Posts Tagged with "budget gaming notebook"

Fujitsu Amilo Pi 3560 notebook hands-on review

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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

Hands-on review of Acer 5738DG 3D Laptop

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With all the fuzz around their 3D Vision NVIDIA surely too often took credit of “inventing” the stereoscopic 3D (S3D). Of course it’s not true, but NVIDIA sure did a lot about spreading the word about it. In fact – so much that any average 9 years old (at least those that didn’t go for the better 3D performance ATI’s card currently have) can recite you what do you need to set up a 3D Vision rig – NVIDIA graphics card, 120 Hz monitor, 3D vision glasses, all costly beyond reason if you never played a game in S3D mode. Once you play a game all fits, as the systems can be breathteaking to anyone who’s not picky about small bugs and such. The time came for other manufacturers to get the clue and see there are money to be made out of the S3D. And here we are, playing with a new toy – the first widely available notebook with S3D capable screen – Acer Aspire 5738DG. …read on