ultrabook
Microsoft Lays Down Design Requirements For W8
Everybody’s branching out these days. NVidia, formerly a GPU manufacturer, now makes the most powerful mobile processors on the market. Intel, long-time producer of desktop and laptop CPUs, is now aiming for a piece of the mobile pie with its recently-launched Medfield chips. Not to mention tyrannizing over the ultra-slender, ultra-portable ultrabook sector with a [...]
Funky Colors For Samsung Series 5
The Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook is amongst the best ultrabooks on sale right now and has now been launched in Hot Pink and Mocha shades. Other plus points for Samsung’s showpiece ultraportable is its DVD drive. The Samsung Series 5 sports a dual-core 1.6GHz Core i5-2467M CPU paired with 4GB DDR3 RAM. Samsung have opted [...]
Tongfa Ultrabook Packs A Punch
And you thought Tongfa was some sort of martial arts baton? Apparently it’s a Chinese electronics manufacturer, and now they’ve released a 14-inch ultrabook at the Beijing IDF. All we know so far is that the device is running a Sandy Bridge Core i3 CPU of some or other sort and offers a full set [...]
Intel Predicts $700 Ultrabooks
Ultrabooks should rise in popularity this summer. They currently sell from $800 and up, but Intel says ultrabooks will be shipping for $700 by fall. During the summer a whole heap of new ultabooks will reach market, offering new functionality. Some will be convertibles, switching effortlessly from notebook to tablet format, while others will meld [...]
Intel Wants Touch Ultrabooks
Not content with shunting netbooks out of the market with their ultra-portablility, Intel ultrabooks now seem to be eyeing tablet market share greedily. Intel is keen for manufacturers to implement touch-functionality in ultrabooks, according to Intel product manager Anand Kajshmanan in an interview with PCWorld. Kajshamanan said Intel is a firm advocate of touch-input, even [...]
15-inch Acer Fiberglass Ultrabook
One of those anonymous supply-chain sources that so often gets cited in Digitimes has revealed plans by Acer to launch a fiberglass ultrabook in late Q2/early Q3. It seems component manufacturer Pegatron has been developing a 15-inch ultrabook fiberglass shell over the past few weeks, and now the source claims Pegatron has gotten itself a [...]
MacBook Air To Get Supersized
As a further development of the overlapping/merging of various form factors int he ultraportable sphere (11.6-inch netbooks, 14-inch ultrabooks), rumors are surfacing that Apple will be releasing a 15-inch version of its MacBook Air, the touchstone of ultraportable functionality. The Apple MacBook Air is still seen as the device (design- and performance-wise) to aspire to, [...]
Acer M3 Top-end Ultrabook – Preview
Acer revealed the M3 ultrabook at CeBIT last week, the first ultrabook to ship with a dedicated graphics card, just pipping the Lenovo T430u to launch. And not just any old graphics card – the NVidia GeForce GT640M inside the Acer M3 features the much-vaunted 28nm kepler architecture, meaning the M3 should be well capable [...]
Gigabyte U2442V Ultrabook – Preview
Gigabyte is the new latecomer to the ultrabook party, unveiling its U2442V model at the CeBIT in Hanover Germany. U2442V ultrabook is sporting a 13.3-inch 1600 x 900 pixel res display and powered by a next-gen Intel Ivy Bridge 22nm-architecture processor. The Gigabyte U2442V ultrabook is available with a hybrid storage solution, with a spinning-type [...]
Dell Turns Away From Consumer PC Sector
Dell has waved the white flag on the hardware front, announcing it now sees itself not as a PC manufacturer but instead as an IT solutions company, focusing increasingly on the enterprise market. The official re-orientation comes in the wake of poor full-year results, which saw growth in enterprise sectors but weak sales of consumer [...]
