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Toshiba Satellite A355 Review :-
The A350 series notebook is the latest 16″ notebook from Toshiba and the successor to the 15.4” A305. This new model offers the same look and feel of its smaller brother as well as the same system configuration. In this review we take a look at the Intel configuration of the A355 and find out if it performs as well as its smaller brother.

Toshiba Satellite A355-S6943 Specifications:-

• Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 64-bit)
• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P7450 (2.13GHz, 3MB L2, 1066MHz FSB)
• 16.0″ diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT LCD display at 1366×768 (WXGA)
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 with 512MB video memory
• Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN (802.11a/g/n)
• 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM (maximum capacity 4GB)
• 500GB+250GB Serial ATA hard disk drive (5400RPM)
• DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive with Labelflash
• 1.3 megapixel webcam
• Harmon/Kardon stereo speakers
• Dimensions (WxDxH): 15.1″ x 10.5″ x 1.6″
• Weight: 6 lbs 11.6oz with six-cell battery
• 90W (19V x 6.3A) 100-240V AC Adapter
• 6-cell 10.8v 44Wh Lithium Ion battery
• 1-Year Standard Limited Warranty
• Price as configured: $1,149.99

Display :-

The 16” TruBrite display features a 16:9 ratio and has good color saturation and contrast thanks in part to the glossy polarizer layer. Compared to other notebooks this panel falls into the middle of the ground with average viewing angles. Vertical viewing angles are limited to a sweet spot that ranges about 15 degrees up or down before colors start to invert or wash out. Horizontal viewing angles are better, staying accurate at steep angles from both sides. Backlight levels are great for viewing in bright conditions, but aren’t bright enough for outdoor viewing.

Build and Design :-

The A355 is nearly identical to the older A305 notebook, even sharing the same overall design and paint job. The plastics are glossy or even mirror-like over much of the notebook. The cover has a pinstripe metallic silver and chrome pattern, changing to a chrome and black pattern on the inside. The keyboard shares the same high gloss look with black paint and white lettering. The lower half of the chassis is standard plastic with a matte finish, with removable covers for each user-replaceable part.
The Toshiba A355 feels very durable through the use of good plastics and the scratch-resistant Fusion finish. Chassis flex is minimal if you are holding the notebook from a side corner. Screen protection is pretty good with only mild screen distortions when pressing on the back of the display cover. The glossy Fusion finish holds up well against day to day abrasions … which might include slipping it in and out of your backpack as you take it to class.

Keyboard and Touchpad :-

The glossy keyboard is comfortable to type on, but not the easiest to read in bright rooms. The keyboard surface is firm with minimal flex under hard typing and individual key action is smooth with a mild click when pressed. The glossy surface reflects glare from overhead lights, which depending on the angle completely wash out the white lettering on each key. Smudges are another problem with the glossy surface which needs to be wiped down frequently to keep its clean fingerprint-free look.
Toshiba included an ALPS touchpad on the A355, which after some tweaking became very usable. Out of the box the cursor was very twitchy until I ramped up the sensitivity and lowered the speed. The touchpad surface is a matte overlay on the palmrest with the color scheme slightly showing through. The surface was easy to move across under most conditions, but the flush surface made it hard to stay within the boundaries. Scrolling took a while to get used to since I kept moving off of the touchpad surface.
The A355 also supports disabling the lights for the media keys and around the touchpad. This can help reduce all the distracting illumination “features” when watching a movie with the lights out.

Ports and Features:-

Port selection on the A355 is great, with four USB ports, FireWire, eSATA through a USB combo port, S-Video, HDMI, VGA, LAN, and audio jacks. This notebook also features a 5-in-1 multicard reader, ExpressCard/54 slot, and a FM Tuner. In this day and age the S-Video port is somewhat of a mystery, but at least they didn’t take away something else to fit that on the side. The FM Tuner is great if you don’t want to be connected to the internet to listen to streaming music, but it does require a whip antenna attached to the side to function.

Acer introduce two new notebook crop equipped with Intel’s new Centrino Duo stage.

The Aspire 5670 will be available in a few different configurations starting at $1499, but the flagship mock-up will feature 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 120GB hard disk, and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics manager pushing a greatest resolution of 1200 by 800 to the 15.4-inch display.

