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Origin PC 17.3-Inch EON17-X Notebook Packs Intel Sandy Bridge-E CPUs

Just a few days after Celvo officially announced the high-performance P270WM notebook design, Origin PC has joined the ranks of Eurocom and Maingear by introducing its own version of Clevo’s Sandy Bridge-E equipped laptop. Origin PC’s creation was released into the same EON17 series as its predecessor, b...

13 February 2012
10:41 GMT

Acer Aspire One D270 Cedar Trail Netbook Goes on Sale

Listed by Amazon US since the middle of January, Acer’s Aspire One D270 netbook, based on Intel’s recently announced Atom Cedar Trail platform, just went on sale in both Europe and the US, with pricing starting at 259 EUR (about $343). Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from all the...

10 February 2012
03:18 GMT

Asus X101CH Cedar Trail Netbook Arrives in Europe, Priced at €299 ($398 US)

Just as it promised during this year’s CES fair, Asus has begun shipping the X101CH netbook based on the Intel Cedar trail Atom platform internationally, the laptop having just arrived in Europe with prices starting at 299 EUR (about 398 US). The netbook was listed by various online retailers around Italy, but...

9 February 2012
07:12 GMT

HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook Now Available for Pre-Order [UPDATE]

Just as it promised during CES 2012, HP has added the Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook to its website today, enabling customers in the US to pre-order this glass-covered laptop for $1,399.99 (about 1,100 EUR). Built as a “premium Ultrabook,” the Spectre certainly features a daring design that uses a special scr...

8 February 2012
10:44 GMT

Eurocom Intros Panther 4.0 Notebook, Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Meet Nvidia’s GTX 580M

Eurocom, a company well renowned for its high-performance notebooks and mobile workstation, has just announced that it updated its high-end Panther series laptops to support Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E processors. Just as before, Eurocom based its mobile workstation on a Clevo design, the P270WM, which includes an ...

8 February 2012
03:17 GMT

Maingear’s Updated Titan 17 Notebook Sports Sandy Bridge-E CPUs

Maingear has recently announced an updated version of the Titan 17 desktop replacement, which swaps the LGA 1366 processors used in the previous model with Intel’s new LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. The Titan 17 notebook is based on the Clevo P270WM design, which can be configured to feature Intel’s high-p...

7 February 2012
17:21 GMT

Clevo Outs P270WM Monster Notebook with Intel Sandy Bridge-E CPUs

Clevo’s venerable X7200 notebook has now gotten a little bit more powerful, since the company has recently announced the introduction of the P270WM based on Intel’s enthusiast-oriented X79 platform using Sandy Bridge-E processors. Clevo’s desktop hardware-based behemoth has been sporting the Intel ...

7 February 2012
06:11 GMT

Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic & Others to Build Cheaper Ultrabooks

Wanting to venture into the Ultrabooks market, Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic and a series of other smaller companies have reportedly contracted Taiwanese laptop makers to build such ultrathin notebooks for them, which could help drop the starting prices of these devices to $599 (456 EUR). According to unnamed sources cite...

6 February 2012
14:01 GMT

Toshiba Intros Its First 14-Inch Ultrabook, the Satellite U840

Toshiba has just announced the introduction of the company’s first 14-inch Ultrabook computer, dubbed the Satellite U840, which comes as the successor of the popular Portege Z830 released in the second part of last year. Design wise, the new Satellite U840 takes a lot of its cues from its predecessor, but at t...

6 February 2012
10:01 GMT

Asus Prepares U47 Ultra-Portable Notebooks with Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs

In the second quarter of 2012, Asus prepares to introduce a couple of new U-Series ultra-portable notebooks based on Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge processors, which will feature an improved design and better specs than their predecessors. The two notebook models that the company plans to release are the Asus U47...

6 February 2012
05:11 GMT

MSI’s Wind U180 Is the Company’s First Intel Cedar Trail Netbook

Still supporting netbook computers, MSI has just made official the Wind U180 10.1-inch entry-level laptop, which is the company’s first such device to be based on Intel’s Cedar Trail platform launched at the end of last year. MSI markets the Wind U180 an ultrathin and ultralight netbook since it features...

3 February 2012
05:31 GMT

Eurocom Leopard 2.0 Notebook Supports Both SLI and CrossFireX Setups

Well known for their high performance laptops, Eurocom has just updated its product line with the 18.4-inch Leopard 2.0 mobile workstation, that comes equipped with Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and supports dual GPU setups. As all of Eurocom's products, the new Leopard is fully configurable. Users have...

2 February 2012
04:30 GMT

HP Mini 110 and Mini 210 Cedar Trail Netbooks Will Start at 279 EUR ($367)

Intel’s Cedar Trail platform might not have the power of AMD’s E-series APUs, but this hasn’t stopped HP from using it in order to refresh their Mini 110 and Mini 210 netbook computers. As many of you surely know by now, Intel’s Cedar Tail platform comprises the Cedarview processors and the N...

