It delivers strong performance, lots of durability, an excellent keyboard, an optical drive, and a roomy screen. For road warriors that need all that and then some in an tt485 incredibly thin, light package, the ThinkPad T410s is the one.

It's not all useless stuff, though; we noted Dell's Dock application (which gives you access to e-mail, photo-viewer and music-player apps, a browser, and office applications), as well as McAfee Security Center, Dell's DataSafe Online backup ...

To help with the battery life, the M11x features "switchable graphics," which allows you crank up the 3D power with a pa3634u dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT 335M chip for gaming and other graphics-intensive apps, and then dial back down to the integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD circuitry when you want to conserve power.

The GeForce GT 335M is not one of Nvidia’s high-end graphics processors, but it delivers enough muscle to play most games at ...

The Gateway machine scored 4,838 on this test, and on the 32-bit version, 4,339. To put those digits in perspective, that score handily ThinkPad T42 Battery beats out the same-priced (but smaller, at 15.6 inches) Gateway EC5409u, which managed just 2,738 for the 64-bit test with its 1.3GHz Pentium SU4100 processor.

In sum, it looks like the integrated memory controller and direct link to the GMA 3150 graphics chipset, both features brought by Pine Trail, didn't affect the benchmark-test ...

There's also the requisite 1.3-megapixel Webcam above the screen. One neat companion to the Webcam is MSI's EasyFace software, which lets you log on using your face; it can also log you off HP Pavilion DV1000 Battery automatically if the Webcam doesn't see your face for a set period of time.

The keyboard is unchanged from the original Wind's. At 92 percent of full size, it's comfortable to type on, with the only ...

Technology companies are taking wearable computers seriously. International Business Machines (IBM) recently HP Pavilion DV2000 Battery unveiled a wearable PC in the form of a small box weighing just under 0.5kg that is worn on a belt.

For the next half hour I steadied it with my hands, ducking every time a bit of tree came sailing through the air. If the wind didn't get it, then a ...