We’ve previously looked at a laptop from Lenovo’s Essential G series (the G570), and now it’s time to check out the Essential B series. If you’re unclear on the difference, Lenovo helpfully offers that the B series consists of “budget laptops for working at home or at the office,” while the G series is described [...]

Business laptops used to be business laptops and consumer laptops consumer–and never the two did meet–but, things have changed over the past few years. Mainly, that’s attributable to companies like Apple boldly offering a single line of pro/consumer laptops, but other companies have gotten into the mix with business laptops that carry a crossover “regular [...]

Today has been a long time in coming; we first heard about Llano way back in 2008, but even then the target date was 2011. Even so, AMD has been hurting for a compelling mobile platform since… well, since ever. Even in the glory days of the K8 platforms, AMD never had a great mobile [...]

When it comes to spending $500 on a laptop, beggars can’t be choosers. One of the best things about the Inspiron 15R, Dell’s 2011 update to its budget and midrange consumer laptop line, is that it starts at an aggressive price while still offering Intel’s second-generation Core i-series processors. At $499, the new Inspiron 15R [...]

In recent years the HP EliteBooks have distinguished themselves in the business world thanks to an exterior design featuring brushed-metal cladding and an interior chassis made of durable magnesium alloy. In short, the EliteBooks look cool and are built tough. The latest generation of HP EliteBooks takes that heritage a few steps further with what [...]

The biggest story in laptops over the past few years has been the incredibly popular Netbook. These 10- and 11-inch (and originally 7- and 9-inch) laptops came out of nowhere to capture the attention of a public tired of paying for too much computing power. After a couple of good years, however, Netbooks are being [...]