Qosmio F750 design

The metallic finish, with its blue and purple hues, really does look good. It’s a far cry from other Qosmio system’s we’ve seen previously, such as the Qosmio X770, for example, which has more of a gaming focus. The F750′s lid opens to expose a glossy chassis, a glossy screen, a glossy bezel and a glossy palm rest. Reflections from room lights can be very annoying when they hit this laptop, but especially the screen. You’ll want to leave it at maximum brightness and adjust its angles as you change your viewing position in front of it. The palm rest has a pattern underneath its glossy finish and it features a relatively small (83x44mm) touchpad for such a big notebook.

The keyboard isn’t backlit, which is a drawback if you happen to be used to working in the dark, but the board itself has keys that are soft and responsive. They are flat and very smoothly finished keys, which can sometimes feel slippery and lead to miscues, but overall it’s a good board. It features a dedicated number pad and there is a utility installed that shows which functions the F-keys control when you press the Fn button. Above the keyboard, there are capacitive controls for the volume and Wi-Fi, and they make an annoying beeping sound when pressed.

We found the Synaptics touchpad to be a little unreliable in our tests. It’s a small pad that feels a little rough and it has a light above it that shines annoyingly when the pad is enabled. The pad supports gestures such as two-finger scrolling and three-finger flicking, and these worked well for us. However, the pointer sometimes became erratic and bounced around the screen during general use. This was fixed by restarting the computer and it was a frustrating thing to experience. Because it’s a desktop replacement unit, you’ll want to use a mouse with it anyway.

Qosmio F750 features

Around the edges of the Qosmio F750, you’ll find a usual set of features, perhaps with the exception of the full-sized TV antenna port, which isn’t very common in the laptop fraternity. You get four USB ports, with two located on each side of the unit, but only one of these is USB 3.0. You also get a VGA port, HDMI, headphone and microphone ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port, an SD card slot and a Blu-ray/DVD burner drive. It’s a decent configuration all up, but we wish there were at least two USB 3.0 ports instead of only one — especially because the machine is likely to be deskbound and used as a primary computer in some cases.

We found the wireless networking performance of the Qosmio F750 to be relatively slow thanks to its single-band Atheros AR9002WB-1NG 802.11n Wi-Fi module, which always reported a link speed lower than 90 megabits per second (Mbps) to our router (and sometimes as low as 60Mbps), despite boasting a strong signal strength. You could argue that Wi-Fi on a big unit such as this isn’t that important, but good Wi-Fi would give you the freedom to plonk this machine anywhere in your home without having to worry about wires for reliable data transfers and we think it’s an area that could be improved.

One area in which the Qosmio is better off than most laptops is speaker output. Its Harman Kardon stereo speakers are located above the keyboard and they don’t have a sub-woofer or a fancy equaliser. They provide good loudness and clarity, perhaps enough to fill a decent-sized lounge room, depending on your environment. They lack power in bass department, which is to say if you want a “boom” you’ll have to plug in external speakers. That said, their frequency range is above average compared to most of the laptops we’ve experienced and they make for enjoyable casual listening.

While listening might be enjoyable, viewing the screen can be a little less so. It has a native resolution of 1366×768, which is standard for most laptops on the market and not high enough for a notebook with the specifications of the F750. We’d like to see a higher resolution panel, but also one that has better vertical viewing angles, and which isn’t as susceptible to reflections from room lights. Reflections really made it hard to view photos, videos and live TV unless we were in a dark room. Incidentally, the notebook has a hybrid TV tuner installed, which can tune in to both digital and analogue stations. Using Windows Media Centre, it found all of the digital stations in our area and played them without any difficulties. There is a built-in infrared receiver for a remote control, but our kit didn’t come with one.

Qosmio F750 performance

There is no doubt the Qosmio F750 is powerful enough for most work loads. Its Core i7-2670QM CPU has four cores as well as Hyper-Threading, and it can process up to eight software threads simultaneously. It’s perfect for multitasking, and with a regular frequency of 2.2GHz and a Turbo Boost of 3.1GHz, it has enough speed to make light of tough tasks. Of course, it helps that it also has 16GB of DDR3 SDRAM and a 1TB hard drive with a high data density.

