Intel Core i7 640UM Performance Review: Intel Plays Fast and Loose with TURBO BOOST!!!

by Matthew Smith 11.19.2010

One of the many websites I write for is PC Perspective, a computer hardware site for which I often times write laptop reviews. Recently I had the chance to throughly test a laptop equipped with a Core i7 640UM processor. I was excited when I first began to fire up the benchmarks because I had [...]

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Nvidia Deathwatch Part 4: The Growing Zacate Problem

by Matthew Smith 11.11.2010

2011 is going to be a big year for x86 processors. It is the year that will see the release of new processor architectures by both Intel and AMD. At a deeper level, these architectures are very different, but the goal of each processor is the same. Both Intel and AMD wanted to improve the [...]

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The Three Best Netbook Bags

by Eli Misel 11.09.2010

This is a guest post by author Eli Misel. Eli is the creator of www.TechLackey.com, a website focused on all things related to technology in today’s society.  If you are looking for ways to mod and hack your favorite electronic devices, be sure to check out his website. Netbooks are quickly becoming the grab and go [...]

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What is the Best Size for a Laptop Screen?

by Matthew Smith 11.04.2010

Laptops come in all shapes and sizes. For the most part, the size of a laptop is determined by the size of the laptop’s display. The reason for this is fairly obvious – a 13 inch display is a 13 inch display, and it can’t be miniaturized or changed without being a smaller display! The size of [...]

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A Back*slap* to the Mac

by Matthew Smith 10.22.2010

Like so many other tech journalists I tuned in to watch the Back to the Mac conference on Wednesday. This was the first live Apple conference I’ve ever watched, and I initially tried to view it on my Windows machine in Chrome – only to find that, in classic Apple tradition, the stream was blocked. [...]

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OnLive Performance Review: Mainstream Gaming for Laptops?

by Matthew Smith 10.19.2010

You could be forgiven for missing the fact that OnLive, the gaming service that lets you play games in the cloud, has already launched. The service’s beta days were subject to much attention, both positive and negative. Yet, now that the service has launched, people don’t seem to be paying much attention. That’s a shame, [...]

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Nvidia Deathwatch Part 3: Playing Hardball With Vendors

by Matthew Smith 10.12.2010

The ability to work well with others is important to any company, but it is more important to companies that are small than those that are large. Large companies are, uh, large. They can push around, bully and otherwise mess with smaller companies at their leisure. Wal-Mart is a good example of this attitude, as [...]

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Did Our Laptops Murder PC Gaming?

by Matthew Smith 10.07.2010

When I was in high-school the act of playing a video game was as socially acceptable as announcing to the world that you’d contracted leprosy. People played games, of course – many kids had Playstations, Gamecubes and other such consoles. But gaming was not something it was okay to talk about. Uttering a sentence about [...]

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Lenovo Sells 60 Millionth Thinkpad, Celebrates by Adding Optimus

by Matthew Smith 10.05.2010

It’s nice to see a brand of laptop that you respect be successful. The Thinkpad, by all accounts, is a rather arcane brand that largely refuses to sacrifice its fundamentals on the alter of coolness. Thinkpads are still boring bricks, the glossy red Edge aside – and even that model proves itself to be built in the name [...]

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Nvidia Deathwatch Part 2: Big Fish in a Little Pond

by Matthew Smith 09.28.2010

This post is part 2 in my Nvidia deathwatch series. The first article can be found here. Some good news appears to have come across the wires for Nvidia. Rumor has it that Nvidia’s Tegra 2, the company’s tiny system-on-a-chip, has finally found a home in devices from companies including Motorola, HTC, Toshiba and ASUS. [...]

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