HP Elitebook Folio: Oh man. HP have been busy. Really busy. Not “busy” in the biblical sense, but “busy” in the “Shitsticks! We’d better steal some more designs from Apple!” sense. If that’s a sense of the word “busy”. If it wasn’t, it is now.
HP suck. And not in a good, biblical way.
(image from The Verge)
Samsung Series 9 Trackpad: Looks familiar. Surely, surely - surely - they will have made it work just as well as the one on the MacBook Pro? Surely?
What do you think? Here’s The Verge:
The Elan pad has a nice smooth physical surface, and most Windows gestures work pretty well, including the critical two-finger scrolling (complete with inertia) and both three- and four-finger swipes for multitasking maneuvers. Still, it’s not nearly as responsive as I’d like, and using it is a bit of a chore. Compared to a MacBook or some of the better Windows laptops we’ve used, tap-to-click has a slight delay, pinch to zoom is extremely awkward, and, most importantly, plain ol’ cursor tracking (you know, just moving around your pointer) feels abnormally slow even with the sensitivity turned up. It’s servicable and I’ve used far worse, and Samsung says the drivers may improve from here on out. The laptop doesn’t ship until April, and I’m already using drivers that are at least one revision newer than the original.
Well that sounds FUCKING EXCELLENT, doesn’t it? As Lord Gruber pointed out in relation to the Dell XPS 13 “good thing you don’t need to use the trackpad much on a notebook.” See also the HP Envy 15.
(image from The Verge)
LG A540: “She Blinded Me With Science” trilled 80s oddball popster Thomas Dolby. “They Underwhelmed Me With A MacBook Pro knock-off with 3D specs that I don’t care about”, I trilled.
More on this, courtesy of balanced-viewpoint-mongers The Verge (emphasis mine):
Even after the aforementioned BIOS update, though, you’re not going to want to play games without a cord: starting at 50 percent battery, we only managed 20 minutes of Battlefield 3 before the Blade told us that our juice was running out.
5.9. Dropping to 0.8 in 20 minutes time.
(image from The Verge)
Razer Blade: It’s been a while since we* featured anything that wasn’t a direct and blatant copy of an iPhone or an iPad. In fact, given the clockwork like regularity of their release, I propose a new measurement for time - the number of pathetic, crappy, underpowered, unusable tablets announced between any two dates.
So for the first time in 56,988,999 samsungs, here’s a laptop that’s designed to look like a MacBook Pro. Don’t deny it. Oh, you’re not? Good.
*By which I mean me. I can’t afford an assistant. Still waiting for that CrunchFund seed-funding.
(image from Gizmodo. Many more startling images available there.)
Dell XPS 15z: One of the things I enjoy the most about doing this website is just how easy it is. I’m lazy, you see, but not, it seems, as lazy as Dell. In fact, I’d wager that it took the folks at Resources For Life longer to prepare this handy “Crikey! With the XPS 15z, Dell just copied the MacBook Pro!” guide than Dell took to “design” it in the first place.
(image from Resources For Life)
Engadget’s review of the HP Envy 15 is in:
But HP stumbles in several critical areas: the Envy 15 is heavier than other laptops in its class, and in exchange for toting that extra heft, you’re rewarded with middling battery life. The keyboard’s alright, but we did have to type in a deliberate way to ensure it recognized our every press. The display appears to have some color calibration problems. Most importantly, though, the laptop’s saddled with a finicky, stiff touchpad — a nuisance large enough to slow down your entire workflow. A shame, since this is an otherwise speedy machine. Because of these shortcomings, the Envy 15 doesn’t best the MacBook Pro, though it admirably undercuts its lofty $1,800 starting price. All told, the Envy 15 offers some compelling features for the money, but before you pull the trigger we’d suggest you also check out the Dell XPS 15z, which is lighter with a comfier keyboard / trackpad, as well as the long-lasting Samsung Series 7 Chronos. If you do go for the Envy 15, we hope you have a pretty stationary setup in mind: you’ll want an outlet close by and also, a mouse.
Sounds great!
(image from Engadget)
HP Spectre: “Ah, MacBook Pro, we meet again. But this time the advantage is mine.”
From Wikipedia:
SPECTRE began…as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films
As quoted by Blofeld on several occasions: “This organisation does not tolerate failure”
Others may comment; I merely admire.
(image from Information Week)
Lenovo IdeaPad U310: We’re having a fairly heated argument here - I say this is inspired by the MacBook Pro, others are suggesting that it is “merely heavily influenced” by it. Expect this debate to rage on for literally minutes more.
(image from Engadget)
HP Envy 15: “It’s fine. No-one will ever put it side-to-side with a MacBook Pro. No-one will ever know.”
(image from The Verge)
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