The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520 is a 15” screen business laptop that offers the latest range of Intel Core i3 to Core i7 processors and starts at $549 on Lenovo.com. The E520 is targeted at budget buyers such as small businesses or students, the ThinkPad T520 we recently reviewed is much like the E520 but [...]
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HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition Review
The HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition laptop has a 15.6” screen and is meant as a desktop replacement and multimedia entertainment laptop. The dv6z Quad Edition has the latest AMD Llano Quad Core processors, you can get either the AMD A6 or A8 series, the review unit that I have includes the AMD Quad-Core A8 [...]
VIZIO 8-Inch Android Tablet with Wi-Fi $199.99 at Amazon.com
It looks like the tablet price wars continue, you can now get the 8-inch screen Vizio Android VTAB1008 Tablet for $199.99 at Amazon.com, there’s not shipping charges and no taxes in most states. That’s a $100 price drop from just a few days ago and a $200 price drop from when this tablet first went [...]
Lenovo B570-1068AJU Laptop Reviewed
This week I posted about the Lenovo B570-1068AJU laptop available at Best Buy for $300 and a lot of people wondered if this was a great deal, or instead something that’s too good to be true and a laptop that would perform terribly and break down quickly. I recently reviewed the Lenovo B570 for BusinessTechGear.com [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E425 Review
The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E425 is an AMD powered version of the popular ThinkPad E420 that I reviewed back in June. The ThinkPad E425 is the same as the E420 in every way but for two key features: it has a different chipset and starts at a cheaper price. So how does the Edge E425 [...]
Livescribe Echo Smartpen Review
The late Steve Jobs famously said “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”. While Mr. Jobs and Apple have nothing to do with the Echo Smartpen, it is developed and produced by the company Livescribe, it could well qualify as one of those things in life that you didn’t know [...]
Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX Review
If you take a laptop with you around campus and carry a mouse as your preferred method of input then you probably know that all mice and all table surfaces are not equal. For instance, if you’ve ever encountered trying to use an optical or laser mouse on a glass surface you know it’s impossible. [...]
Tom Bihn Brain Bag Review
From the day you started Kindergarten and your mom handed you a sickeningly cute backpack, a rite of passage for starting school, to slogging around campus as a grad student some 20-years later, a backpack has been with you. You’ve had ugly backpacks, black backpacks, backpacks with your initials on, Jansport backpacks, LL Bean backpacks, [...]
Is the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire a Good Tablet Option for Students?
Amazon yesterday announced their new Kindle Fire Tablet device that will be powered by the Google Android OS. The most stunning part of the announcement wasn’t so much the device itself but rather the $199 price point it be will sold at. That’s half the price of any competing new tablet that has been released [...]
Wacom Bamboo Connect Pen Input Tablet Released, Available now for $79
Wacom, a maker of pen input devices for computers, today released a new set of tablets in its Bamboo lineup targeted at home and home office users. The new Bamboo Connect released this week is particularly well suited for students as it is budget friendly at $79 (on Amazon) and allows you to easily take [...]
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