An adjustable 1.3-megapixel CMOS camera is built into the lid just above the display and works with Acer’s bundled face tracking and video conferencing software. Acer also include its own easy-to-use software that can encrypt secret files, backup, recover and optimize the hard disk, and adjust system settings in just a little clicks.

Included Aspire Arcade software brings jointly multimedia viewing and authoring tools which work with the unit’s double layer DVD writer and media card person who reads.

Acer also showcased its dual-core TravelMate 8200 notebook. It offers similar specifications to the Aspire 5650, including the same new camera functionality and scheme tools, but ships with superior 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics deliver a resolution of 1680 by 1050 to its 15.4-inch screen.

The TravelMate 8200 also seems more listening carefully on toughness than the Aspire range. It includes a rigid carbon-fiber cover (until now only see on Acer’s Ferrari notebooks), in addition to hard disk anti-shock defense, and a motion sensor that can protect the hard disk given unexpected movement–like being dropped–and purpose as an anti-theft alarm. A SmartCard reader also works with Acer software to give one-click file encryption and endorsement.Configurations of the dual-core TravelMate 8200 are predictable to create at $1999.

The devise and functionality of the HTC Shift could alter the opinion on UMPCs in a drastic way. HTC succeeded to build a UMPC tha combine the huge advantages of a compact PDA with the unending possibilities of a good laptop. With the full and handy QWERTY keyboard, the HTC Shift could blow away all likely succes of spirited UMPCs.

THe HTC benefit still operated on Windows Mobile 6, while the new HTC SHift is the first HTC device that operate on Windows Vista. The piece of equipment is smaller than the HTC Advantage, but in change for this, the user is offered a 7 inch colour display and a larger keyboard.

The display of the device can be turned into quite a few directions like a “communicator” due to the slide and turn machinery. Because of this, the user can adjust the display so it will have the best possible view angle. The HTC Shift seems to be the first device that really closes the gap between the PDA and the laptop, althought the HTC benefit also did quite a good job.

HTC did not let go all details of the HTC Shift at its presentation. It is clear though that the device has a 30 gigabyte harddisk and, according to trust, the device is ready with a 1.2 Ghz processor.

It is predictable that the HTC Shift will approach to the European and American market at the third quarter of 2007. The European model will be equipped with UMTS and HSDPA support. The American model will have GSM, GPRS and EDGE hold up. Besides this, both variant have WiFi built-in. Bluetooth support is also included into the HTC Shift.

single of the most powerful laptops to date was presented by VoodooPC so the market continues to enjoy its usually high portable PC.

Envy H:171 is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo, is equipped with two graphics adapters Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 and can hold up up to three 200 Gb hard drives. It weighs 5.2 kg. The device is an advanced betting laptop, but it can also easily put back a desktop PC due to effective work with graphics-intensive application.VoodooPC Envy H:171 is ready with large 17-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels and will cost at least $ 5000.But it is the price of the base set of VoodooPC Envy H:171, which includes a 80 Gb hard drive, 1GB of RAM and Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. At the same time, this laptop with 600 GB of hard drive legroom, 4 GB of RAM and Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, as well as TV-tuner and exclusive color of corps will cost $ 10,500.

(F71 in carbon fiber)

(press shots of the F-series)

Sony now announced they’re killing the TR series in Japan, but one step back, two steps forward: they’ve broken out a hype little new thin n’ light n’ wide called the F-series (yes, there was by now an F series, thanks Sony!), which will come in F20, F30, F50, and F70 flavors, have CPUs up to Pentium M 740s, have a resolution of 1600×1200 (and up to 2048×1536 on the F70, though we’re not sure how those resolutions are going to work on a wide screen like that), 80GB drive, dual-layer DVD±R/RW/RAM. Perhaps best of all, though, is its capacity: 14.3-inches wide, 10.4-deep, and 1-thick. Read on for the diets about the T71 and T90 and for some more pictures.

We have got a lot to talk about today, so we just gone give you the straight deets: the T51, T71, and T90 are replacing the T50 and T70 with a Pentium M 1.2GHz in the T71, and Celeron M1 in the T51. The T90 is the same as the T71, however, but in a carbon-fiber case (kind of like the X505). Formally in yearn.