MSI PR210-Pink Laptop

The MSI PR210-Pink is a 12.1-inch ultraportable laptop with an attractive metallic cover. It's built on the AMD Turion64 dual core processor. With a WorldBench 6 score of 55, it's hardly a speed demon, but will be enough to tackle most everyday tasks without much struggle. One of the good thing for the MSI PR210 machine, is the long battery life. In the drain tests done by CNet on this machine, it impressively lasted for three full hours. We would expect the battery life to last even longer during the normal use. The trade-off for the decent battery life however, is the relatively longer time it takes to be fully charged, which some people might find it irritating.

In terms of portability, With the weight of 4.6 pounds and 12.1-inch screen, the MSI PR210 laptop falls in between the ultraportable and the thin-and-light class. It's smaller than an ordinary thin-and-light laptop, and bulkier than most ultraportable laptops. One of the factor that contribute to its weight, is the metal and plastic case, which also makes it feel remarkably sturdy.

As an ultraportable class of laptop, it's quite unexpected to have a HDMI port and a TV antenna connector, and MSI PR210 has them both. Other than that, the machine offers a fairly typical connections and ports of an ultraportable laptop.

In terms of display, the MSI PR210 features a sharp 1,280x800 native resolution, giving a crisp and colorful display. Our complaint is however the graphic controller with the games frame rate of 5 frames per second, which is less than thrilling.

Here's the main spec of MSI PR210-Pink:
~ Operating System : Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
~ Screen : 12.1-inch, WXGA, ACV(Amazing Crystal Vision) Display
~ Screen Resolution : 1280 x 800
~ Processor : 1.60GHz AMD Turion®64 X2, TL50
~ Chipset : ATI RS690T+SB600
~ Graphics : ATI Radeon® Xpress 1270
~ Memory : 2GB
~ Hard Drive : 120GB
~ Price : $839.32

In summary, the MSI PR210-Pink is looking good, with various choice of case colors (blue and green besides pink). The good thing about this laptop is the long battery life, HDMI port and TV Tuner, and the reasonable price. On the other hand, the MSI PR210's gaming and WorldBench scores isn't that good. But bottom line, this colorful laptop still offers a decent feature set for typical business executive and laptop users valuing entertainment capabilities.

Pink Laptop: Sony VAIO CR Series

The CR series from Sony VAIO has a very stylish and colorful outfit that will certainly appears attractive to the the style-concious laptop users. There are several colors available for the Sony VAIO CR series, and the cosmopolitan pink is one of them (VGN-CR490EBP). Combining the sleek design, eye-catching colors and custom engraving that is offered by the CR series, college students who look for a fun and functional laptop will find it a perfect laptop for them.

With a 14.1 inch display, the Sony VAIO CR series have 1.67 inch of thickness and weight 5.5 pounds. Sony has officially catogarized the CR laptop into the thin-and-light class. It is however find to be slightly heavier and thicker than the standard size of thin-and-light laptop. But this shouldn't be a major issue since the the CR series laptop will most probably serve as a popular multimedia device for college students who don't really find size and weight an issue.

In terms of performance, the Sony VAIO CR series is available with the latest generation Core 2 Duo processor with Centrino Pro platform, and up to 4 GB of RAM which gives it a really good performance. Here's the detail specification for the Sony VAIO CR series laptop:

~ Processor: 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7100
~ Hard Drive: Up to 200 GB (SATA, 5400RPM)
~ Memory: Up to 4GB of 667 MHz
~ Graphic Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (965 Express chipset with up to 358MB of shared RAM)
~ Optical Drive: DVD+-R Double layer / DVD+-RW Drive
~ Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium

One of the great features for the VAIO CR series, is the AV mode that allows us to directly view pictures and movies without having to start up Windows. So when you get a Sony CR series, you are getting not just a stylish laptop, but also a portable multimedia device.

The battery life of the Sony VAIO CR series is between 2 to 3.5 hours, which is acceptable, but one issue with the battery is it can easily get loose when you forget to lock it. Watch this video for the demonstration of the battery issue.



