Daily Reviews Summary 06/16/09

Appealing to home office and small-business users, the ScanSnap S1500 provides a simple, fast and easy-to-use method for converting information contained on paper into digital PDFs at the push of a button. If you need a combination of speed and quality, you will certainly like the S1500, which scans huge amounts of documents quickly. It is extremely fast (both sides are scanned at once), and the built-in options make sharing and storing scans intuitive. Other convenient features such as auto colour and page-size detection, auto crop and de-skew, and auto content-based rotation makes time spent in front of the scanner more productive. If you are looking for a small footprint colour scanner that makes scanning to e-mail or a variety of programs effortless, the ScanSnap S1500 is a great choice. As an added bonus you get a full copy of Adobe's Acrobat 9 Standard.

After much criticism surrounding NVIDIA's continued use of their older G92-based architecture when it comes to refreshing their notebook line-up, today finally sees the launch of a new range of mobile GPUs which base themselves around the company's newer GT200 architecture. These parts promise a number of improvements and interesting developments, so in this preview we take a closer look to examine their make-up.

Sony are one of the world's largest media companies, producing some of the best selling and highest quality media and entertainment electronics products on the market. Many of you reading this probably own Sony hardware - whether it is a digital camera, television, computer, or even a Playstation gaming console and I'm certain you will agree when we say that they offer some of the finest electronics available to consumers.

Today we'll be looking at the Sony P series netbook computer. We've reviewed a plethora of netbooks to date including offerings from Dell, Asus and MSI but the Sony P brings a little something special to the table.

Lenovo is a company that offers a wide range of notebooks. From multimedia notebooks, to gaming notebooks, to value notebooks to netbooks, Lenovo has their bases adequately covered. We've spent some time with a few of the company's prior offerings, but we've never quite seen a product like this. The simplistic G530 is a computer that's easily overlooked. It's not flashy, the model name isn't memorable and the specification sheet has nothing on it that will immediately grab your attention. But what this machine lacks in pizzazz it makes up for in value, so it follows logic that the G530 is a critical pillar in the somewhat undercover Value '3000' notebook line at Lenovo. Click the link below and check it out...

Many people want a small and portable notebook if they are going to be on the road a lot. However, some people like to use notebooks and never actually take them anywhere. This group just wants a smaller machine that takes up less space than a desktop. For this type of user, the large screen notebook for multimedia and gaming may be perfect. Today we are looking at the new Asus N90S notebook. The N90S is a massive beast with all sorts of multimedia features. Read on for all the details.

The OCZ Vertex EX 2.5” Solid State Drives use SLC NAND Flash and are designed to meet the stringent demands of server environments and enterprise applications. As a result these next-generation drives feature speeds of up to a 260MB/s read and 210MB/s write to bring you insane system responsiveness and data access!

Asus can largely be credited for making the netbook so incredibly popular in the first place. Even if you think that netbooks are already obsolete, there is still something to be said about producing an inexpensive computer that can easily handle most of our online tasks, whether it be web surfing, video watching, or word processing. It is with that in mind that we turn our attention to the Asus Eee Top ET1602 1B.

Instead of releasing a longer 850 W power supply, Antec decided to build a taller unit. Because of it is bigger, CP-850 only fits a few cases from Antec (Twelve Hundred, P183 and P193). Is it a better solution that regular-sized units? Let's see.

In the Overclock settings submenu, we can set the CPU host clock, the DRAM frequency, but also the FSB to MCH strap (very useful function, which allows higher CPU overclocking when we have a small number of memory dividers, like this board does have). Here we can set also the voltages for the CPU,DRAM, NB,SB, GTLs and so on