More HP Laptop Coupons for this Week, Deals getting Better!

HP is obviously trying to clean the shelves for new products, rumored to be released next week.  They just issued 3 more new laptop coupons that can score some serious savings.  Here’s the run down: Use coupon code NBK3358 to get $450 off the purchase of an HP Pavilion dv6t Quad or HP ENVY laptop  [...]

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Hibernate Vs. Sleep Mode: Which is Best to Use and When?

If, like many individuals, you use your laptop for intermittent stretches at a time between meetings and other errands, knowing the difference between your computer’s sleep mode and hibernation mode is important. Each has its pros and cons when it comes to electrical power, battery life, processing speed and data storage. You could think of [...]

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Lenovo IdeaPad Y480 with Intel Ivy Bridge now Shipping for $999

Lenovo has just this week listed the IdeaPad Y480 on Lenovo.com and marked it as “Coming Soon”, but online retailer Tigerdirect.com is offering a more immediate gratification, you can order the Y480 now and choose one or two day shipping and have it on your doorstep this week.  Which is interesting, seeing as the Y480 [...]

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Deal: HP dv7t Quad Edition for $699 after $550 off Coupon!

*** UPDATE 4/21/2012: Deal is now over, coupon used up *** HP just issued a new $550 off coupon for the Pavilion dv7tqe.  Use coupon code NBN6552 at checkout to get $550 off the price of a dv7t Quad Edition laptop, the final price for a loaded configuration comes to only $699.  Here are the [...]

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HP EliteBook 8470p Review – Intel Ivy Bridge Shines

As someone who lives in the world of marketing, I often look at certain products and wonder why they don’t have more of a following. One such product is the EliteBook line of HP laptops. Designed to be used in the office or by the worker on the go, EliteBooks are some of the most [...]

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Intel HD Graphics 4000 Review and Benchmarks

The new Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics unit is being touted by Intel as a giant leap forward over the current HD 3000 graphics with a 50% or above performance boost promised.  The Intel HD 4000 GPU will be a standard part of any Intel Ivy Bridge equipped laptop, also known as the 3rd Generation [...]

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New HP Coupons for April, up to $450 Off Pavilion & ENVY Laptops

HP has issued some new coupons for April 2012 that include $450 ENVY and Pavilion laptops and even a coupon code for the Folio 13 Ultrabook.  Here’s a run down of the coupons now available: Use coupon code NBJ2857 to get $425 off the purchase of an HP Pavilion dv6t Quad  laptop Coupon expires on [...]

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Lenovo IdeaPad U310 and U410 Ultrabook Hands-on

The IdeaPad U310 and U410 ultrabooks will be arriving soon, Lenovo is promising a $699 starting price tag on these new laptops, this is far below the first Lenovo IdeaPad U300s ultrabook released last year.  I got a chance to try out both of these new laptops at a Lenovo event and came away impressed [...]

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Intel Ivy Bridge Laptops to be Released April 23rd

The actual announce and release date for Intel’s new Ivy Bridge, the 3rd generation of Core processors, has been a moving target to say the least.  After much shifting around on the calendar it appears Monday April 23rd is going to be the day Intel finally puts out a press release and allows manufacturers such [...]

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Are HP ENVY 4 and ENVY 6 Laptops Coming this Summer?

It appears HP has an ENVY 4 and ENVY 6 laptop release up their sleeve thanks to the diligent sleuthing of NBR forum member justinkw1.  There’s not a whole lot to go on other than the fact HP recently posted support pages for an ENVY 4-1000 and ENVY 6-1000 series. Generally these support pages show [...]

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