Archive for the 'Less than $500' Category
Flip Start 1.0 Review
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Pity the poor UMPC. The much-hyped ultramobile PC has been hailed as the next big thing for a couple of years now, without ever turning out a product that comes close to being useful in real-world situations, thanks to clunky interfaces, high prices, and poor battery life. The $1,999 FlipStart E-1001S (from Vulcan, a company [...]
Everex StepNote NC1500 Laptop Review
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006The Everex StepNote NC1500 first came to our attention as a potentially interesting preholiday Wal-Mart special–a sub-$500 laptop. But the low price isn’t the most interesting thing about the StepNote NC1500. First, there’s the unusual choice of CPU. Instead of going with Intel or AMD, like virtually every other desktop or laptop computer on the [...]
Dell Inspiron B130
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006The Dell Inspiron B130 is something that people always check out, but rarely end up buying. At $449, it’s the cheapest (at review time) notebook you can get on Dell’s Web site that’s not a refurbished model. Sure, Dell thinks of this as its starting configuration, where you build upon it by adding more system [...]
Acer Aspire 3000
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Starting at less than $600, the Acer Aspire 3000 is one of the least expensive laptops on the market. Though it has an unremarkable design, the Aspire 3000 features a big 15-inch standard-aspect display and weighs right around six pounds–too heavy for regular travel but fairly lightweight for a laptop of this size and price. [...]
