As we recently mentioned here, Acer had plans on releasing at least two notebooks based on Intel Core i7 and ATI’s newest Mobility Radeon HD5650. Few days later it became clear that there is heavy shortage of HD5xxx chips and videocards, which would apply also to the mobile graphic cards by ATI. Our guy at Acer commented that we can expect a delay of the new HD5650-based models, although he couldn’t say how much we’ll have to wait. …read on

After years of being one of the most unpopular notebook brands (with probably the longest name Fujitsu-Siemens Computers), Fujitsu, now with much shorter brand name, finally settled down to making budget and mid range notebooks for the masses. One of the first re-branded Amilo series notebooks is the Pi 3560 – a 15.6-incher with NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M graphics. Fujitsu also has 16-inch Pi 3560s, but since they use the same screen resolution, we decided to take a look of the regular 15.6″. …read on