In conclusion, the Sony VAIO CR pink laptop is nice looking, and the performance is great. There's a slight issue known for its battery, but it can be avoided as long as you remember to always lock it.

Painting a Pink Laptop With Colorware

Not every laptop brand has pink color laptop. And even when a laptop brand do have pink color laptop, it might not be the types of pink that you like. In order to get a laptop with the perfect pink (or any other color) that you like, you have the option of painting it with Colorware.

Colorware is a company that provide the service of altering the color of existing products. Laptop is one of the product that they offer their service with, but unfortunately, there's only a limited number of laptop models that they are currently accepting for color customization:

Apple
- MacBook and MacBook Air
- MacBook Pro
- iMac 3rd & 4th Gen
- Mac Mini

Levono
- ThinkPad T61
- ThinkPad T60

Dell
- Dell Vostro
- Dell XPS

The pink MacBook Pro from Colorware:



With Colorware, you can either send in your own laptop for coloring, or you can buy a brand new one from them. It will cost around $500 to send in your laptop for coloring, which is quite expensive compare with just getting a pink laptop skin, but the high quality and style that you get from their proprietary color coating system will definitely worth it.

Pink Laptop Skin

While more and more laptop manufacturers are producing pink color laptops, not all of the laptop brands have pink color laptop. For example, Apple notebook does not originally come with pink color. But if you want, you can always skin your laptop into pink color, with some really cool design.







See? They look even cooler than the original laptop in pink. There are quite a number of company out there that are selling laptop skins on the Internet, and the price is ranged only from $20 to $30. This is actually a good choice for all the girls who love pink color laptop, as they can focus more on getting a better features and performance laptop and skin it later with her favourite pink color.
Some websites that's selling laptop skin online:

www.skinit.com
www.schtickers.com
www.garskin
www.istyles.com

You can easily get a list other websites that sells cool laptop skin by searching on Google.

Pink Laptop: LogiQ 6-5032

LogiQ 6-5032 is an ultraportable laptop with cool looking outfit, and good specification. The laptop is available in four different colors: pink, blue, black and white.
If you are looking for a pink laptop with good specification for a reasonable price, and do not have major concern about the battery life, LogiQ 6-5032 will be a good choice to put into your consideration list. Here's the specification for this laptop:

~ Weight - 1.8 Kg
~ Display - 12.1 inch non glare TFT display
~ Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T7250
~ Main Memory - 2GB DDR2
~ Hard Drive - 250GB
~ Video Chipset - SiS M672 Integrated
~ Optical Drive - DVD/RW
~ Wireless LAN - Built in Wireless LAN 802.11g 54Mbps
~ Operating System - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

Compare to other ultraportable laptop, Logiq 6-5032 is having a pretty high-end processor and comparatively larger size of hard drive space. But with the integrated Sis Mirage 3+ graphics chip, it's obviously not suitable to use for gaming. Overall, the specification is well worth the price of £586.79. The only drawback, however, is the short battery life. According to the review, Logiq 6-5032 only managed to hold out 73 minutes when running the strenuous test. So if you are travelling with Logiq 6-5032, you will need to plan for a few stops to recharge the battery.

Conclusion: The pink LogiQ 6-5032 laptop do have a great fancy outfit, and the price is well worth the specification. The performance is also great for word processing / Internet surfing. It's just that it has a relatively poor battery life, and it's not for gaming.

Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Accessories

This is the part four of the pink laptop buying guide, and also the final part of the guide. If you haven't read about the previous guide yet, here are the links for the previous guides that will give you some basic knowledge that you should know before buying a laptop.

Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Overview
Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Portability
Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Spec

In this article we will talk about the accessories that you should get for you laptop. Assuming that you are already having a new fancy pink laptop in front of you, the next thing that you can do is to get some accessories for your laptop to increase its usability. Here are some suggestion for you to accessorize your laptop.

