and VGA video output.

Now we have a look on business card recognition slot, insert the business card into the business card recognition slot, the HP EliteBook 6930p laptop will directly import information from business cards to its built-in business card software by the 2 million-pixel high-definition camera. So you will not upset about loosing the important business cards.

EliteBook 6930p’s screen can do 180-degree opening and closing. So it is available for you to stand or sit to do your business.

The control interface of HP EliteBook 6930p is similar to that of HP EliteBook 6910, and the layout of the keys or texture of the keys are both comfortable and easy to use.

The 6930p has master keypad and function keys area, the latter one comes with ndependent F1 ~ F12, insert, home, page up and other function keys and direction keys. The full-size keycap and the key space both give users a quiet, accurate, and comfortable operating experience.

6930p notebook features the trackpoint + touchpad dual-control mode. These two control keys are covered with a hard rubber material with excellent texture, so you can have an easy click.

HP EliteBook 6930p’s keyboard comes with touch shortcut keys; users can turn on HP Info Center, wireless networking, presentation output function, or adjust the volume by touching the keys lightly. It is worth mentioning is that HP has also added specifically light perception module to HP EliteBook laptops; it will adjust the laptop screen brightness through collecting the brightness of the environment.

As HP EliteBook 6930p is equipped with a 14.1-inch LED-backlit screen, so the color saturation and effect is slightly better that the CCFL screen.

Above the screen, besides the camera, it has added a light and screen buckles, allowing users to enjoy a safe and user-friendly experience. With the light above the screen, it allows you to see clearly the keyboard in at night.

In order to increase the security after the screen is closed, it adds the screen buckle design, so that it will be more stable when the screen is closed.

This is the bottom side of HP EliteBook 6930p; you can see clearly the division of every function blocks. We will be expressed by its docking slot and a wide range of cooling holes.

The docking slot has enriched the notebook’s applications. The expansion slot of EliteBook 6930p is compatible for the use of HP-specific docking slot, and also can provide more expansion slot and battery life. Under the slide cover, it is the interface for connecting the docking battery.

The lower left side of EliteBook 6930p is the hard drive.

Under the docking station slot, it is the memory slot. Users can add or change the memory module easily to meet the requirement of high performance.

There is a wireless signal icon on the left panel; presumably it is equipped with wireless cards and other wireless devices.

It is worth mentioning that there is a SIM card slot inside the battery slot, this is a new design for HP’s business notebook, and users can get access to internet by SIM card or 3G network.

HP EliteBook 6930p comes with a 6-cell 55Wh lithium ion battery providing about 3 hours battery life.

When we remove the rear cover of HP EliteBook 6930p, we find that there is no wireless device on under the area marked with wireless icon. There are just two antennas, but where is the Intel Wireless5100 wireless card?

Then we find that there is just one memory slot and a 2GB DDR2 memory under when we remove the rear cover of HP EliteBook 6930p.

Now, we start to disassemble the keyboard, when the keyboard is removed, we know where the wireless card and another memory module.

The wireless card is beneath the right side of the keyboard. And the wireless slot we mentioned just now on bottom side of HP EliteBook 6930 is for the use of SIM card expansion.

And another memory module is beneath the keyboard.

Now we have a look on HP EliteBook 6930’s cooling system, the fan beneath the keyboard is connected with cooling copper of the South Bridge, North Bridge chip; which makes the laptop much cooler.

HP EliteBook 6930p’s keyboard has the spill-resistant function as the keyboard is protected by a transparent insulation layer.

HP EliteBook 6930p is equipped with a replaceable hard.

Lenovo idea pad uses multi-touch technology which can achieve computer operation functions by more than one finger, operation is similar to Apple iPhone. It is very easy if you use skillfully.

Now a lot of notebook use LED-backlit screen, Lenovo IdeaPad is no exception. In the past LED screen is only used in high-end models, it has higher contrast and wider color gamut in video, also has a greater viewing angle compare to traditional LCD screen. The most important is LED screen is more slim.

There are some soft materials around the roof and middle and contact with the LCD screen which play a certain protective effect and buffer external impact to LCD screen. Lenovo IdeaPad S series also built-in camera,users can chat with friend, very convenient.

Lenovo IdeaPad S series adopt 85% full-size keyboard, for women friends, control them should be very handy, but for man users, I’m afraid not so comfortable.

Lenovo IdeaPad S motherboard pros and cons workmanship is very reassuring, overall layout is more reasonable.

This is Lenovo IdeaPad S built-in Bluetooth module, and it uses the Broadcom solution. It has a broader range of applications if has a bluetooth function compared to other similar products.

Lenovo still uses Broadcom solution in wireless network chips. This BCM94312MCG is currently the mainstream models, many famous brand use it so do not worry about the quality.

Users can connect to wireless network whether it is browsing website or video is relying on this wireless card chip.

Dell announced Latitude 13 which is similar to Dell Vostro V13, while Dell Latitude 13 is more concerned about system management as well as different services supporting. Dell Latitude 13 supports virtualization and Broadcom TruManage technology. Dell Latitude 13 laptop is safer than before by providing full-disk encryption and TPM chip.

The Dell Latitude 13 is a business grade portable laptop with a preinstalled Citrix client, easier virtualization options, and an IT-friendly infrastructure for distributing system images for software updates.

Latitude 13 notebook weighs just 3.36 pounds and less than 1 inch thick, using aluminum alloy casing. Dell Latitude 13 is at the dimensions of 33 x 23 x 2 inches. Latitude 13 features a 13.3-inch LCD backlight screen with the resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.

Dell Latitude 13 will be equipped with a 3.2 million pixel camera, two USB 3.0, a port hybrid eSATA / USB, SD card reader, ExpressCard as well as 64GB solid state hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G network, Bluetooth and WWAN wireless connectivity.

Dell Latitude 13 is equipped with Intel Celeron 743-1.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 at 1.4 GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 1.3 GHz supported by the memory type DDR3-1066 (4GB max in a slot). Latitude 13 also comes with operating system Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP or Linux Ubuntu.
Fashionable and ultra-thin Latitude 13 supports lots of business features such as remote management function, optional integrated webcam and microphone and excellent moving connectivity. Moreover, Latitude 13 gets Citrix and Vmware certification to support desktop virtualization.

Dell Latitude 13’s pricing will start at less than 1,000 dollars and be available in next few weeks.

First, prepare two small screwdrivers and a clean brush. You must remove battery to avoid unnecessary losses.

We can see some parts of memory and network cards after removed the first below rear cover. There are several screws which can be link to uninstall drive and motherboard screws.

Remove the baffle first.

You can see this baffle and shaft are on a plastic. It is need to uninstall the screws.

Following dismantle the keyboard.

There are two screws on the keyboard. Remove and you can see some cables there.

Take off the cables.

You can directly the entire screen by removing four screws and screen cables.

The next is LCD screeb cable. Just be careful for this is very fragile.

This screen and the motherboard completely out of respect.

Pick up the data cable which is link touchpad and motherboard. Out of C-shell of notebook from right to left.

There are a lot of cables on the motherboard.

Remove the screws which fix motherboard and open the D-shell of notebook.

ACER ASPIRE-3680 Fan

It is need to remove data cables in advance.

Be careful that from top to bottom to get out of the motherboard.

Take a look at ACER notebook bottom shell.

Turn over motherboard and you will see ACER ASPIRE-3680 Fan.  Focus on ACER ASPIRE-3680 motherboard.

We begin to dismantle the fan.

You must pull down power cord which link to fan.

To install back you can just in turn. In fact, ACER ASPIRE series are almost the same.