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The Transformer Book is, or will be, a hybrid laptop-tablet device that ASUS will try to sell to as many people as possible starting this month.
Previously, there wasn't much information on the device, no more than what leaks usually expose anyway, although plenty could be discovered through conjecture.
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16 May 2013
10:38 GMT |
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The world sure likes to blame Microsoft for a lot of things. Lately, the company has been blamed for the low Windows RT tablet turnout, the weak sales on the laptop market, the decline of the PC industry as a whole, etc.
Now, Microsoft is being indirectly blamed for the high likelihood of notebook sales in the third... |
15 May 2013
10:44 GMT |
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Microsoft has just released a brand new SkyDrive commercial trying to emphasize that backing up files in the cloud is vital for many users, especially in case your laptop… uhm… catches fire.
SkyDrive is now playing a much more important role in Microsoft’s long-term strategy, as the company is tr... |
14 May 2013
01:37 GMT |
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Having covered the monitor market when we wrote about the MultiSync MD211C2 and MD211C3 medical-grade monitors, we can now take a look at the computer industry, where NEC also has some things to share.
Not with the whole world though. As sad as it sounds, NEC does not ship its products everywhere. Only in Eastern c... |
10 May 2013
05:53 GMT |
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A while ago, IDC (International Data Corporation) predicted that, overall, the laptop market would be made of 20% touch-based laptops this year. The percentage would then rise each quarter.
For each company, the proportions may be different. Acer seems to be among the ones that will most quickly turn to touch suppor... |
7 May 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Sony revealed the Duo 11 laptop a while ago, and the system was even reviewed by some, but that is just one of the four notebooks that have now been introduced in Japan.
The VAIO Fit series is composed of three members: the 15.5-inch VAIO Fit 15 and 15E, as well as the VAIO Fit 14 (14-inch display).
The Fit 15 is t... |
7 May 2013
08:42 GMT |
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Convertible ultrabooks have been around for almost as long as normal ultrabooks have, but laptops bearing the label of “ultrabook convertbile” are new.
So new, that Acer claims to have just released the very first product of the sort: Aspire P3.
Since it is the first convertible Windows 8 ultrabook on... |
3 May 2013
10:53 GMT |
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A while ago, Acer teased a small photograph of the upcoming Aspire R7 computer, which deliberately failed to show it in its full glory. Now, the company must feel that enough hype has built up, because it has published a new photo, an actual press shot of the item. The "Ezel" hinge is the main asset here, as it all... |
3 May 2013
10:28 GMT |
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Eager to make sure it continues to lead the PC industry, Lenovo has launched a new ThinkPad laptop, called ThinkPad S431 and equipped with something that other laptops lack.
That something is the OneLink technology, which allows users to use a single cable to connect the ThinkPad OneLink Dock, which has dedicated v... |
1 May 2013
04:04 GMT |
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There was a time when the lowest-end laptops were called netbooks, sold for $599 / 599 EUR and were considered very cheap, but that time will not compare to what is coming.
Due to tablets, some of which sell for under $200 / €200, laptops have had to make modifications and, whenever possible, cut down on the price.
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30 April 2013
08:26 GMT |
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Chromebooks have still not gained any sort of ground with consumers, though some did warm up to the idea of always-on laptops. That hasn't demoralized laptop makers that much though, not enough to prevent them from planning a new wave of them.
Both ASUS and Acer are preparing laptops with the Google Chrome ope... |
29 April 2013
05:40 GMT |
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Unlike most other tablets, convertible or otherwise, Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix was made with educational pursuits in mind.
That is why its commercial availability is not starting in the retail channel, but at the Seton Hall University in the US.
Originally, the dockable Windows 8 tablet was supposed to start s... |
24 April 2013
10:09 GMT |
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PC sales are flagging. Everyone knows this by now, and it's all the fault of tablets and smartphones. HP thinks it can turn things around though, and intends to use Leap Motion's 3D motion control technology to make it happen.
Touch support is something that analysts and PC vendors alike believe will beco... |
18 April 2013
04:39 GMT |
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Over the past month we've learned that there is a good chance of ultrabooks dropping to under $500 / €500 in price, but that doesn't mean expensive ones will disappear, as Toshiba has just proven.
Much to the dismay of society, ultrabooks started out as very expensive products, which meant they delivered ... |
17 April 2013
08:46 GMT |
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In the fourth quarter of the year (2013), Intel should be ready to release a new generation of Atom central processing units, one that will open a new set of options for laptop makers.
Sure, ultrabooks and notebooks will use Haswell-based Core-series chips (June-bound), and Pentium/Celeron, but prices will still sta... |
17 April 2013
04:09 GMT |
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The company name “Eurocom” doesn't crop up on the laptop market as often as, say, ASUS, Samsung, Acer, Dell and HP, but that's not because its products have issues, but because Eurocom only makes high-performance Mobile Workstations and Mobile Servers.
The latest two products to leave its labs... |
17 April 2013
03:45 GMT |
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With ultrabooks basically commandeering the high-price laptop market, “normal” laptops have dropped in price to the point where they ship for the same as what netbooks used to, at one time.
