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Acer Aspire Timeline 3810TG (Core 2 Duo SU9400 Processor 1.4GHz, 4GB RAM)

Review When the first Acer Aspire Timeline series as released in mid-2009, it changed the landscape of portable computing. Sporting the new line of Intel consumer ultra-low-voltage (CULV) processor, the lower cost and thermal signature allowed Acer to produce an impressively slim thin-and-light which ...

Sony Vaio VGN-TX17GP (Pentium M ULV 1.2GHz, 512MB RAM)

Review Less than a year after debuting its Vaio T series ultraportable laptop (and several iterations later), Sony gives its thinnest and lightest model a new look, some new features, and a new name. At S$3,999, the Vaio VGN-TX17GP costs about as much as the previous Vaio VGN-T350 model but adds a...

Sony Vaio VGN-P15G (Intel Atom Z530 Processor 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM)

Review Sony likes to keep its Vaio products aimed at mid- to high-end buyers--much like Apple does--and generally eschews the budget end of the market (although there are a handful of less expensive Vaios we've reviewed favorably). When it comes to Intel-Atom-powered systems, it's no different;...

HP Pavilion dv2 (AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 Processor 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM)

Review When we first saw the 12-inch HP Pavilion dv2 at CES 2009, here's what we noted. At first glance, another glossy HP laptop with an AMD processor may induce yawns, but when we learned this was the first system to use AMD's new Netbook-like Athlon Neo platform, our ears perked up. AMD sees...

Toshiba Portege M900 (Core 2 Duo P8700 Processor 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM)

Review The Portege M900 is the first model in Toshiba's new Signature series. This range (launched concurrently with the Premier series for its Satellite laptops) seeks to bring a touch of class to the design of its business-centric portables. The idea behind this line is that since a significant...

Samsung NC20 (Via U2250 processor 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM)

Review Samsung's NC20 stands out from the crowd in two very important ways. First, it's one of only a handful of 12-inch Netbooks (the best-known example being Dell's Vista-addled Mini 12). Secondly, it's the first laptop we've tested with Via's Nano CPU, intended as an alternative to Intel's popular...