Dell Latitude E4300 Review

The Dell Latitude E4300 is one of the newest laptops by Dell in the Latitude range and is almost ultraportable. The Latitude series has been a high performance, high reliability business series aimed at those who want something better than Dell’s Vostro series of business notebooks. The Dell Latitude E4300 is one of the most portable 13 inchers out there. It has the trademark Latitude quality and features a nice design and build quality. Reliability has been Dell Latitude’s middle name and the E4300 completely adheres to that. A Latitude can last about 3-4 years easily and are known to be the most durable among notebooks. Also most business customers generally need portability with long endurance and reliability, all of which the Latitude series offers. Dell also offers superb customer care with the Latitude series which satisfies most customers.

In this review, we check out the Dell Latitude E4300 in detail and see whether it has the famed Latitude blood running through its system buses. We also see how it stacks up against its competitors - the Lenovo X300, The Sony Z series and the Macbook Air.

Dell Latitude E4300 Specs:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SP9400 at 2.40 GHz with 6 MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB
• Display: 13.3 inch WXGA (1280 x 800 pixels) LED Backlit Matte Display
• Memory: 4 GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM
• Hard Drive: 80GB 7200 RPM HDD
• Optical Drive: 8X DVD+RW
• Graphics: Intel GMA X4500 MHD
• Operating System: Windows Vista Business
• Other Features: ExpressCard slot, WebCam, Microphone
• Battery: 56 Whr, 6 cell battery

Toshiba Qosmio More than a laptop

An extraordinary family of laptops with a―well, far-from-ordinary name. Pronounced “KOZ-me-o,” these amazing machines are designed to be an exciting epicenter for all the entertainment you love, from non-stop gaming action to feature films, home movies, photos, and your favorite songs. Brace yourself. When it comes to fun our new Qosmio notebooks are way off the Richter scale.

When it comes to multimedia our Qosmio brand rules. That includes our 18.4” G55 with an amazing Toshiba Quad Core HD Processor for HD video processing, our 17” diagonal screen gaming dynamo, the X305, with its premier graphics system, all the way to our mobile 15.4” diagonal screen F55 laptop with built-in Garmin® GPS. Whichever you choose, thanks to stunning TruBrite® display technology and other high-end features, you’re in for some serious thrills. Hail, Qosmio!

Wherever you go, bring nothing less than your A-game. Because our new Qosmio X305 notebooks now offer powerful NVIDIA® graphics systems with up to an amazing 1GB of discrete graphics memory to put your skill―and your very nerve―to the ultimate test. You heard us right. That’s up to one full 1GB!

ownload your favorite music, build special playlists, then sit back and get ready. Up to four bass reflex stereo speakers and a sub-woofer on these Qosmio laptops will envelop you in a full, rich blanket of sound, delivering brighter highs and more luxurious lows. Where’s the sweet spot? Right where you are.

Super-size your entertainment most anywhere. It’s easy with new Toshiba REGZA-Link® (HDMI-CEC) technology on the Qosmio series. Now you can blast spectacular high-def pictures and magnificent 5.1 virtual surround sound through a home theater system, and run all the components using a single remote control. Now how cool is that? And how totally convenient too!

Toshiba Satellite E105's Dull 'Silver' Finish

Toshiba's new 14.1-inch laptop, the Satellite E105, has earned the company more green laurels and a Silver classification from the Green Electronics Council's EPEAT program. That sounds great, but when you look closely, Silver has a dull finish.

Last year, EPEAT (the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) gave the Toshiba Portégé R500 a Gold ranking. So, what stopped the Satellite E105 from coming home with the Gold? Lead. And mercury. Toshiba, like many computer manufacturers, hasn't yet eliminated the intentional addition of the two toxins in manufacturing its laptops. Toshiba also failed to use any renewable or bio-based plastics material (though EPEAT did give it credit for declaring this deficit).

Also to its credit -- both from EPEAT and environmentalists at large -- Toshiba provides a take-back service for its laptops and its rechargeable battery pack. It's called the Toshiba Free Electronic Program and lets you recycle your old electronics regardless of the brand and at no cost to you. Toshiba also provides the shipping label. (Dell, to its credit, had been on the vanguard of such consumer- and eco-friendly measures).

Toshiba deservedly boasts that its products are compatible with two world-recognized directives:WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment), which protects the environment by promoting the reuse, recycling, and recovery of electronic materials; and RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substance Standard), which seeks to reduce the use of manufacturing substances that harm human health or the environment. "The result? We've kept tons of toxic chemicals and other substances out of the ecosystem," Toshiba notes in its annual corporate social responsibility report. Those efforts include recovering and recycling tin used in manufacturing the Portégé R500 series at its Toshiba Information Equipment (Hangzhou) plant in China.

But given the tons of Toshiba-labeled plastics that are never recovered and end up in trash heaps around the globe, I encourage Toshiba to again go for the Gold.

Apple Becomes No. 2 Smartphone

Apple’s popular iPhone has elbowed its way past RIM’s BlackBerry to claim the No. 2 spot in the global smartphone market in the third quarter, reports vnunet.com

According to figures from research firm Canalys, overall smartphone shipments increased 28 percent over the same period a year ago.