Dell's Latitude 3330 is a perfect example of that: a laptop with a price of $419 / 319 Euro.
Measuring 13.3 i... |
16 April 2013
09:07 GMT |
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It seems that every week we learn something more of what is in store of the touch-based laptop market, or what analysts or companies expect from that segment, but this may be the most ambitious view yet.
Sources from the upstream supply chain, which Digitimes has contacted, have painted a very promising picture of ... |
16 April 2013
04:34 GMT |
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Samsung formally introduced the Series 9 Premium ultrabook back in March, but the product didn't start selling right away. Only now have shipments begun to be carried out, as revealed by a press release.
Series 9 Premium is closer to the core concept of an ultrabook than, say, the VivoBook S500, which has a la... |
12 April 2013
02:25 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may be more often talked about, as a sort of new generation of laptops, but normal notebooks still have their advantages, and it's not like they weigh all that much in the end. And yet, the ASUS VivoBook S500 is something that can be called both ultrabook and “normal” notebook, if only ... |
11 April 2013
06:05 GMT |
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Naturally, if brand vendors experience a huge increase in laptop sales, the companies that actually manufacture them will benefit too.
Notebook sales grew 20% in March, with HP, Lenovo and Dell being the most successful.
What many people might not know is that those companies don't actually manufacture their... |
10 April 2013
08:56 GMT |
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Yesterday we said that ultrabooks would start having touch by default from the third quarter of 2013 onwards, and that the subsidies from Intel and decreased licensing fees from Microsoft wouldn't help as much as we'd like. Now, however, we can safely say that, while ultrabooks do have size and shape to j... |
10 April 2013
08:17 GMT |
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One of these days, people won't really know anymore what the difference between ultrabooks and tablets is, because it seems like even the former are adopting the idea of keyboard docks. That is to say, while tablets mostly sell with keyboard docks, or can use one sold separately, ultrabooks have begun to use th... |
10 April 2013
05:30 GMT |
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Yet another rumor comes today from the infamous DigiTimes which claims that Apple is preparing to roll out new MacBooks in the second quarter of 2013. Apple has overestimated the success of its 13-inch MacBook Pros in 2013, “[as] the device's actual sales turn out to be weaker than expected, leaving the c... |
9 April 2013
10:46 GMT |
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Having already heard about the plans to include touch support on all notebooks, learning that ultrabooks would follow the same path hardly surprises us.
Indeed, one might argue that it would have been strange for ultrabook makers not to turn touch support into a standard feature by the end of the year.
Especially w... |
9 April 2013
10:46 GMT |
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Now that the first ARM Cortex-A57 64-bit processor has been taped out, we can look forward to laptops based on the ARMv8 64-bit capable architecture.
There hasn't been any official word on the likelihood, or even the mere possibility, of such a device coming out. Not recently anyway.
Fortunately, the rumor m... |
2 April 2013
09:18 GMT |
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VIZIO has just made the official introduction of four new laptops, two in 14-inch form factor and two measuring 15.6 inches in diagonal.
They are marketed under the Touch Thin + Light brand, thanks to their touchscreens and very thin form factors. They are essentially Ultrabooks really.
The 14-inch Touch Thin + Lig... |
29 March 2013
09:23 GMT |
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Every once in a while, a product type will become so popular that a sudden surge in demand and, thus, production will cause material and component shortages.
Touch-enabled notebooks are having this effect on laptop developers and manufacturers.
Back in 2012, touch-based notebooks accounted for less than 10% of the ... |
28 March 2013
12:00 GMT |
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There was a time when $750 / 750 Euro was the “sweet spot” for the ultrabook market, but now that there actually are ultrathin laptops bearing that price, people are looking forward to further cuts.
Not too long ago, few dared to think that ultrabooks would ever reach the price of $599 / 599 Euro.
Intel... |
27 March 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Laptops are handy things, but they aren't exactly harmless, not when you're sitting in a chair or lying on a bed. Usually, it makes it necessary to hunch forward in order to see the screen well.
Obviously, this is not good for your health, just like keeping your knees half-bent when lying on your back gets... |
27 March 2013
06:57 GMT |
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In addition to the Ativ Smart PC Pro 700T Windows 8 tablet PC, Samsung has officially released the Series 9 Premium Ultrabook.
Larger than the Ativ Smart PC Pro 700T (13.3 inches versus 11.6 inches), it also has a higher price: $1,899.99 / 1,468-1,899.99 Euro.
A rather off-putting sum, to be sure, but this is Samsu... |
25 March 2013
10:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has just scored another important win, as the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust based in the United Kingdom has decided to deploy Windows To Go and, thus, avoid purchasing new laptops. The organization has already tested the solution during the Olympic Games and decided that Windows To Go is a much mor... |
22 March 2013
16:01 GMT |
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Chromebooks haven't been the rave of the media, but they haven't been overlooked either. Whenever HP, Acer or Samsung launched one, reports were written and statements were made.
Sadly, even with active promotion, the laptops failed to make a dent in the existing notebook industry.