Docking Station
A docking station is an accessory that make it easy for you to connect your laptop to the network and any other PC peripherals. With a docking station at home or office, you can actually have the network cable, LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse and any other computer peripherals connected to it, and by attaching your pink laptop to the docking station, you will be able to use them as if they are connected directly to your laptop. It give you the convenience of keeping all the peripherals cables to stay connected to the docking station, while you walk away with your laptop. When you return, all you need to do is just attach you laptop back to the docking station, and you will again gain access to all the peripherals.

Laptop Bag
After spending about a thousand dollar for a cool pink laptop, getting a better laptop bag (in pink) is necessary. Many of the laptop bags that come with the original laptop manufacturer do not have enough internal pockets and padded shoulder strap. Furthermore, they do not looks cool, and most probably they are not pink in color. After spending all the amount of money to get a cool fancy pink laptop, you don't want to get a laptop bag that looks ugly and uncomfortable to carry. So look for a laptop bag that have a cool design with padded shoulder straps and enough compartments to keep your power adapters and other laptop accessories.

Laptop battery
An extra laptop battery is necessary if you know you are going to travel a lot with you laptop. A normal laptop battery will normally last for two to three hours. If you constantly need to work on your laptop during traveling, while you are away from the power supply, you wouldn't regret getting an extra laptop battery as backup. It will
cost you around 50 to 300 dollar, but it's well worth the money.

External Drive
An external drive can be an external hard drives, DVD/CD-RW, DVD-rewritable, or even a thumb \drive. It is strongly recommended that you get at least one of these as they will be in great help when you need to make a copy of backup data for yourself or to another party, such as your customer. It will cost you as low as $15 for a 1GB thumbdrive.

Keyboard and Mouse
An external keyboard and mouse is especially necessary for those with an ultraportable laptop. With the small keyboard and touch pad of the laptop, it will be much more comfortable when you have an ordinary size of mouse and keyboard that you use normally on your PC. Use them together with your docking station, so that you will only need to deal with the small keyboard and touchpad only when you are on a travel.

Besides the accessories that I mentioned in this article, there a certainly more accessories out there such as laptop cooler, speaker, etc. It will very much depends on personal needs. These are just a few laptop accessories that we think might be of interest to most of the laptop users out there. with this, it concludes the pink laptop buying guide, and feel free to drop any question in the comment section if you have any question.

Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Spec

aThis is the part three of pink laptop buying guide. Check out the pink laptop buying guide - overview, for the overview of important aspects that you should be paying attention to when buying a laptop; or the pink laptop buying guide - portability, for the more in depth discussion about the laptop portability.

While this guide is written specially for those who wish to buy a pink color laptop, it's more on the few very basic aspects of the laptop as it's predicted that most pink laptop buyer are made up of girls who have no or very limited knowledge about laptop computer hardware stuff. If you are a tech savvy guy or girl who already have the basic knowledge for laptop computer hardware, this article might not be of your interest.

When buying a new laptop computer, you will find that there are many many technical terms of the hardware component which makes you totally lost. That's normal for an average user. This guide will give you some simple description about a few important components of your laptop computer. The first most important part of a laptop computer is the processor. It's the 'brain' of your pink laptop computer which gives it the ability to think, make all the complicated computation. As of today, these are the most common processors that are available on the market:

- Intel Core 2 Extreme
- Intel Core 2 Duo
- Intel Core Duo
- AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core
- AMD Turion 64 / Intel Core Solo / Intel Pentium M
- Mobile AMD Sempron / Intel Celeron M

Note that the list above start from the most high-end processor to the lowest end at the bottom. For avarage laptop user, the Intel Core Duo or AMD Turion 64X2 Dual Core is good enough for normal gaming, Internet surfing, and word processing task.