Apple shipped nearly 7 million devices, taking 17.3 percent of the market. Still, shipments by No. 3 RIM grew more than 80 percent, giving it 15.2 percent market share. Nokia retains in the global crown,  though its shipments decreased slightly to 15 million units and a 38.4 percent market share.

in the U.S. overall mobile phone market, Samsung toppled Motorola for the top spot with phones that do much that the iPhone does, according to figures by research firm Strategy Analytics.

Bloomberg reports South Korea’s Samsung nabbed 22.4 percent of the U.S. market, up from 17.9 percent a year ago. Motorola, No. 4 in the global market, lost share from 32.7 percent a year ago to 21.1 percent. Analysts say it needs to add more smartphones to its lineup.

3G Spectrum Lisence is planned to be allocated n India

After a long wait, the Indian government has decided that it will auction 3G spectrum, and will allow foreign players to participate in the bidding. The spectrum is going to be released in the 2100 MHz band, which would make it compatible with rest of the world, barring a few countries such as the U.S.

Here are some specifics:

Winners will be required to pay 0.5 percent of total adjusted gross revenue to the state on an annual basis for the first three years of operation, rising to 1 percent thereafter.

Winners will not be allowed to trade or resell the spectrum and they will not be allowed to merge in the first five years after the grant.

About 30MHz of spectrum will be sold in total.

India will also auction licenses for broadband wireless (WiMAX) services, with the reserve price fixed at 25 percent of the amount for 3G spectrum.

The spectrum is going to be plentiful; our sources say that it will be enough to accommodate six carriers. The carriers we expect will make it to the finish line include the current leader, Bharti Airtel; Idea Telecom; Reliance and Vodafone (VOD). The two international cell phone companies likely to win the spectrum bid include AT&T (T) and Sistema.

If the rollout of voice services over past decade is any indication, this is a big opportunity for equipment makers. Ericsson (ERICY) and Nokia (NOK) have done well in India, and there is little reason why the situation would change, though one suspects the Chinese equipment vendors are going to act as deflationary counterweights to their Western counterparts.

The 3G services in India will eventually have to compete with WiMAX, which is being seen as the wireless broadband technology of choice by lawmakers. More importantly, this auction is a way for the Indian government to keep the telecom sector specifically and the economy overall growing at a healthy clip. India’s economy was catalyzed by telecom and call center businesses, then spread to other sectors.

New Opera 9.5 Is Here Too!

I’ve just upgrade my Opera web browser. What about you? In fact, Opera 9.5 was released on June 12, 2008, a few days before the release of Firefox 3.

Within the first 5 days of this new version available, Opera 9.5 has received more than 4.7 million downloads. Pretty impressive I would say, but it’s just about half of the download total Firefox 3 received in 1 single day! The total download for Firefox is now surpassing 11 millions downloads worldwide.

Anyway, let’s glance through what new features we can get in Opera 9.5 :-

Sharp, new look and feel
Quick Find - Feature similar to Firefox3’s Smart Location Bar
Speed Dial - 9 visual bookmarks to your most used Web sites
Opera Link - synchronized between any Opera 9.5 desktop browser and Opera Mini
Fraud Protection
Anti-Malware

love Opera too and usually I will switch in between Firefox and Opera while surfing. Both web browsers are great, no doubt about it. Now the question is since both Internet Explorer’s competitors already released their latest versions respectively, when do we see the next major version release of Internet Explorer (IE)?

love Opera too and usually I will switch in between Firefox and Opera while surfing. Both web browsers are great, no doubt about it. Now the question is since both Internet Explorer’s competitors already released their latest versions respectively, when do we see the next major version release of Internet Explorer (IE)?

Google Chrome Web Browser Brief Review

In case you still have not noticed, Google had entered the web browser market by releasing their first ever web browser, Google Chrome, yesterday.

I’m always excited whenever Google launches any software, therefore I’ve installed Google Chrome immediately after reading this fascinating news yesterday even though the software is still under Beta version.

Well, what makes Google Chrome different from other web browsers?Let me list out Google Chrome’s features that other traditional browsers don’t have :-

1. Ability to process each browsing tab on its own

Such feature could significantly prevent one tab from crashing another. For browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox, there is a tendency the whole browser will crash just because of one memory-hogging bug on one website. You won’t see such crashing happens to Google Chrome. In fact, you can even use its own built-in Task Manager to kill the misbehaving tab individually when you need to.

2. Better memory management

When a browsing tab is closed in Google Chrome, the whole process is ended. As simple as that! There won’t be any used memory left uncollected by the Operating System. In other words, no memory will be wasted when you run Google Chrome.

3. Incognito Browsing

This is another cool feature that I love.While you are in incognito browsing mode, websites that you surf or files downloaded won’t be recorded in your browsing and download histories. Besides, all new cookies will be deleted the incognito window is closed.

4. Create Application Shortcut

No, not create an application shortcut of Google Chrome in your Windows.
In Google Chrome, there is a feature where you can create a shortcut of a website and save it to either Desktop, Start Menu and Quick Launch Bar. Yes, only 3 locations available at the moment. These shortcuts will run Google Chrome and open the website, even Google Chrome is not the default web browser.

Here are all 10 main features of Google Chrome :-