Eurocom D901C Phantom-x

Eurocom D901C Phantom-X Review
by Nate Ralph, PC World
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Feb 5 - When it comes to the desktop replacement category of laptop PCs, users want the power and utility of a full-fledged computing rig without the hassle of being chained to a particular desk. Eurocom obliges with the D901C Phantom-X, a boxy behemoth that makes a few questionable compromises to deliver potent performance in a (theoretically) portable package.

Lenovo Thinkpad W700

Lenovo ThinkPad W700: The Graphic Artist's Notebook Review
by Alan Stafford, PC World
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Dec 13, 2008 - Can't decide between a desktop PC and a laptop? How about a workstation and a laptop? Lenovo's ThinkPad W700 desktop replacement (and desktop-size) laptop incorporates many of the latest mobile workstation features while also packing in a few unusual--and very welcome--goodies for the graphic artist or CAD designer.

Lenovo Thinkpad X200

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Ultraportable Laptop Review
by Carla Thornton
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Aug 6, 2008 - Equipped with the new Centrino 2 processor, Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 looks a mild-mannered ultraportable, and yet it can leap tall workloads in a single bound. Its battery life is phenomenal, and the keyboard is huge. In short, this is a much better notebook than the ThinkPad X61, which it replaces, and a surefire winner for on-the-run execs.

Because it bears a lower model number, you might imagine that this a less-powerful version of the ThinkPad X300, but the X200 actually has a more recent processor. The X300 has a 13.3-inch display, however, while the X200 has a 12.1-inch screen. Ah, but what you'll see when you fire this baby up!
At just under 3 pounds with its lightest battery installed, the X200 weighs a few ounces less than the ThinkPad X61, despite offering the same 12.1-inch wide screen and a bigger keyboard. The bright little screen has an easy-to-read 1280-by-800-pixel resolution, making it quite comfortable for work on the go. And the built-in Webcam keeps you in visual touch with your colleagues.

Toshiba Satellite A205-S6808 Notebook

Multitask and Not Bog Down
The more memory a PC has, the faster your programs run and the more windows you can work in simultaneously. Equipped with memory between 1GB and 3GB, this laptop should be able to handle just about any task you can throw at it without bogging down too much. For instance, if you're a multitasker and you'd like to burn a music CD in one window while watching your favorite DVD movie (for the umpteenth time) in another--while flipping between your inbox and your browser to work on your blog during the movie's boring parts--this laptop can manage it all without a hiccup.
Suited for Commuting and Other Short Trips
Because of its midsize screen and other middle-of-the-road characteristics, this notebook qualifies as an all-purpose portable. Though it might not have the biggest hard drive or all the latest card slots, its features--and accordingly, its price--are a good fit for most people who need to get work done in mainstream applications. On this laptop, you'll be able to compute comfortably in word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail, and browser applications, and enjoy music or a DVD movie with headphones. This laptop, lighter and easier to carry than a desktop replacement, is also a better choice for commuting and other short trips.

Micro Express JHL9050

The JHL9050 laptop might not be much to look at, but Micro Express once again delivers speed at a reasonable price.
Micro Express has done it again. Following speed demons such as the JFL9226 and the IFL9025, the JHL9050 provides power and performance in spades. If only the company could iron out the lingering design faux pas, there'd be little to stop this unassuming $1199 all-purpose laptop from climbing to the top of the budget-notebook hill.

The JHL9050 comes equipped with Windows Vista Business; it's built for productivity, too, with 3GB of RAM and Intel's Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz T9550 processor. Impressive hardware begets impressive WorldBench 6 scores: It earned a mark of 110 during our litany of tests. In battery-life tests, it lasted 3 hours, 23 minutes--about the average for all-purpose laptops we've played with in the labs.

Polywell Poly X4800-EXTREME

Expensive desktop provides knock-your-socks-off performance and lots of rear-port connectivity.
Polywell certainly named this power desktop computer correctly. Its 3.2-GHz Core 2 X9770 CPU is Intel's current state-of-the-art Extreme (overclockable) chip, which means that this is an extremely fast desktop. At $4799 (as of August 8, 2008), it's also extremely expensive. Then again, no one ever said state-of-the-art would be cheap; the X9770 CPU alone costs nearly $1500; the equally fresh-from-the-mint MSI nVidia GeForce GTX280 graphics card, about $500; and the 4GB of DDR3 1600 memory goes for nearly as much. But the steep cash outlay that's called for buys you a knock-your-socks-off WorldBench 6 score of 141, as well as a gaming experience of 207 to 266 frames per second. Extremely fast indeed.

Part of the X4800-Extreme's excellent performance is due to a hard-drive setup we're beginning to see often on the power chart--pairs of 10,000-rpm, 300GB Western Digital WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration. Not only are these 2.5-inch models mounted on 3.5-inch adapter sleds (as Western Digital calls them), they're energy-efficient. The sleds function as giant heat sinks that work so well that the drives are nearly cool to the touch even when in heavy use.
The X4800-Extreme is built around an extremely capable Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 motherboard with the most comprehensive array of rear-panel connections that I've ever seen in a PC. Besides a whopping eight USB 2.0 ports, the machine has both normal and 4-pin (mini) FireWire ports, optical and coaxial S/PDIF audio-out, six analog audio (7.1), and two gigabit ethernet ports. It also has motherboard headers for a pair of 2-port eSATA rear-slot breakout panels.

Aeoncraft AEON-8010

This high-powered system offers impressive graphics but a strange case design.
If you're on the prowl for a superfast PC, check out iBuyPower's new luxury brand, Aeoncraft. We tested Aeoncraft's Aeon-8010, which delivers the same hardware and superlative performance of a $5000-plus PC at the relatively reasonable price of $3595 (as of 3/23/06).

Our test unit owes its first-rate performance scores in part to AMD's dual-core, 2.6-GHz Athlon 64 X2 FX-60 processor and 2GB of DDR400 SDRAM. With this configuration, the system posted a score of 141 on PC World's WorldBench 5 tests--matching the second-fastest score we've recorded thus far and missing the top mark by a single point. (Xi Computer's MTower 64 AGL-SLI scored 142.)
The unit's graphics test results were also impressive thanks to ATI's top-of-the-line graphics card, the Radeon X1900 XTX with 512MB of DDR3 on-board RAM. With a frame rate score of 169 on our Return to Castle Wolfenstein gaming test at 1024-by-768-pixel resolution and 16-bit color, the Aeon-8010 ties for the highest score among our currently tested systems (as of 4/12/06). Not surprisingly, informal game play on Doom 3 was very smooth.