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In any recent laptop (or desktop), the mechanical hard drive is the component with the most detrimental effect on overall performance. This shouldn't be surprising, as hard drive technology has remained more or less the same for decades.Sure, some significant breakthroughs have been made and ...

The Sony VAIO Z series has long been known as a no-compromise laptop in every sense of the word. It's been the king of ultraportables; with RAID 0 SSDs (up to four), the latest and fastest processors and even gaming-capable graphics--all in an exceptionally slim chassis. It has also been (and most ...

Nvidia has just taken the lid of the most powerful mobile GPU to date--the GeForce GTX 580M. The company has also announced that the 17-inch Alienware M17x as well as the 18-inch Alienware M18x will be available with this graphics card in a presumably near future--the M17x with one 580M and the ...

It's been a while since the GT780 was first announced, but now MSI has started to show up for pre-order on eBay and elsewhere. The 780R is the version with dual hard drives in RAID 0 (or SSD/HDD combinaitons,) and the one that seems to become available first. MSI has previously launched the ...

Dell is currently offering a coupon worth $579 (including instant rebates) off the 3D-enabled version of the XPS 17. It's a full-featured 3D laptop with a quad-core Core i7 processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM (expandable to 16GB), a Blu-ray writer, 1TB of hard drive storage spread across two 500GB 7,200rpm ...

Both the 3D and non-3D versions of the brand new 17-inch Asus Republic of Gamers G74SX is now available from several retailers. None of the laptops are exactly cheap, but they come with a fair amount of capable hardware to match the price tag.At this writing you can find a G74SX-A1 for slightly ...

Owners of laptops with AMD Radeon graphics cards might want to take the time to download the latest Catalyst 11.6 driver package, which was just released. The latest graphics driver for the Radeon HD series and now supports the latest processors, or "APUs" in the mobile Llano series with that ...

This short-lived coupon (expires 6/15/2011) is part of Dell's Hot Summer Days promotion. The offer includes a quad-core, 2nd-generation Intel Core i7 running at 2.0GHz/2.9GHz with Turbo Boost. Dell has also thrown 8GB of RAM, a 750GB hard drive and free shipping into the bargain! All upgrade ...

Just like Intel, AMD is combining the processor and graphics core into a single piece of silicon in its latest Fusion platform for laptops. The difference is that AMD can leverage its merger with ATI to bring much better integrated graphics to the table. This is good news for gaming on budget and ...

Expires 6/14/2011. Get an XPS 17 with 8GB of RAM, 750GB hard drive and an Nvidia GeForce GT 550M for just $999! This deal is part of Dell's "Hot Summer Days" event and is therefore only available for a very short duration before the window closes.The system in question is fully configurable, ...