In our Blender 3D rendering test, the Qosmio put up a time of 22sec, which is very fast, while it recorded an expected time of 55sec in our iTunes MP3 encoding test. We couldn’t run our usual AutoGordianKnot DVD-to-Xvid conversion test due to problems with the configuration. In CrystalDiskMark, the hard drive, which has a spin speed of only 5400rpm, recorded a sequential read rate of 104 megabytes per second (MBps) and a write rate of 101MBps. These are excellent results in this test considering the spin speed of the drive; the dense 500GB platters in the hard drive no doubt helped. In our own data copying tests, an average rate of 111MBps was achieved. The more data the drive is packed with though, the slower it will perform.

As far as gaming grunt is concerned, the F750 isn’t powerful enough to entice serious gamers; its GeForce GT 540M provided rates between 20-30 frames per second in Battlefield 3 when it was run at the native 1366×768 resolution of the screen and with auto image detail levels; it recorded a score of 9284 in 3DMark06, which certainly isn’t high enough for a true gaming laptop. It’ll do well when running games at medium settings or lower and can be used for role playing games, racing games, and first-person shooters (if you’re not the competitive type).

While the CPU and graphics are working hard, the fan in the machine will do its best to push all the warm air generated by these components through the vent and heat sink on the left side of the unit. It can get noisy during these times.

Notebook Battery life

The Qosmio actually features switchable graphics, which means it can use integrated Intel graphics when it’s running on Dell inspiron 1525 notebook battery, rather than the more powerful NVIDIA adapter. In our battery test, in which we disable power management, enable Wi-Fi, maximise screen brightness and loop an Xvid-encoded video, the notebook’s 48 Watt-hour Acer As07b31 Notebook Battery lasted 2hr 19min. Toshiba laptops aren’t well known for having stellar battery life, but almost two and a half hours for a 15.6in model with a full allotment of RAM and a Core i7 CPU isn’t terrible, and it’s not like it’s a laptop you’ll want to use far away from a power outlet anyway.

Conclusion

What the Qosmio represents is a good all-round machine, rather than a product that’s dedicated to gamers. It can be used for gaming in a pinch, but it can also be used to view and record TV shows, in addition to being a powerful computer for tasks such as media encoding, video and image editing and, of course, essential office applications. It looks good, albeit with too much glossiness, and its build quality isn’t overly creaky. We just wish its screen was better, that the touchpad was more reliable and that the wireless adapter was of a higher calibre.

The company noted that the message is new to Windows 7, so folks upgrading from XP or Vista may be taken by surprise when they are told their HP nc8230 battery is a paperweight. Of the 20 support inquires related to this message, all of them have turned out to be age-degraded batteries.

As for the sudden loss in Dell inspiron 9400 battery life and wonky performance issues? “We recognize that this has the appearance of Windows 7 ‘causing’ the change in performance, but in reality all Windows 7 did was report what was already the case,” said Windows division president Steven Sinofsky in a battery blog post.

If you’ve experienced the alert first hand, did it disappear after replacing your HP elitebook 8530p battery?

Here’s how to keep that battery charged while on the road.

Accessories

1) Car Charger

This is the most obvious. Still, many people don’t invest in one of these. Maybe car chargers can be a little pricey, but you can buy some cheap ones on any site like batteries-company.com. The payoff is well worth it when you can be assured that your iPhone battery won’t leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere. One of the single most important things you can get if you have an iOS device and a car is a car charger. Do it. This applies 10-fold for those using a device with a tethered jailbreak as powering off will render your device useless until you can plug back into your computer. Shop around sites like Amazon and read some user reviews.

2) Battery Pack

An iPhone battery pack is basically a case with a built-in battery for your iPhone that plugs into the handset’s connector and adds extra hours of battery life. These are obviously a bit pricier than standard cases and a bit bulkier. Recommended if you plan on being away from a power source for a while. The Juice Pack Air by Mophie is an example of a battery pack, but we recommend just shopping around and reading buyer reviews.