Then the next most important aspect of a laptop computer is the main memory or RAM (Random Access Memory). When you use your pink laptop to load up the operating system, and open up several application programs, all of them (the OS and the current running applications) will reside on the main memory. So imagine the RAM as a table, and the hard drive memory as the drawer. How many applications that your pink laptop is able to run simultaneously without degrading the performance will depends on whether the table is large enough to place all the applications on it. When the table is full, and you still want to place more stuff on it (running more applications simultaneously), some of them will need to be put into the drawer, and to be taken in and out from the drawer as the application runs. And this will cause performance degration. So more RAM, better performance. How much RAM should you get for your pink laptop will depend on what OS you are running. To run Windows XP or any earlier version of Windows, 512 MB is the minimum that you should get, while for for Windows Vista or Mac OS X, 1GB of RAM is the minimum requirement (2GB is recommended for optimal performance).

And finally the graphic card. If you are just using your laptop just for normal word processing, internet surfing and playing lower end 2D game, an onboard graphic card will be good enough. But if you want to use it for graphically demanding job, such as playing high-end 3D games,a faster graphic card that has its own memory is required. such graphic card will have it's own memory (32MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB, 512MB) so it will not need to share the RAM of the CPU, and thus giving much better performance when it comes to games/applications that are graphically demanding. If you think you need a higher end of such graphic card, read the guide from notebookheck.

So, in terms of the laptop computer's spec, these are the at least three important components that should be paid attention to. While this guide is titled 'Pink Laptop Buying Guide', it actually applies to any other laptops, whether it's pink or not. It's just that those who are looking to buy a pink laptop will usually have less knowledge about the computer hardware stuff which this guide will give them some basic understanding of what they are getting besides the fancy pink laptop.

Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Portability

This is the 2nd part of the pink laptop buying guide which will be focusing on portability of a laptop.

Portability of a laptop depends on its size and weight. Majority of the pink laptop lovers are girls who love stylish /girly stuff. So when it comes to weight and size, most of them will prefer to get the thin and light / ultraportable type of laptop, as it looks the coolest and is easiest to carry. While smaller and thinner laptops do give the advantage of portability and cool outlook, they are comparatively more expensive than the midsize laptop, and might also having less features due to the size limitation. Generally, there are 5 categories of laptop in terms of portability: Ultraportable, Thin and Light, Midsize, and Desktop Replacement.


Ultraportable
This is the lightest and smallest among all categories. It's most suitable for people who need to travel with their laptop frequently. An ultraportable laptop will have the following characteristics:
- Thickness of less than 1 inch
- Weight equal or less than 4 pound
- Diagonal screen size of 14 inches or less
- Normally with slower and and lower voltage mobile processor
- Comparatively fewer numbers of connection ports
- Small touchpad and keyboard
- Starting price of $1,100
Available pink laptops in this category include: Sony VAIO Tz Series, LG E200/300, Clevo 12" series, Fujitsu LifeBook and Samsung Q40, Asus Eee PC.


Thin and Light
This is the intermediate between ultraportable and midsize laptop. It has more features, better performance but larger size compare with the ultraportable. Some people may prefer this category of laptop as they have better performance, and although the size is larger than the ultraportable, still easy to carry. The thin and light laptop has the following characteristics:
- Thickness of approximately 1 inch
- Weight between 4 to 6 pounds
- Diagonal screen size of 14 inches (approximately)
- Normally with midrange to fast dual core processors
- More connection ports than the ultraportable + optical drive
- Small touchpad and keyboard
- Starting price: $800
Available pink laptop in this category include: Sony VAIO CR series and Dell Inspiron 1420.

Midsize
This is the most common type of laptop. While the design of ultraportable and thin-and-light laptop are emphasizing on portability, and desktop replacement is design for high performance, the midsize laptop is not specialized in any of them. It's slightly larger and heavier than the thin-and-light laptop, and is not particularly suitable for travel. Most home users who do not need to travel a lot with their laptop will find this laptop suitable for them. The midsize laptop has the following characteristics:
- Thickness: > 1 inch
- Weight between 6 to 8 pounds
- Diagonal screen size of 14 to 15.4 inches
- Can have a wide range of processor, from the fast Core 2 Duo processors or Turion 64X2 to Slow/budget AMD Sempron or Intel Celeron
- Most connection ports + memory card reader, DVD burner
- Appearance is not as attractive as ultraportable / thin-and-light
- Starting price: $500
Available pink laptops in this category include: Sony VAIO FZ series, Dell Inspiron 1520 & 1525