31 January 2012
12:01 GMT

Kinect in Windows 8 Laptops Is Real, Report Claims

After registering an impressive success with Kinect on Xbox, and the over 18 million sold units are proof of that, Microsoft is gearing up for making a splash with Kinect for Windows as well. Back in January, the company announced plans to release Kinect for Windows SDK as soon as tomorrow, and to have the sensor ...

31 January 2012
10:03 GMT

Asus G55 and G75 ROG Notebooks with Ivy Bridge CPUs Will Arrive in April

Asus has recently unveiled that the fifth generation of its Republic of Gamers (ROG) G55 and G75 notebooks are scheduled to arrive in April this year, featuring Intel’s upcoming mobile Ivy Bridge processors. The two notebooks haven’t suffered too many changes compared to their predecessors as far as thei...

30 January 2012
10:28 GMT

Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p 14-Inch Laptop Sports Quad-Core Intel CPU and Discrete GPU

Lenovo keeps expanding its notebook lineup with new models, the latest offering to be added by the company to its Website being the IdeaPad Y470p 14-inch laptop which despite its compact size features a top of the line configuration. Housed in a case less than one inch thick, the Y470p packs a quad-core Intel Sandy ...

30 January 2012
04:28 GMT

Windows 8 Laptops to Pack Kinect Sensors

Kinect has already been announced for Windows PCs, yet it appears that some vendors out there might be set to take it to a brand new level. Rumor has it that ASUS is considering the release of a Window 8-powered laptop that would also include the Kinect sensor inside. In fact, The Daily claims that they have alr...

27 January 2012
10:54 GMT

Samsung Series 5 Ultrabooks Up for Pre-Order from Amazon and J&R

Amazon and J&R have both recently started taking pre-orders for Samsung’s Series 5 Ultrabooks that was announced by the Korean company at the end of last year. Two models are listed right now, one featuring a 14-inch screen and an optical drive for $949.99 (728 EUR) while the other sports a more compact 13.3-i...

27 January 2012
06:11 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e Available for Pre-Order Starting at $429 (327 EUR)

Announced in December 2011, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X130e educational notebook has now become available for pre-order from the company’s website with shipments being expected to begin on February 10. Since the X130e is built especially for education, Lenovo concentrated on making its new ThinkPad tougher than ...

27 January 2012
02:49 GMT

Panasonic’s 10.1-Inch Series Notebook Pack Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs

Panasonic is getting ready to release a couple of refreshed J10 mini notebooks in the Japanese market which pretty much resemble their predecessors, but arrive with slightly improved hardware specs to make them even faster than before. The J10 series is an interesting appearance on the notebook market since these li...

26 January 2012
06:10 GMT

Alienware 2012 Notebook Lineup Reportedly Revealed

Later this year, Alienware plans to refresh three of its most popular gaming notebooks out there, the M14x, M17x and M18x, to sport Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors as well as discrete graphics cards from the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and Nvidia GTX 600 series. Making our way from top to bottom, the first notebook t...

25 January 2012
18:11 GMT

DosPara Galleria QF580 Gaming Notebook Packs Nvidia GTX 580M Graphics

DosPara, a Japanese PC maker specialized in high-end gaming desktop and notebooks, has just updated its laptop lineup with a new model, dubbed the Prime Note Galleria QF580 which is powered by Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 580M GPU. The new notebook is housed inside a sober black chassis with an angular design that som...

25 January 2012
06:41 GMT

Acer Aspire One AOD270 Cedar Trail Netbook Listed by Amazon

The recent CES 2012 fair has witnessed the arrival of an important number of Intel Cedar Trail-powered netbooks, and some of these have already been listed by online retailers, including Acer’s Aspire One AOD270, which has just popped up on Amazon. Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from ...

17 January 2012
11:17 GMT

Asus Eee PC X101CH and 1025C Netbooks Now Available for Pre-Order

Just one week after being officially unveiled at the CES 2012 fair, Asus’ Eee PC X101CH and Eee PC 1025C notebooks, based on Intel’s Cedar Tail platform, are now available for pre-order in the US with prices starting at $269 (roughly 210 EUR).For this much money, you will be able to get your hands on the ...

17 January 2012
10:46 GMT

AMD’s Alternative to Intel’s Ultrabook Platform Will Be Up to 20% Cheaper

In 2012, AMD plans to start a new battle with Intel on the ultra-thin notebook front where it will release its own equivalent platform that is said to enable laptop makers to build similar systems with up to 20% lower price tags.AMD calls these notebooks “Ultrathins,” and according to DigiTimes they are d...

17 January 2012
06:03 GMT

Asus Prepares Ivy Bridge Notebooks with Nvidia Kepler Graphics for April 2012

Asus is working on updating its notebook portfolio with a series of new models based on Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge processors which will be paired together with graphics cards based on Nvidia’s upcoming Kepler GPUs.At least three such models will be released by the Taiwanese maker, these covering anythin...

14 January 2012
13:31 GMT

CES 2012: CTL Debuts Two New Intel Cedar Trail-Powered Classmate PCs

CTL hasn’t announced any new Classmate computers for quite a while now, but at this year’s CES fair the company returns to the education market with a pair of new child friendly devices based on Intel’s new Cedar Trail platform. Specs wise, the two CTL systems are almost identical, but use differen...