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Settings

There are also various settings for prolonging battery life of your iOS devices. Here are a handful that work across iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

1) Quit Background Applications 

Double-click the Home Button to bring up your multitask pane. Hold down one of the icons until they all begin to jiggle. Now, touch the red minus sign to quit all those applications. There are apps like Skype that are particular Dell Latitude D620 Battery hogs as it is perpetually connected so that it may receive calls.

2) Brightness

Settings>Brightness. Adjust your brightness accordingly. If you are out in the sun, you may have to brighten your screen. However, if you are indoors or its darker out, turn down that brightness. That will help save battery power as well.

3) Know Your Wifi 

If you are using an iPad or iPod touch, but know that you are nowhere near a wifi network. Shut wifi off. This will save power as the device will not be searching for an available wifi connection. That said, if you are around a wifi network on an iPad 3G+wifi, turn the wifi on (this applies to the iPhone as well) as using the network is much more battery-friendly than using the 3G connection.

4) Turn off 3G 

If you are on an iPad 3G or on your iPhone, you can turn off 3G. For instance, if you are using your iPad, and you know that you will not be connecting to the internet or App Store, or using any other online features. Simply turn off 3G as swell as wifi. This will save a ton of Acer as07b31 laptop battery.

On the iPhone, you can turn off 3G and go onto Edge. The connection is much slower, and is terrible for practical internet connection, etc. However, it does the job for checking email, text or voice. If all you need to do is make calls while on the road, this solution works perfectly.

Another solution is to turn on Airplane Mode if you are in an area that you know has no coverage. This happens often on road trips. You will drive through a “dead” area. Your phone struggles to find a connection. This only depletes battery life. Turn on Airplane mode to save that energy for later.

5) Turn off Push Notifications  

Turn off push notifications. Those can be done on a per-app basis as well. Most of us don’t need the New York Times or Associated Press mobile app to buzz us every hour to share a breaking story with us. Turn it off.

Keeping Your iOS Device Charged

We can get away with the iPad or iPod touch battery dying on us. It sucks, but it’s not a horrible situation. Being without a phone, however, that is a bad place to be these days. You can’t just stop at a gas station anymore and drop a few quarters in a pay phone. Make sure you keep your phone charged.

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Best budget laptops: Under $500

If you plan on primarily doing e-mail and office tasks and don’t expect to carry around your laptop very often, you should be able to find a machine that suits your needs in this price range: decent battery life, plenty of memory and processor power for all but the most demanding tasks and a hard drive large enough to hold all of your music and photos. Primarily what you sacrifice over the pricier models is style, weight and some advanced options like 3G cellular data.

Samsung NP305V5A-A06US ($499.99)

The 15.6-inch Samsung NP305V5A’s brushed-aluminum-texture finish and sharp styling make it stand out from the usual plasticky look of other budget models. Plus, it’s 1.6Ghz AMD A-Series Quad-Core A6 is by far the most powerful of our picks. Includes 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive. Weighs 5.5 pounds. Price: $499.99.

Verdict: Best combination of style and power

HP Pavilion g4 ($499.99)

This attractive laptop sports a 14-inch display with a wide viewing angle, a comfortable keyboard and good audio. The HP Pavilion g4′s 1.65 GHz AMD Dual-Core E-450 processor is the least powerful of our choices, but the Pavilion g4 is also by far the lightest at 4.6 pounds—perfect for everyday computing and occasional travel. Includes 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive. Price: $499.99.

Verdict: Gets the job done at home or on the road

Dell Inspiron 15 N5040 ($449.99)

The 15.6-inch Dell Inspiron 15 N5040 is in the middle of the pack in terms of processing power, with its 2.53GHz Intel Core i3 processor, and it’s also the heaviest at 6.02 pounds, but it’s a good choice for those that are looking to perform everyday computing tasks at home. And it’s $50 less than our other picks. Includes 3GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive. Price: $449.99.

Verdict: Solid performance at a great price.

Best entry level latops: Under $700

Step up to faster processors and higher-grade materials.

