The model we are looking at here is the 2.5GHz dual-core i5 with 4GB ram and 500GB hard drive. We’ll also be checking out some Thunderbolt storage devices soon.
We’ve got out hands on the entry-level 11-inch model with 64GB SSD, 2GB RAM and 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 CPU. I’ve only had a chance to use the Air briefly, as it arrived from Apple yesterday, but so far I am really impressed with the performance. While it’s obviously not as quick as my [...]
We have known about the Motorola XOOM for quite a while now and it has even been on sale in the USA for some time. Not only can you now buy it here in the UK but Motorola kindly sent me one to review. Being an iPad user myself I was rather excited to test [...]
Unless you have been living in a cave for the past week you’ll know that the iPad 2 went on sale in another 25 countries yesterday, including the UK. It you’ve been following us on twitter you may have seen our tweets from yesterday where Tracy and I were waiting in line for just over [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab was announced and released a while ago but it’s been so popular that we’ve actually struggled to get our hands on one to review. However, a few days ago one arrived from Clove Technology for us to take a look at. -Matt
The Archos 101 is a much anticipated Android tablet. Whilst Samsung occupy the high end of the market with the £500 Galaxy Tab and an endless slew of cheap and nasty tablets invade from every other company looking to make a buck Archos focuses on a mid-range that is going to appeal to the majority. [...]
We are looking here at the Toshiba Mini NB250. This one has been on the market for a little while but as the price has now come down a little this appears to be, on the face of it, a good value netbook. With a run-time of 8.7 hours (claimed) it could be ideal for [...]
Running Android 1.6 with a 7″ Touchscreen, 128MB ram and SD card support the Eken M001 seems like a decent toy for the £100 mark, about a quarter of the price of the iPad for example. Should Apple be scared? Er, definitely not but there are several manufacturers out there now offering alternatives so we [...]
The Streak is a decent looking MID (mobile internet device) although many comment that it looks like a large Blackberry Storm. The spec is also good, 1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM and 5″ screen with ‘Gorilla Glass’ which is all but indestructible. Perhaps the only disappointment with the device is that it’s currently shipping [...]
The iPad, like many Apple products, seems to be falling in to the Marmite category, either you love it or hate it. After just a few hours using the iPad I can tell you that I am definitely in the love it camp! I’m pretty sure that the iPad will be one of those pieces [...]
We managed to get the new unibody HTC Legend – an Android 2.1-based device with the latest HTC Sense interface. Here we have a look at the phone and the interface itself, plus a look at the build and how the battery is inserted – this is a full unboxing, straight from the jiffy bag! [...]
Android is definitely going from strength to strength finding its way on to ever more mobile phones from different manufacturers and other products such as the Archos 5 portable media player. Now, with the release of the Aspire One D250 we’re starting to see Android on netbooks too! -Matt
A small Netbook from Toshiba, the NB200 is a neat little computer, lets take a look… -Matt
The Acer Aspire Revo is an ultra small form factor PC and is probably among the smallest we’ve seen. Combining the power of the NVidia 9400M Graphics Processor with the lean efficiency of the Intel N230 Processor, the Aspire Revo redefines compact, affordable computing with a package that is big on performance but miniscule in [...]
I think that it’s fair to say that Asus played a fairly big role in the success and popularity of the netbook PC over the past few years with the Eee PC 701 selling in such vast quantities that it was hard to get hold of in the early days. Now it seems that all [...]
Perhaps the one thing that makes the Aspire 4810T stand out from the rest of the crowd is the claim that the battery life is around 9 hours! Now we’ve all heard claims of exceptional battery life from manufacturers and they are often then subject to a caveat that it’s x hours of light use. [...]
The Viliv S5 is a pretty well spec’d MID/UMPC that looks a little bit like a smaller version of the Samsung Q1 (a little). There’s a 4.8″ WXGA touch screen (1024×600), 32GB solid state drive (128GB SSD coming soon), 1GB Ram, Windows XP, Bluetooth, WiFi and perhaps most notably, build in SiRF Star III GPS [...]
Here I unbox the Lenovo S10e, the 1.5GB Linux version which at the time of writing is retailing for £259.99 including the 6 cell battery, Bluetooth, Broadcom Wirless and other such lovely things! P
In this video I unbox the Asus Eee Box B202 – the netbook without a screen! This super slim box, which retails at £199 at time of writing from Argos.co.uk, features an Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard disk, 802.11n WiFi and is EXTREMELY small and quiet, with only a 20W power drain! It’s nice… [...]
In this video I unbox the new Samsung NC20 sort-of-netbook! I say sort of netbook because it has a 12″ screen and is £380 at the time of writing! It is powered by the new Via Nano processor, so is an interesting departure from the staple Atom based netbook design. In the video I compare [...]
There’s no denying the popularity of the Net Book form factor at the moment with virtually all laptop manufacturers offering a mini laptop of some kind within their range. We’ve unboxed and reviewed a large number of these in the past from the trend-setting 7″ Asus Eee PC to the more recent 9 and 10″ [...]
The Samsung NC10 set new standards for engineering quality in the netbook market… and here I unbox a white example (of course)! The NC10 is available for purchase from our partners Handtec! P
Small pocket-sized computers running desktop-type applications and with a full suite of connectivity options. The M528 is a MID. Intel seems to be very keen about MIDs at the moment, and it seems that they are the next great thing. Mind you, Nokia has been quietly punting them out for a few years now in [...]
Here’s a demo of the Mugen Power 6600mAh battery running on the HTC Shift… just what it needs to be honest to boost it’s feeble capacity and batter life! P
There are a lot of small form factor laptop and UMPC style devices finding their way on to the market at the moment, each of them hoping to be the next Eee PC. The problem is that many of them are simple copying the Eee PC concept and not putting a great deal of ‘new [...]
There’s a lot crammed in to the 2133, there’s a 120GB hard drive, 1GB RAM and an awesome 1280×768 display that has got to be one of the sharpest TFT’s I have ever seen! The HP 2133 Mini-Note model in this unboxing video came with Linux pre-installed and it the nicest Linux implementation I have [...]
This is a video of me unboxing and firing up HTC’s Shift Windows Mobile / Windows Vista hybrid UMPC. P
Here I unbox an 8GB version of the Eee 701 netbook, imported from Hong Kong no less. Gotta love the white-ness! P
The one that started it all, the good old Asus Eee PC 701! Here I unbox the black model – who would have thought it would start the Netbook craze that it did! P
The original Samsung Q1 was one of the first true UMPC devices to be released, it was an interesting product but was not without its problems, the main one being the input method which used on-screen dial keys which, coupled with the relatively low-resolution display, made the Q1 cumbersome to use. Samsung have addressed these [...]
OQO revealed the Model 01 back in 2005 to great reviews and I can remember lusting after it at the time. I was really quite excited when the postie arrived with the package that contained OQO’s latest model e2, complete with its docking station. The e2 as supplied was almost the top of the range [...]
This was the first time we’d looked at a Sony Ericsson smart device. I know earlier models such as the P900 were popular so it was time to see what all the fuss was about. Alistair reviewed the Sony Ericsson P1i for us in October 2007 – Matt