With the recent dearth of full-blown AAA games, we figured it'd be a great idea to take advantage of the free time and play some indie games. One of the games that immediately caught our attention was Monaco: What's Yours is Mine.
Small time mobile phone manufacturers are bringing super cheap Chinese handsets into the market by the week and bigger brands are looking to beat them at their own game.
Here's a quick video review of the HP ElitePad 900. The tablet is based on Windows 8 Pro and retails for roughly Rs.43,500. The dock and the expansion jacket are sold separately.
If you’re out looking for a new smartphone, then there are a couple of pointers you need to have ticked before you can start splurging. These are the bare essential features we feel you must have if you want your handset to be relevant two years from now.
Performance The performance of this laptop cannot be compared to that of mainstream or even entry-level laptops that feature dual-core processors, because, this one has a much weaker processor. On the other hand, it is more powerful than Intel Atom processors that are common to netbooks. So, essentially its performance is closest to that of ultra-portable laptops that feature similar low-voltage processors such as the SU series of Intel Pentium and Celeron CPUs.
As far as applications are concerned, office and mainstream applications, casual Internet surfing, VoIP, emails and similar tasks will sail smoothly. The discrete graphics is an added advantage when using light multimedia. What’s worth mentioning is the loudness and clarity of the built-in speakers. The speaker grill is in front and the sound well-projected, so watching movies or listening to music is a good experience. We weren’t particularly happy with the battery life. On medium load, the laptop offers about 4 hours 40 minutes of runtime, whereas ultra-portable laptops are meant to offer a bit more.
The bottom line For Rs. 29,000, the ThinkPad X100e is more expensive than most netbooks, but, it would be unfair to compare a ThinkPad to a standard run-of-the-mill netbook. Also, if you compare it with other ThinkPads, it indeed is the most affordable, as touted on the manufacturer’s website. A ThinkPad fan who wants an ultra-portable laptop for basic computing on the go, will most likely rule out the netbook segment and go with this new tiny entrant, despite the price difference.
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Windows 8-powered laptops equipped with touchscreens are becoming increasingly common by the day. One such model is the recently launched Asus VivoBook that packs powerful hardware and exudes class. Here's our take on it.
Tablets are becoming fairly common these days. Most people are turning to them for all their Web usage. However, netbooks are still managing to chug along in
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