Acer AS5755-6828 ($549.99)

This 15.6-inch machine packs a second generation 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 4 GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive. Acer doesn’t provide an official battery life estimate, but we wouldn’t count on all day performance from this model. That being said, this 14-inch laptop is more powerful than a PC this cheap has any right to. Weighs 5.75 pounds. Price: $549.99

Verdict: Enough power for almost any task at a super price

 Dell Inspiron 14z ($619.99)

Housed in the same classy aluminum housing as the more expensive models, the Dell Inspiron 14z delivers high-performance style and a great 14-inch LED-back display. On the inside, you’ll find entry-level components, like a 2.2 GHz Intel Core i3-2330M processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive. Weighs 4.23 pounds. Price: $619.99

Verdict: The best looking model in this price range and relatively low weight for travel

Gateway ID47H07u ($649.99)

Gateway manages to pack a 14-inch display into an aluminum-alloy 13-inch body, which means an ultra-thin 0.2-inch bezel around the display. Plus you get Intel’s Wireless Display technology for watching your PC content on your TV. The notebook is powered by 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 processor with 4GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive. Weighs 4.63 pounds. Price: $649.99

Verdict: The best combo of looks, performance and weight at this price

Best mid-range laptops: $700-$1,300

You’re getting plenty of power, even for video and gaming, bigger hard drives and solid state drive options.

Asus ZenBook UX31 ($1,149.99)

One of the first ultrabooks to hit the market, the 11.6-inch Asus ZenBook UX31 showcases all that makes this class of computer desirable: an ultrathin body measuring 0.67 inches at its thickest, a 2.42-pound carrying weight, a respectable 1.8-GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM and a speedy 128GB solid state drive. It’s a must-have for anyone who wants portability, power and style. Price: $1,149.99

Verdict: The ultimate in portability and solid state performance

Sony VAIO F Series VPCF234FX/B ($1,218.98)

The Sony VAIO VPCF234FX/B is multimedia powerhouse, with its 2.20GHz Intel Core i7 processor, nVidia GE Force GT 540M discreet graphics card, 6GB of RAM and fast 640GB hard drive. Plus, the 16.4-inch LED-backlit LCD displays a Full HD 1080p image that is crisp and glare-free, thanks to its matte finish. Weighs 6.6 pounds. Price: $1,218.98

Verdict: Serious machine with enough juice for all but the most advanced gamers and video editors

HP Envy 14-2130NR ($949.99)

The Envy 14’s attractive exterior hides a powerful machine driven by a 2.4GHz Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 1GB Radeon HD 6630 graphics card from AMD. It also has a bright 14.5-inch LED-backlit display and 750 GB hard drive. It’s a good buy for a mid-range laptop. Weighs 5.69 pounds. Price: $949.99

Verdict: Best combination of power and price for casual gamers and editing the family videos

Best high end laptops: $1,300 plus

The ultimate in performance and design – the laptops to fill your friends and co-workers with envy.

Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch ($1,709.94)

If you edit a lot of photos or movies, this is the laptop for you. The standard 4 GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive is more than enough for the casual media dabbler. And the 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7 and switchable AMD graphics should blaze through almost any task you throw at it. Turn off the discrete graphics card to get up to 7-hours of life from the non-replaceable battery. At 5.6 pounds the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro is surprisingly light for its size, especially when you consider that the body is made of solid aluminum and not plastic. Price: $1,709.94

Verdict: Simply the best multimedia performance at home or on the road

Asus G74SX-A2 ($1,959.53)

If you’re looking for a powerful gaming machine at a reasonable price, the Asus G74SX-A2 delivers. The 17.3-inch laptop is equipped with a 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, a 3GB Nvidia GTX 560M discrete graphics card, and a 980 GB hard drive—all of which will provide the performance needed for tomorrow’s games. Weighs 9.5 pounds. Price: $1,959.53

Verdict: Hands-down, the best gaming machine for the money.

HP Pavilion m6 comes in the form of a machine with a large display but super-slim in design. The machine packs 15.6-inch diagonal LED backlit high-definition (HD) BrightView display, while special Beats Audio, dual speakers and subwoofer enhances the audio front.

With eight hours of HP probook 4525s battery life these machines are powered by latest Intel and AMD chips.

To keep good company, HP Pavilion dv series machines comes with the refreshed look of the tapered chassis, new metal finish, coupled with a soft-touch panel at the base of the display cover.

However, no worries since the design overhaul has not touched the Beats Audio experience on these devices. Moreover, HP offers adding optional NVIDIA GeForce GPUs for an enhanced graphic experience.

The machines going school also includes redesigned HP Pavilion g6 and g7 which comes with a bowl-shape keyboard deck, textured touchpad and better audio in trendy shades like ruby red, linen white, sparkling black, winter blue and bright purple.

There is no clue on pricing for HP Pavilion m6 which will be available this summer. Pavilion dv4, dv6 and dv7 will be available in the US on June 20 with prices of $549.99, $549.99 and $799.99, respectively while g6 and g7 will come only on July 25 with starting prices of $449.99 and $499.99, respectively.

iPhone 5: Liquidmetal Concept Design Makes Us Wish It Was Real

After various recent rumors indicating that Apple may completely redesign the next-generation iPhone and integrate new materials, a French designer went a little further and came up with an impressive concept design for the much-anticipated iPhone 5, by adding a splash of Liquidmetal.

French designer Antoine Brieux developed a gorgeous concept design, illustrating how the next-generation iPhone could look like. Based on recent reports suggesting that the new iPhone will be thinner and lighter than its predecessors, Brieux created a concept design featuring the iPhone 5 in a Liquidmetal alloy casing.

iPhone 5 LM

Brieux’ design, called the iPhone 5 LM – where, of course, LM stands for Liquidmetal – features a 4.5-inch display, a virtual home button rather than a physical one, and a set of wishful specifications. With no physical home button, the concept design suggests that Apple could increase the aspect ratio of the display to 16:9, thus allowing for greater screen real estate while also maintaining its form factor. In addition, the virtual home button could be removed from the screen if an application needs to make use of that extra space.

According to several reports, Apple is unlikely to ditch the physical home button anytime soon, but Brieux’ concept points out just how much usable screen area the physical button takes. On the other hand, the physical home button on current iPhones is almost like a trademark, making them easily recognizable.

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Wishful Specifications

The French designer’s iPhone 5 LM concept illustrates other rumors as well, such as a quad-core A6 chip, a 10-megapixel camera, and embedded SIM card, and the exquisite Liquidmetal case. Liquidmetal is a trade name for a new metallic alloy that could make tougher and smoother cases. The material is very tough, resilient, scratch and corrosion resistant, which would make it ideal for a top-notch iPhone. Apple has exclusively owned the license to Liquidmetal since last year, but so far it has only used it for the SIM card eject tool.

However, while rumors indicate the next-generation will feature a Liquidmetal case, Dr. Atakan Peker, the inventor of the technology, recently told Business Insider that Apple still has a long way to go before using the alloy in large scale products. According to Peker, the Liquidmetal technology “has yet to be matured both in manufacturing process and application development.”

Antoine Brieux’ concept design is truly inspiring and impressive, but at the end of the day it is only another concept design of what the next-generation iPhone could look like. Apple is not likely to employ the Liquidmetal technology in an iPhone, at least not yet, and a 4.5-inch display seems even less likely, considering the previous generations of iPhone boast of 3.5-inch display. If Apple were, however, to make the next-generation iPhone with a sleek Liquidmetal casing, it would crush all competition and be the undisputed king of high-end smartphones.

Put images of the ill-fated Hewlett-Packard TouchPad out of your memory. The purported design and specifications of the forthcoming HP Slate 8 powered by Windows 8, expected out this fall, points to a robust mobile computing device that will appeal to consumer and business users alike. Our speculation: The Slate 8 will become a part of the accessory options of business users.

Plans for the HP Slate 8 were leaked over the weekend and quickly went viral. The device is as large as the Apple iPad with a 10.1-inch screen, but thinner and lighter. It sports 8 to 10 hours of battery life, and includes both touch and digital pen interfaces. And, for business users, it includes easier integration with Windows-based networks and applications.

All this should make the new tablet attractive to business users, but equally usable by consumers.  While HP is saying nothing publicly about the tablet or its reported features, expectations are for the tablet to hit the market sometime late in the third quarter in time for the holiday shopping season.

HP hasn’t said much about its tablet strategy in the channel. Perhaps that’s part of the hangover from the disastrous tablet experiment known as the HP TouchPad. For that product, HP promised a concerted channel push, hoping partners would drive the WebOS-powered device into the enterprise and steal share away from the vaunted iPad. HP, a channel-centric company, will likely engage partners through the newly formed Printer and Personal System group under channel chief Mike Parrottino.

Around the same time HP releases Slate 8, it will be among the throng of vendors releasing new Intel-powered ultrabooks – thin, lightweight and powerful PCs that share many of the attributes of touch-screen tablets and conventional notebooks. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently dismissed the ultrabook concept as unworkable. He said combining a tablet and notebook would be like “combining a toaster and refrigerator.”

Cook is wrong on so many levels. At the recent Intel Solutions Summit in New Orleans, the chipmaker had several ultrabook concept and working models on display. The idea behind the ultrabook is sound, as it provides options that are currently unavailable in desktops, notebooks or tablets. At the same time, Intel expects a huge uptick in the adoption of All-in-One PCs, desktops that also share touch-screen interfaces in a consolidate form factor.

Since everyone is speculating about the future of tablets, ultrabooks and mobility, let’s take the Slate 8 value proposition to a new level: a mobile accessory. In fact, many mobile devices will become accessories no different than bracelets, rings and watches.

We’re already seeing evidence of this among business users. Increasingly business travels are leaving their notebooks at home in favor of tablets.  If they need just enough access and power to check email and read documents, why carry a 2-pound, inch-thick laptop? When at home or in the office, business and consumer users want power, so they’re increasingly turning to desktops – most notably the AIO variety promoted by Intel. And, of course, users need power and mobility, which will breathe new life into conventional laptops and ultrabooks.

The future of mobility may not be in the displacement of incumbent devices and brands, but rather complementing them by giving users choice. The average user will likely have multiple tablets, computers and mobile devices that match their varying needs. They will pick their computing device off the shelf like they do cufflinks and earrings to match specific circumstances. And they’ll do this thanks, in large part, to Moore’s Law, which is continually increasing processing power and lowering the price of these devices.

For the channel, this is all good news. It means they won’t have to defeat an incumbent vendor or device platform when selling new mobile devices. Rather, they will have to promote integration, portability and ease of use. And, of course, cloud-based storage, applications and file synchronization services will make multiple mobile devices more appealing and provide solution providers with recurring revenue.

The HP Slate 8 will likely find a market ready for its design and functionality. But it will likely take its place alongside multiple other devices in the users’ growing mobility arsenal.

Toshiba‘s slimmest notebook can cost as little as $1595 for an Intel Core i3 model,an Intel Core i3 model, or as much as $3877.50, for an Intel Core i7 model with a 256GB SSD drive. There are models everywhere in between, with many different combinations of processor, storage and built-in 3G.

What they all have in common, though, is extremely light weight — around 1.1KG — and fairly slim profile — 1.7cm at the thinnest point, 2.6cm at the thickest. They all include a DVD writer, which is handy if you tend to attend events with handout CDs. The 13.3″ matte screen has a good resolution of 1366x768px — the same as many 15″ notebooks, so you won’t find the screen cramped. The case is finished in brushed-black.

The Portege R700 also runs full-speed Intel CPUs — not the ultra-low voltage varieties often used in very slim notebooks due to their lower heat output.

In terms of convenience features, there’s an SD camera memory card slot (Toshiba confusingly calls it a “bridge media slot”), an HDMI port for connecting to home or hotel TVs, a VGA port for connecting to meeting room projectors and a webcam for Skype video chats.

Toshiba says the included Toshiba pa3285u-1bas battery will give you eight hours’ runtime and an optional larger notebook battery will give you 12 — but take these figures with a grain of salt; manufacturer battery life claims are often twice as high as real-life.

Toshiba’s warranty is worth mentioning — it comes with three years’ international warranty, including courier pickup/return if you have a problem that needs technician attention within Australia. Toshiba also offers a good range of extra-cost warranties such as Australia/New Zealand on-site laptop batteries repair for up to four years.