Desktop replacement
This is the bulkiest but also with the best performance laptop. It can be carry for short distance, but is definitely not for long travel. As the name suggest, the desktop replacement is designed to have the performance and features that you can get from a desktop PC. With its high performance and complete set of features, the desktop replacement is most suitable for gamers and home / business users who use their laptops for high level digital video or mutimedia work. The desktop replacement laptop has the following characteristics:
- Thickness: > 1 inch
- Weight 7.5 pounds or more
- Diagonal screen size of 17 to 20 inches
- Fast dual core processor
- Most connection ports + memory card reader, two layer DVD burner
- Limited battery life it's not designed for mobility
- Starting price: $1000
Available pink laptops in this category include: Dell Inspiron 1720

Each categories have their good and bad. A few thing that you should be considering while buying a laptop: the frequency that you will be traveling with your laptop, the performance and features of the laptop that meets your requirement, and maybe the appearance of the laptop. This will help you to get yourself an ideal pink laptop.

Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Overview

The fancy pink laptop has become popular among female laptop users especially after the movie legally blonde. I was once asked by a friend for recommendation for a new laptop. After recommending several laptop models which I think are good in performance with reasonable price, she ends up buying a pink fancy laptop (which is not in my list) with almost the same price, but with lower performance and functionality. I then realized that for some laptop users (mostly girls), a pink color laptop is much more important than any other aspects of a laptop. If you are one of those in this category, this is the pink laptop guide that will help you to get a pretty pink laptop, and yet with performance and functionality that suits your need. As an overview, these are the few important aspects of the laptop that you should consider when buying a laptop:

Portability
When we talk about portability, we are mostly referring to the size and the weight of a laptop. Most pink laptop lovers out there would rather have a smaller size laptop as it looks cooler and is of course more portable. But in fact, there are pros and cons for having a small laptop. Besides having a smaller screen and keyboard, it often has less features compare to their bulkier brethren due to its size limitation. On the other hand, the bulkier laptop has better functionalities and performance, but is hard to carry and occupying more space. So we will have to give up either one -- portability or functionality. It's important that we think about what's the most important to ourselves: performance, appearance, long battery life, functionality, or lower price. There are generally 5 categories of laptop in terms of portability: Desktop replacement, midsize, thin and light, ultraportable and tablet PC. You will find more in depth discussion about laptop portability in another article on this site.

Specs
Laptop comes in a wide variety of specs. Different specs will suit different people, depending on your own needs. Many manufacturers nowadays offer custom configuration for new laptop. So besides making sure that the color of the laptop is pink, it's critical that you understand at least the few most important specs of your laptop, to be able to select the specs that suit you most. We will break this into a few most important specs: processor, memory, display card and discuss each of them in details in a separate article.

Operating System
The operating system is the most important program which you use to operate your pink laptop. Using the right Operating system will save you a lot of times and money. So when buying a laptop, it's important that you know which operating system is installed. The three most common operating system for business and home users are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. While most laptops come with Microsoft Windows, which most people are most familiar with, there are laptops that are default to other OS such as the Apple MacBook (Mac OS), and the Asus Eee PC (Linux). So pay attention to what OS the vendor is offering before buying it.

Accessories
What accessories do you need for your pink laptop. This again is mostly depending on your own needs. Getting the right accessories will help you to improve the usability of your laptop. Some common accessories that laptop users might find useful are External drives, Docking station, Extra battery, Laptop bag, Mouse and keyboard.

And finally we need to know which laptop brand on the market is offering pink color laptop. So far in our list, the laptop manufacturer that offers pink laptops include: Sony, Dell, Fujitsu, Samsung, Asus, Clevo, and LG. In the rest of the articles of this site, you will find the discussion and comparison of the models of the pink laptops from each brand. Browse through this site for more news and reviews about pink laptop.

