Cisco Cheng

About

Cisco Cheng is PC Magazine's lead analyst for laptops and tablet PCs. He is responsible for benchmarking, reviewing, and evaluating all laptops and tablet PCs. Cisco started with PC Magazine in 1999 as a support technician, testing printers, PC components, networking equipment, and software. He became the lead analyst for the laptop team in 2003 and since has written numerous reviews, buyer guides, and feature stories for both PCMag.com and the print magazine.

Intel Posts Mobile Processor Prices for Laptops, Ultralow-Voltage Chips

Intel posted new prices for Intel’s mobile processors, including its latest low-voltage and ultralow-voltage processors, the LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700, L7500 and L7300. The LV Intel Core 2 Duo L7700 (1.8GHz), L7500 (1.6GHz) and L7300 (1.4GHz) have 4MB Level 2 caches and support for an 800MHz FSB. The $316 L7700 costs as much […]

Features, or Services, Shine in Dell Vostro 1500

What do you get when you strip a Dell Inspiron laptop of its colors, remove all the trial software, and add a full range of support services for small businesses? You get a Dell Vostro, of course. The Dell Vostro 1500 ($1,282 direct) is a laptop that caters to business environments with fewer than 25 […]

Panasonic Ultraportables Get Powerful Upgrades

Not all Panasonic Toughbooks are big briefcases, made to withstand the worst that nature has to throw at them. The company also manufactures a series of business-rugged Toughbooks—some of the lightest in the world and just as tough—to meet the demands of corporate and consumer folks who take their computing on the road. Today, Panasonic […]

Dell Releases New Power Laptops

Dells Inspiron laptop line wouldnt be complete without a variety of screen-size options. In addition to the Inspiron 1420 (which we just reviewed), Dell is also announcing the Inspiron 1520 and the Inspiron 1720. The major differences are screen size, weight, and price. The rest of the features and processing components are consistent with what […]

Toshiba Announces New Gaming, AMD Laptops

Toshiba is already a serious contender in the laptop market, and the company is looking to expand its laptop line by jumping on the AMD bandwagon to keep up with similar offerings from Dell and HP. The Satellite A215-S4757 will be the first Toshiba laptop to feature an AMD processor. Toshiba is also beefing up […]

ASUS W5fe SideShow

At A Glance > Full Review SideShow is one of the most intriguing features found in Microsoft Windows Vista because it lets any laptop manufacturer add a secondary display (ideally on the lid) for you to get quick access to your e-mail, photos, calendar information, and music files. And thats just scratching the surface. A […]

Putting Windows Vista PCs to the Test

Windows Vista is here. The long-awaited operating system is set to grace current and future builds of desktop and laptop manufacturers as of the end of January. PC Magazine managed to get our hands on some of the first systems releasing with the Vista OS, and what we found may surprise you. For starters, Vista […]

Lenovo 3000 C200 Is Back in Style

When the Lenovo 3000 C Series launched with the C100 early last year, Lenovo decided to take the budget laptops design in a different direction. Bad idea. The C100 looked hideous compared with its sleeker siblings, the 3000 V100 and 3000 N100. Suffice it to say that Lenovo heard the rants and is ready for […]

Hands-On with the Samsung UMPC

Las Vegas —Samsung kicked off CES with a bunch of announcements that included the Samsung Q1P-SSD—its next generation UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC). I stopped by the booth to witness with my own eyes the new and exciting improvements Samsung was boasting about at its press conference, eight months after its first-generation flop. Suffice to say, the […]

Alienware Aurora m9700

Aside from Yoda in Star Wars, you rarely see green aliens in science-fiction movies anymore—these days, the color is more often applied to machines. Enter the latest Alienware gaming laptop, the Aurora m9700 ($3,934 direct), and its fresh coat of metallic cyborg-green paint. The gaming rig will likely attract tons of attention, or at least […]