Samsung: Five New Notebook Models

Notebookitalia revealed Samsung’s five new laptop models: The ultraportable Samsung Q210 (12.1″) and Q310 (13.3″) as well as the mainstream R510 Aura (15.4″, WXGA) and R560 (15.4″, WSXGA+). The 17″ bang is the Samsung R710 with a WUXGA display (1920 x 1200 pixels).
The subnotebooks Q210 and Q310 come with actual Intel CPUs, Core 2 [...]

MSI: Nice AMD ‘Griffin’ Turion X2 Ultra Processor ‘Puma’ Notebooks

AMD formally announced Griffin – Turion X2 Ultra – and since we first heard about Puma, AMD still remains careful about comparing its own CPU against Intel’s Core 2 Duo at this time. Anyway: MSI has the specifications for appealing 15.4″, 16″ and 17″ laptops with the Puma mobile platform online and the specs of [...]

Compal: New Centrino 2 ‘Montevina’ Barebone Notebooks

Compal is one of the major ODM/OEM companies, whose notebook and laptop barebones are found amongst all big brands worldwide. So Compal’s announcement of notebooks and laptops with Intel Centrino 2 ‘Montevina’ mobile platform gets for sure a lot of attention. No surprise: Two models are aimed towards the 15.4“ segment – JHL90 and JHL91, [...]

NVIDIA GeForce 9M Series: Notebook PC GPU at Computex 2008

On June 3, 2008 NVIDIA announced its GeForce 9M series graphics processors (GPU) that incorporate the company’s new Hybrid SLI technology. NVIDIA claims that the GeForce 9M GPUs are the fastest notebook PC GPUs on the planet allowing you to blaze through games, work on 3D applications and enjoy HD movies. The GeForce 9M GPUs [...]