Amazon's second most popular laptop is the Acer Aspire AS5251-1805 15.6-Inch Laptop. This $379.00 priced Acer will handle basic functions as well as some games. 15.6” LCD, AMD (2.2 Single Core) processor, 3GB of (DD3) RAM, and 250GB hard drive. The ATI (Radeon HD 4250) graphics card is modern. One of the most notable features is the Multi-Gesture Touchpad that allows you to pinch, flick and swirl while browsing. DVD drive, Wireless N, 3 USB ports. This baby weighs 5.74 pounds and gets about 3.5 hours battery life from the 6 cell battery. Read the rest of this entry »

eMachines eME527-2537. Priced $279.00, this eMachines is a laptop best used for everyday email, internet, and office functions. It features a 15.6" LCD, an Intel Celeron CPU (2.2GHz), 2GB of (DDR3) Memory, and a 160GB hard drive. Your graphics card is the basic playing Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M. Comes with DVD drive, 5-in-1 media card reader, wireless N, and 2 USB ports. Weighs 6 pounds. Overall battery life is 3-4 hours. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems like the most popular gaming laptops are one that have large LCD's. Take a jaunt over Amazon.com and you'll come across the ASUS G Series G73JH-A1, a popular beast of a gaming/media editing machine. Gamers agree that the machine has a lot power to play with; it easily handles any games at the highest settings. The laptop also packs plenty of power to handle intense media editing, do high resolution renderings, and fly with anything else you throw at it. Read the rest of this entry »

The HP Envy 14 is vastly improved from the the original Envy systems that HP introduced back in 2009. What you’ve got here in a 14.5” LCD machine that weighs 5.2 pounds, has a 2.66GHz Intel Core i5-450M processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive. It’s video card is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU with 1GB of VRAM. It’s got two USB ports, an eSATA / USB combo port, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet, and two headphone jacks, one of which double as a mic jack as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s take another dip into the Newegg.com pool just to see what we can see. Just a quick swim on over to their Laptops / Notebook’s section reveals that Newegg’s second most popular laptop is Lenovo's Y550P (324156U). The Y550P has the new Core i7 processor which means that the machine can easily handle gaming, browsing, business applications, and still be ready for more. Read the rest of this entry »

This past month we took a really good look at Best Buy. We realized that Best Buy thrives itself on innovation while Circuit City became lazy in their success. Best Buy continued to steadily grow by expanding into new markets, trying new ideas, listening to the customer, and relentlessly moving onward while Circuit City was transfixed on their past. I found it pretty interesting that Best Buy evaluates their employees from their customers! Best Buy grades their workers solely on what customers think of them. Read the rest of this entry »

All this month we've been looking at Best Buy's laptop and desktop offerings. Our final stop is a quick peek one their Everyday Laptops. Basic laptops are best used for activities like surfing the internet, checking your email, typing documents, and social networking. Best Buy sells about 104 of these type of laptops. At the top of the list is the Acer AS5532-5535, a great value basic laptop priced at $300. Read the rest of this entry »

The MC373LL/A comes with a 15.4" widescreen LCD display (1400 x 900 resolution), a 4 core Intel Core i7 processor (8-way multitasking power), 4GB of DDR3 RAM (expandable up to 8GB), and a 500GB (5400rpm) hard drive. Your graphics card is the extremely nVidia GeForce GT 330M that comes 256MB video memory. Apple includes a iSight webcam, wireless N networking, and built in media reader. The laptop weighs 5.6 pounds, measures 1" thin, and of course comes with the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard preinstalled. Battery life is 4.5 to 5 hours; too bad that spending $2,100 doesn't give you a system like the Toshiba T235-S1352 which has an 8 hour battery life. As mentioned above, the MC373LL/A costs $2,199.99 at Best Buy and is available as a store item. Read the rest of this entry »

Let's look into what Best Buy offers for the business professional. Best Buy's Toshiba T235-S1352 is a great business laptop because it's lightweight, has super long battery life, and is will adequate multitask with its peppy dual core processors. The T235-S1352 is has a 13.3" LCD screen (1366 x 768 resolution) that can play 720p content. The machine comes with a 1.2GHz (Intel U5400) processor that and the Intel HD on-board graphics card; surprisingly it will play full blue ray/high def movies at 1080p. Inside you've got 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a larger 320GB (5400RPM SATA) hard drive. The battery life is now up to 8hours, 33 minutes, a definite improvement from the older generation. Also included is an integrated webcam/microphone set and an HDMI output for transmitting to a compatible HDTV set. Other specs include Multiformat media reader, Wireless N & Wifi, 4 USB ports (3 USB v2.0 ports and 1eSATA/USB combo), 1 VGA port, 1 HDMI output port, 1 headphone out and 1 microphone in jack. It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. The thing weighs 3.9 pounds and is a little over 1-inch thick. Read the rest of this entry »

Best Buy currently has 9 laptops that are designed for gaming. Their top gaming laptop is the Asus G72GX-RBBX05. It's got a large 17.3" LCD widescreen, an (P8700) Intel Core 2 CPU running at 2.53GHz, 6GB of (DDR2) RAM, and a 500GB (540000RPM) hard drive. It's (nVidia GTX 260M 1GB) graphics card has enough power to handle most of today's 3-D games. Everything else that comes with this system is pretty standard: Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW (dual layer) drive, 1.3MP webcame, 8-1 in media reader, wireless N, and gigabit networking. Windows 7 64 Bit Version is your operating system, overall weight is 8.8 pounds. Best Buy indicates that the battery life is 1 hour, 23 minutes...that's pretty piss poor! Read the rest of this entry »

The Asus G73JH-RBBX09 is the one of the top selling gaming laptops at Best Buy. If you're looking for a large screen laptop that has oomph to play any of today's 3-D games this is it. It's got a larger 17.3-inch LCD which everybody seems to love, an ultra powerful quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (720QM), and a ferocious 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Look under the hood at the Graphics card and you'll find the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870. This graphics card is today's most powerful video card for mobile computing. Gamers say it plays Modern Warfare 2 and Crysis on maximum settings "like a hot knife through butter." Also inside is a 1TB hard drive (7200rpm) and Windows 7 (64 Bit Version). The think weighs 7.5 pounds and is 2.2" thin. Unfortunately all this power does come at a price: battery life is just under 2 hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you Craving an all-in-one entertainment notebook? HP's DV6-2162NR won't disappoint the movie loving multimedia enthusiast. Let's admit that at 6.34 pounds it's a little on the heavy side, but it makes up for that by packing some serious CPU firepower! The combination of the Intel’s i3-350M processor (2.26GHz), 4GB of lightning fast (DDR3) memory, and integrated video (1696MB) produce gorgeously vivid blue ray movies. The 15.6" inch screen is also fabulous! HP has also rolled out the carpet with a large 500GB (7200 rpm) hard drive. Of course you'll find Wireless N, plenteous ports, and Windows 7. The HP DV6-2162NR going for $799.99 at Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »