The GT is another beast that doesn't want to be your travel companion. It's slathered in orange lights and big vents that look angry enough to tear your face off if you looked at it the wrong way. The Intel Core i7 processor and 8GB of RAM give an astounding performance and the dedicated graphics card produced one of the best results we've ever seen on a laptop.
Whether you're wanting to chill back with a movie on the high-definition screen or practise your head shots in Call of Duty , the MSI GT will be raring to go. Samsung's Series 9 may have been slightly overshadowed by the new ultrabooks, but it's still an incredibly slim -- and utterly gorgeous -- piece of kit. It's covered in a metal called duralumin, which is the same stuff they make fighter jets from.
You won't be able to launch an attack on your mates with it, but it's certainly powerful enough for you to Photoshop them into some compromising scenarios. Take that, friends. The Aspire Ethos comes with the sort of sharp good looks that wouldn't look out of place in a Bond movie. It's got a sleek black metal chassis that's easily slender enough to slide into a stylish bag.
What's more, it comes with some burly specifications under the hood. Like any good secret agent, there's a little trick up its sleeve; flick a switch and the trackpad pops out to use as a neat media remote for when you can't be bothered getting up to put the next film on. It's the perfect laptop if you're terrified of physical exertion. The late, great Steve Jobs made quite a splash on the laptop world when he unveiled the seriously slim Air from an envelope.
The current inch Air retains the same ultra-portable dimensions, with the front end tapering down to a mere 7mm. The casing is machined from a single piece of metal, which means it's extremely sturdy. It can be specced-up to include a Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a super-fast GB solid state disk drive, making it the ideal companion for the wealthy worker on the go.
The Asus G53 is a laptop for hardcore gamers seeking to buy a performance-oriented system at a decent price. The system is a bit budgeting flexible in that you may choose alternative hardware the site lets you change the CPU, OS, memory, HDD, and other hardware. Using these specs, if we look at our Battlefield 3 performance chart , this system should be able to run Battlefield 3 on around medium to high settings.
It should run newer games like a champ. The above specs are the best hardware upgrades that can be chosen over at the ASUS website for this particular model.
Though not exactly the best looking laptops out there, the Origin EON17's are entirely gaming-based machines. If you want a laptop with the absolute best hardware and performance, look no further. The MacBook Pro's GeekBench score of 6, is a 35 percent increase over the previous model 4, , and more than double the inch MacBook Air, whose 1. Running Snow Leopard, the inch MacBook Pro booted in a quick 41 seconds, 24 seconds faster than the current category average, which consists mostly of Windows PCs.
Still, the inch MacBook Air starts up in less than 15 seconds, thanks to its flash memory. The GB, 5,rpm hard drive achieved a file transfer speed of The average thin-and-light takes about 15 seconds longer to complete this task. The result was a 3DMark06 score of 4,, which is points lower than last year's model.
Even so, the MBP's showing is well above the current thin-and-light average of 3, You'll want to step up to the inch MacBook Pro if you want serious graphics muscle. Similarly, this MacBook Pro inch couldn't match its predecessor on our gaming tests, with the notebook managing 21 fps playing Far Cry 2 at optimal settings and at x resolution, where last year's MBP scored 47 fps.
Things got worse at native resolution x with the new inch MacBook coughing up just 13 fps, less than the previous MacBook Pro's 19 fps.
By comparison, the Asus U33JC scored 22 fps at x The HP Envy 14 scored 75 fps at x and 27 fps at a higher x native resolution. Results improved in World of Warcraft , with the MacBook Pro achieving a fair 74 fps at x while in autodetect mode. The system squeezed out 28 fps with all the game's effects set to maximum. Both scores are somewhat below the category averages With its discrete graphics, the previous MacBook Pro inch notched a higher fps and 50 fps, respectively, although to be fair, WOW has become more graphically demanding with its latest update.
The inch MacBook Air, which also has Nvidia M graphics, averaged 17 fps at its native resolution and max settings. We were very pleased when last year's inch MacBook Pro achieved a very long runtime of , but the new version lasts even longer on a charge. That's about three and a half hours longer than the current thin-and-light average, and beats the Asus U36Jc , Alienware M11x , and HP Envy 14 It also outperforms Apple's stated battery life of 7 hours.
It even bested the inch MacBook Air by two hours. Long battery life is even more of a positive considering you can't swap out a new battery on the fly as you can with most other laptops. The second option is to kick battery life to the curb and simply go for as much GPU power as you can get.
The third option is to get all of the above, but while in theory a manufacturer could provide Optimus while still using a faster GPU and not charge a price premium, that's not happening right now. Yes, I'm greedy! Our preference is to go with one of these two notebooks instead or save up for the Alienware M17x that we'll cover on the next page.
We reviewed a configuration similar to that with the Mythlogic Pollux , and while the keyboard layout still irks me, the display is enough to make me think twice. And as a third and final option, here's a familiar refrain. Lenovo has their X line on sale as well, and you once again get an awesome combination of build quality and features.
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