Asus Eee Pink Laptop

Different from the normal size laptop, the Asus Eee PC is a mini, low-cost laptop that falls into the UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) category. With a 7-inch wide screen, this device weight only 2-pound which makes it incredibly portable. The spec of the Asus Eee laptop includes a low-end Intel Mobile CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 2GB/4GB/8GB solid-state flash hard drive, and a Linux operating system preloaded with some useful applications (ie. Firefox, Oppenoffice, generic media player, instant messaging client, and a handful of pre-installed casual games). Currently, the pink color laptop is available only for the 2GB and 4GB among the Asus Eee PC series.

The Asus Eee PC is not suitable for everyone. The low-end processor, tiny hard drive space, and lack of the Windows OS is enough to scare away many potential users. But if you are the one who is looking for a highly portable laptop used solely for web surfing and office works, this will be one of the machine that you will want to consider.

Pink Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1525

Talking about Dell's laptop, you might still be thinking of the bulky, overweight laptops from the old days. Well, not anymore. Compare to the previous laptop model from Dell (Inspiron 1520), the Inspiron 1525 is 30% slimmer, 25% smaller, and almost half a pound lighter. With a new sleek design, Dell Inspiron 1525 is now available in 8 different colors and 4 new patterns.. and out of the 12 available options, 2 of them are pink:

Pink Flamingo


Blossom Pattern


According to several reviewing article for Inspiron 1525, the overall performance is just fine for standard applications. It might not be suitable for those who are heavy gamers, as powerful graphics cards will not be offered as an option—only integrated graphics.

Spec Data:
- Screen Size: 15.4 inches
- Screen Size Type: widescreen
- Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250
- Processor Speed: 2 GHz
- Storage Capacity: 120 GB
- RAM: 2 GB
- Graphics Card: Intel GMA X3100
- Networking Options: 802.11a/g
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
- Primary Optical Drive: DVD+R DL
- Type: General Purpose, Media, Value
- Weight: 6 lb

For those who are looking for a stylish pink laptop with good multimedia and productivity features and do not need to have cutting edge 3D performance, Dell Inspiron 1525 is certainly a great choice to consider.

Pink Laptop: Sony VAIO Graphic Splash Expression Collection

If you are looking for a cool, unique, stylish and pink laptop, the Graphic Splash Expression Collection from Sony VAIO will be a perfect match for you. Limited to only 1200 units, Sony allows you to customize your laptop by mix-and-match the colors and patterns on their website. There are three colors and three patterns available. While we are only interested in the pink color laptop on this blog, here are the three patterns that you can choose from:

Victorian Lace


Flora


Leaf


Besides the cool stylish design, the Graphic Splash Expression Collection also gives you the choice to select custom font for the keyboard lettering. There are three types of font available: Bradley Hand, Copperplate, and Synchro (shown from left to right). Cool~~



The entry level configuration:
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1GHz processor
- 120GB HDD,
- 2GB RAM,
- wireless and Bluetooth
- Windows Vista OS

Starting price: $1279

Sony VAIO Pink Laptop

The CR series of Sony VAIO pink laptop is certainly a great choice to consider for girls who love style. In fact, the greatest selling point of this 14.1-inch machine is its eye-poping colors and chic design. It has a curvy design which is definitely comfortable to hold, and an LED pulsates beneath the notebook’s trim reflecting what the PC is doing -- booting up, powering down, hibernating -- and glowing and fading accordingly. Backed by the Windows Vista operating system and Intel Centrino Duo processor technology with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the gorgeous VAIO CR laptop dressed in Cosmopolitan Pink is a great combination of technology and fashion.

A great feature on the CR series of Sony VAIO, is the Click & Play feature which allows us to directly view DVD and other stored media without having to start up Windows. We can even connect the Sony CR-series laptop to the TV at home and view DVD through it. So when you get a CR series of Sony VAIO pink laptop, you are getting not just a stylish laptop, but also a portable multimedia devices.