New 2011 Macbook Pro Specs - Leaked

The new specifications for Macbook pro have been leaked. Only by a matter of hours but its all good fun.

Check out the leaked macbook pro specs.

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Sony Vaio VPCCA1S1E landing at a space station near you.

If you check the spec on the new range of Sony Vaio C laptops, specifically the Sony Vaio VPCCA1S1E then they look quite interesting, but not alot more than that.

They will feature an Intel i5 Sandy Bridge CPU and a new 6400 series ATI (AMD) Raedon HD GPU. But what is really special about the Sony Vaio VPCCA1S1E is its looks.

They are luminous. Yep that's right, luminous and also feature a translucency effect on the lids. Have a look at the gallery of images below.



The Sony Vaio VPCCA1S1E also comes in slightly more sensible White and black as well. For a bit more information, review and pictures visit the review on Which-Laptop.com.

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Intel i5-2410m CPU

The Intel i5-2410m CPU is one of the new generation CPU's for 2011. They feature significant and exciting improvements over the previous generation of i5. To find out the details have a look at the Which-Laptop.com ratings and the manufacturers specifications. Damn I can feel the need to trade my 3 month old laptop in already!

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ATI Radeon HD 6470m

If you want the technical details of the AMD Radeon HD 6470m then read on or for a plain English analysis read the review of the ATI Radeon HD 6470m.

• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
  • 160 Stream Processing Units
  • 8 Texture Units
  • 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 4 Color ROP Units
• GDDR5/DDR3 memory interface
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• “Eye-Definition” graphics
  • DirectX® 11 support
    • Shader Model 5.0
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Programmable hardware tessellation unit
    • Accelerated multi-threading
    • HDR texture compression
    • Order-independent transparency
  • OpenGL 4.1 support
  • Image quality enhancement technology
    • Up to 12x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
    • Adaptive anti-aliasing
    • Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA)
    • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
    • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology¹
  • Support for up to 4 simultaneous displays
    • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
• AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration²
  • AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing technology³
    • OpenCL^TM 1.1 support¹⁴
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^4,5
  • UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
    • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
    • VC-1
    • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
    • Multi-View Codec (MVC)⁶
    • MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid)
    • Adobe Flash⁷
  • Enhanced video quality features
    • Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
    • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
    • Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
    • Independent video gamma control
    • Dynamic video range control
  • Dual-stream 1080p playback support^9,10
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
• AMD HD3D technology¹¹
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Blu-ray 3D support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming
  • 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP¹²
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
  • DisplayPort 1.2
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
  • HDMI™ 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200¹³
  • VGA
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536¹³
• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI™ or DisplayPort with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology³
  • Dynamic power management with low power idle state
• AMD Catalyst™ software and HD video configuration software
  • Unified graphics display drivers
    • Certified for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center™
    • Software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing special features of AMD Radeon products

Performance Specifications

• Engine clock speed: 480-800 MHz
• Processing power (single precision): 153-256 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 120-200M polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 15.36-25.6 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 3.84-6.4 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 1.92-3.2 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 7.68-12.8 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 800-900 MHz GDDR5 or DDR3
• Memory data rate: 3.2 Gbps GDDR5 or 1.6-1.8 Gbps DDR3
• Memory bandwidth: 25.6 GB/sec (GDDR5) or 12.8-14.4 GB/sec (DDR3)

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Top ten desktop replacement laptops

Have you ever wondered what the best laptop for you is. If you have had to choose one recently you might remember it was a fairly overwhelming task.

Of course it all depends what you want your new laptop to be able to do. Which-Laptop.com has published a top 10 of the best desktop replacement laptops. Desktop replacement is a term used by many retailers, manufacturers and reviewers to refer to a laptop that can do just about anything a desktop can - well duh! A typical reason to buy a 'desktop replacement laptop' might be if it is going to be used by the whole family.

Likely requirements would be enough storage for multiple users, significant but not over the top processing power. Lots of connection options for the array of different devices that a typical family would use and more besides.

