Sunday, October 2, 2011


Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 420s

The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s is a business laptop with a design that adds to the style quotient of it's predecessors, but still continues in the ThinkPad legacy of having a solid build quality.

Pros:

  • Good Solid Build
  • Good keyboard and responsive clickpad
  • Clean design
  • Handy software bundle

Cons:

  • Non-removable battery
  • No USB 3.0
  • The screen could have been better

Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG


The Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG sports a "unique" look and comes with host of "cool" features such as a full HD screen, translucent plastic build, and backlit keyboard. Even at its asking price, it's a good choice for meeting your multimedia needs.

Pros:

  • Full-HD (1920x1080) screen
  • Good build quality
  • Very distinctive design
  • Handy features such as "Quick Web access"
  • Good backlit keyboard

Cons:

  • "Vibrant" colour might not be to everyone's liking
  • Tedious approach to manually choosing graphics options for individual programs
  • Comparatively low battery life

Acer Aspire 5755G


What really differentiates the Acer Aspire 5755G from the competition, apart from it's new design, is it's GeForce GT 540 M dedicated graphics card with 2GB RAM. In addition, having a Sandy Bridge Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and 750 GB of hard disk space and delivering a very good performance for its asking price, it is a good choice for home multimedia requirements.

Pros:

  • Very good hardware configuration
  • Good audio
  • Switchable NVIDIA Optimus graphics
  • USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 3.0

Cons:

  • Ordinary build quality

Acer Aspire 5742

The 15-inch Acer Aspire 5742 laptop offers very good value for money for a budget consumer. The laptop offers decent performance, battery life, and is a very good contender for a basic home laptop around Rs. 30,000.

Pros:

  • Good looks, mesh pattern feels nice
  • Lighter than regular 15-inch laptops
  • Keyboard has dedicated number pad
  • 500GB of storage space
  • Better-than-average battery life

Cons:

  • No Windows OS
  • Single-strip mouse button

Acer Aspire 4253


The 14-inch Acer Aspire 4253 laptop features a dual-core Zacate E350 1.6-GHz APU with onboard AMD Radeon 6310 graphics. It walks a fine line between performance and battery life, at an attractive price. Definitely worth considering.

Pros:

  • Onboard DirectX 11-enabled GPU
  • 500GB hard drive
  • Matte finish all around
  • Full-HD 1080p video playback
  • 64-bit Windows 7 Home Basic OS
  • Better-than-average battery life

Cons:

  • Performance isn't great
  • Dull looks

Lenovo IdeaPad Z460

The new Lenovo IdeaPad Z460 is a trendy-looking 14-inch laptop with a great keyboard-touchpad combo and feature set. Buy this laptop if you want a stylish laptop under Rs. 40,000.

Pros:

  • Trendy, smart looking laptop
  • Metal finish around the keyboard, palmrest
  • Excellent keyboard, touchpad
  • Great feature set: HDMI + eSATA
  • Useful proprietary software

Cons:

  • Only 2GB of RAM

Dell Inspiron 15R

The new Dell Inspiron 15R sports significant improvements over the older model, both in terms of look and feel and overall performance.

Pros:

  • Good looks
  • Full-sized keyboard
  • Decent performance
  • Full-HD playback support
  • HDMI Port

Cons:

  • No Gigabit Ethernet

HP G42-356TU

The HP G42-256TU is a compact, lightweight 14-inch laptop for budget-conscious buyers. It offers more RAM and hard drive space than most of its competitors, for its price.

Pros:

  • Non-glossy finish
  • Nice design pattern
  • Greater RAM, hard drive space
  • Performs well
  • Crisp, clear onboard audio

Cons:

  • Touchpad merges into palmrest
  • No Gigabit Ethernet

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