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Acer TravelMate 5720

Posted 06/24/2008 at 4:14pm | by David Murphy

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With a 15.4-inch screen, Acer’s TravelMate 5720 skirts the edge of what qualifies as a mainstream notebook. But at 7.5 lbs. of carry weight, it’s still pleasantly portable for a device that offers respectable multimedia and gaming functionality with a good-size battery.

Check out our full review of this jackrabbit-of-all-trades laptop after the jump.

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Asus F8Sn

Posted 06/24/2008 at 3:37pm | by David Murphy

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Asus has gambled the farm that the fancy graphics offering—an Nvidia 9500M GS videocard with 512MB of onboard memory—in its F8Sn notebook will be enough to eclipse the machine’s myriad shortcomings. Sadly, it isn’t.

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Posted 06/24/2008 at 1:55pm | by David Murphy

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Apple’s little white wonder of a MacBook excels against its PC counterparts, but it’s no Gandalf. As expected, gaming is this laptop’s weakest link. And even complex multimedia tasks can cause the MacBook’s magic to wither.

Still, in most applications, the Vista-booting MacBook performed admirably. Find out how admirably after the jump.

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