The Which-Laptop.com top ten takes into account all these requirements when producing its top ten desktop replacement laptops.

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Toshiba nb505-n508b netbook review

The NB505-N508BL netbook isn't laden with features. For example there is no Bluetooth, HDMI, its only a 3 in 1 media card reader and there is no web cam. But does that matter? Well if you want a web cam etc. then clearly it does. But if you don't then what your left with is done very nicely.

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Laptop reviews by real people

OK this is a bit sad but I am quite excited that Which Laptop has received its first ever laptop user review in the forum. Thanks to Egyptian Daddy.

Review of the Qosmio X500-149.

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Intel Atom N455 laptop CPU

The Intel N455 is appearing in some really nicely specified netbooks. It is keenly priced to the laptop manufacturers and it seems, for once that value is being passed onto consumers. Have a look at the full details of the Intel Atom N455.

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MSI CX623 laptop review

Although I am not very impressed with the design, it has to be said that is, of course, just my opinion. What is definite however is that it is not the lightest 15.6 inch laptop. Easily portable but you probably won't be effortlessly swinging your arms on your stroll to the office or campus with the MSI CX623. Where MSI have excelled is an area that is becoming more and more important to laptop buyers. When people hear stories of iPads lasting for ten hours it raises their aspirations from their battery life in a new laptop.

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Intel HD Graphics 3000 & 2000

As the long awaited Sandy Bridge CPUs like the 2630qm and the super-charged 2920xm actually start to ship, usually in laptops with dedicated GPUs. Which Laptop has added the latest integrated GPUs that also go with the Sandy Brideg CPUs.

Here are the details of the Intel HD 2000 and the Intel HD 3000. Although nowhere near the capabilities of a modern dedicated GPU for games they are surprisingly capable, especially when it comes to HD video decoding and not total write off's for games either.

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First laptop with i7 2920xm ships end of February 2011

The first laptop with the Intel 'Sandy Bridge' i7 2920xm CPU is the Malibal Satori P170HM. According to the Malibal website www.malibal.com orders will be ready to ship by the end of February or the start of March this year.

Malibal offer a great range of customisation options including Blu-Ray drive, upto 16GB of RAM, and anything from a GTX 460m GPU right up to a 485m.

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The ASUS EEE PC 1001PX EU27 Netbook

Staying with the netbook theme from a few days ago Which-Laptop have just reviewed one of the top selling Netbooks on Amazon.com. The ASUS EEE PC 1001PX EU27 Netbook. As well as quite in depth opinion full ratings and comparisons with other netbooks and laptops are available there as well.

In a nut shell the ASUS EEE PC 1001PX EU27 Netbook is best as:

• As a machine to surf the web
• It is for somebody with highly demanding portability requirements
• For the person looking for a laptop that is both sleek and sexy
• For a person or business who wants to spend the absolute minimum possible (but with trade-offs)

More soon. Here it is on Amazon.

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New laptop shop

Just opened a new online laptop shop. Browse for the latest laptops, notebooks, netbooks and tablets.

Including brands like Toshiba, HP, Dell, Sony and more.

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The Samsung N350 Netbook reviewed

So what can the n350 from samsung best be used for?The samsung n350, because it is fairly entry level is best used for quite specific tasks. This is where we think it would be best used and how good we think it will be at it

• As a machine to surf the web
• It is for somebody with highly demanding portability requirements
• For the person looking for a laptop that is both sleek and sexy
• For a person or business who wants to spend the absolute minimum possible (but with trade-offs)

This doesn't mean the n350 cannot be used for anything else but have a read of this full review to make sure if it is suitable for your intended use or not.

Read the full review on Which-Laptop.com

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Find the best laptop

What is the best laptop for you? Of course that depends on what you want to use it for as well as any number of other personal prefferences. Do you favour looks over power, value for money more important than features. Find the best laptop.

So Which-Laptop.com has loads of different ways to find the best laptop for you. You can configure your own, have one reccomended to you, browse reviews from your country or use any one of 10 different ways to find the best laptop for you.

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