Whether because of the ... |
19 March 2013
12:21 GMT |
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Lenovo still wants to become the top supplier of PCs in the world, and it can't just rely on HP's flagging business, hence the changes made to the ThinkPad series of mobile personal computers.
The ThinkPad line of laptops is as suited for normal consumers as it is for business/enterprise customers. It is,... |
18 March 2013
04:59 GMT |
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As Dell strives to get that troublesome private deal closed, it has to cut corners and make the best of the sources of revenue it still has, something that apparently isn't going very well if a certain report is true.
According to Digitimes, the company has begun demanding price cuts from upstream component su... |
14 March 2013
10:13 GMT |
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We suspect that notebook makers will start introducing Richland-based laptops sooner rather than later, now that the chips are finally out, and we figured people would appreciate a rundown of the special perks the APUs bring.
There are six main advantages that notebooks and ultrabook-like laptops (Intel has the ter... |
12 March 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Citizens of North America can be glad to hear that a new ultrabook is now up for sale in the region, one that actually doesn't cost all that much, not in its most basic form at least.
Indeed, the VivoBook S500, as the company calls it, has a starting price of $699, which will likely become 699 Euro on the Old ... |
12 March 2013
03:25 GMT |
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Another week, another shipment forecast comes out. This time we are looking at the expectations for the month of March on the notebook market. While ASUS is expecting a rather modest 1.1 million notebooks this month, Acer is hoping for 2.7 million, while HP thinks it will scrounge up 2 million. Compared to February... |
8 March 2013
09:47 GMT |
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Google has announced its new Chromebook Pixel lineup a couple of weeks ago and it seems that Linus Torvalds is a big fan of the small notebook.
Linux Torvalds stated on Google+ that he is now the proud owner of a Pixel Chromebook and he enjoys it immensely.
“Hey, I've joined all the cool kids in having... |
7 March 2013
10:50 GMT |
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Fujitsu's Lifebook E have the business market well in hand, and by that we mean the mid-range and high-end segments. The company also has a low-end laptop up for order though, or will soon start shipping it.
Called LifeBook AH562, it has a screen of 15.6 inches with a native resolution of only 1,366 x 768 pixel... |
5 March 2013
08:08 GMT |
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The trade show in Hannover, Germany has started, which means that companies are officially introducing and exhibiting their latest creations. What we have here is a trio of laptops from Fujitsu.
The three notebooks are called Lifebook E733, Lifebook E 743, and Lifebook E753. Together, they make up the Lifebook E Se... |
5 March 2013
07:35 GMT |
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It was bound to happen sooner or later, but most people were banking on later: Seagate will give SSDs a big push this year but dropping manufacture of a certain type of hard disk drive.
While there are hard disk drive units with platter speeds of 10,000 rotations per minute, they are rare, and expensive.
HDDs of 7... |
1 March 2013
02:11 GMT |
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Touch input has become a sort of normal part of PCs now that Windows 8 has come out, but it might not last for long.
Leap Motion has a certain technology that lets PC owners control the computer without touching the screen.
Here we could be cheeky and say mice and keyboards do that too, but we won't.
Inste... |
27 February 2013
08:58 GMT |
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Ultrabooks aren't all consumer products, though the majority of them definitely think of convenience and portability before other things. Dell's XPS Developer Edition is an example of the unusual.
Dell didn't launch this particular laptop today. Instead, the XPS Developer Edition was released months ... |
22 February 2013
09:42 GMT |
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As far as laptops go, the Series 7 Chronos is one that earned quite a bit of attention when it was introduced during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013), and with good reason, as we've just found out.
The device has been listed on Best Buy. This event has disclosed, or confirmed as the case may be, two es... |
22 February 2013
03:06 GMT |
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With all the tablets that have come out, and the general decline of interest in regular personal computers, notebook shipments have taken a hit.
Now we've learned that the Wintel camp is getting desperate enough that it believes that price cuts might be necessary in order to at least maintain sales levels, if n... |
21 February 2013
08:40 GMT |
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Servers are usually small or very flat systems, often arranged in rack stacks or data centers, but there are exceptions, and the Eurocom Panther 5.0 Server Edition is one of the biggest and, thus, hardest to miss.
Panther 5.0 Server Edition is one of those rare notebook servers that use professional-grade hardware ... |
20 February 2013
05:53 GMT |
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Sega usually makes games, but it looks like the company is trying to grab some attention by working outside its normal boundaries for once. Sega has released four notebooks in Japan, called Sega Light, Standard, High-Spec and Premium. There will be only 50 versions of each mobile PC up for grabs, assuming those int... |
16 February 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Few products have been released over the past week, due to the Chinese Lunar New Year and the apparent lethargy that has spread to the rest of the world.
In order to liven up the times a bit, Intel has posted its newest ultrabook promo video.
The “Deconstruction of an Ultrabook” flick doesn't promo... |
14 February 2013
09:19 GMT |
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We all know that seeing such a powerful company like Microsoft getting involved in the hardware business is not at all good news for the other manufacturers already competing in this particular market, but the Redmond-based technology titan says its partners have nothing to worry about. Peter S. Klein, Microsoft... |
14 February 2013
03:57 GMT |
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