13 January 2012
14:41 GMT

CES 2012: Toshiba Shows Off Qosmio F750 Glasses-Free 3D Notebook

Toshiba, one of the most important companies behind glasses-free 3D technology, has demoed at this year’s CES fair the Qosmio F750 15.6-inch laptop that can display stereoscopic 3D images without the need of special glasses.The most important addition brought by Toshiba to the Qosmio F750 is of course the paral...

13 January 2012
05:41 GMT

CES 2012: Glass Covered HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook Makes Its Debut

Last week’s video teaser of the Envy 14 Spectre hasn’t revealed too many details about the HP notebook outside of the fact that this will be one thin machine, but fortunately the arrival of CES has brought forward some new info for us to dig out teeth into.Build as being a “premium Ultrabook,”...

12 January 2012
04:24 GMT

CES 2012: Next-Gen Samsung Chromebooks Ditch Atom for Celeron

Chromebooks failed to become as popular as Google wanted, but Samsung won’t give up on this concept and at this year’s CES fair the Korean company has showcased its next-gen Series 5 Chrome OS-powered notebooks. On the outside, there’s little to differentiate these next-gen Choromebooks from their c...

11 January 2012
20:51 GMT

CES 2012: Origin PC Redesigns the EON17-S and EON15-S Gaming Notebooks

Besides the new phase change cooling option introduced for the GENESIS gaming desktop, Origin PC has also announced that Q1 of 2012 will mark the introduction of the redesigned EON17-S and EON15-S gaming notebooks.The EON17-S and EON15-S are some of the most powerful Origin laptops available and are powered by Intel&...

11 January 2012
18:31 GMT

CES 2012: Sony Presents VAIO Ultrabook Concept

Sony is one of the few major notebook manufacturers that so far didn’t launch an Ultrabook laptop of its own, but at this year’s CES fair the company has showcased a concept device that follows Intel’s Ultrabook guidelines.The concept, which was caught on camera by The Verge, was ensconced in a glas...

11 January 2012
06:10 GMT

CES 2012: Dell XPS 13 Laptop Is the Outfit’s First Ultrabook

Dell certainly took its time to come out with an Ultrabook design of its own, but with today’s launch of the XPS 13 the company finally has something to offer its clients searching for an ultra-portable computing solution. Released into the same XPS line as the company’s previous 14z and 15z ultra-thin n...

11 January 2012
02:58 GMT

CES 2012: Cedar Trail-Equipped Asus Eee PC X101CH Netbook Also Debuts

Even though most laptop manufacturers have given up on the netbook concept, Asus keeps pushing new devices into its Eee PC product line and the latest to make its appearance is the ultra-thin X101CH packing Intel’s recently released Cedar Trail platform. The chip used for this netbook is actually the Atom N260...

10 January 2012
09:15 GMT

CES 2012: Samsung Debuts New Series 9 Ultrabooks

Intel deemed 2012 as being “the year of the Ultrabook” and judging by all the ultra-thin notebooks that are announced at CES 2012, from makers such as Acer, Lenovo, LG and now Samsung with its new Series 9 designs, it seems like the chip maker couldn’t be more right. Two models were unveiled today ...

10 January 2012
09:04 GMT

CES 2012: Intel Cedar Trail Makes Appearance in New Asus Eee PC Netbooks

Asus’ Eee PC 1025C series Intel Cedar Trail netbooks have already made it to our news section a few times before CES 2012 started, but the Las Vegas fair marks the official introduction of these laptops in Asus’ product line. Expected to ship in February of this year, Asus’ Eee PC 1025C series actu...

10 January 2012
05:11 GMT

CES 2012: Acer Unveils World’s Thinnest Ultrabook, the Aspire S5

Acer has decided to take this year’s CES by storm, so after the introduction of the 1920x1200 10.1-inch Iconia Tab A700 the company moved into ultra-thin notebook territory where it unveiled that new Aspire S5, the world’s thinnest Ultrabook yet.Standing just 15mm thick (0.59 inches), Acer’s 13.3-in...

9 January 2012
15:11 GMT

CES 2012: Acer Makes the Timeline Notebooks Thinner, Calls Them Ultrabooks

Acer’s Timeline notebook are getting thinner and lighter than ever before with the introduction of the new 14- and 15-inch Ultra models announced by the Taiwanese company during the CES 2012 fair, and which will become available in the first quarter of this year.Both models are built using pretty much the same ...

9 January 2012
10:12 GMT

Lenovo Announces Thunderbolt-Equipped ThinkPad Edge S430 Notebook

Together with its business-centered ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook, Lenovo has also announced today a new 14-inch Edge S430 laptop that is targeting the same market segment but comes with a more advanced set of features.Designed around a 14-inch screen, Lenovo’s creation is powered by the “latest Intel Core&ldq...

5 January 2012
16:01 GMT

Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad X1 Hybrid Laptop Packing Secondary ARM SoC

Earlier today, Lenovo has announced the new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid laptop that was designed to sport a secondary operating system and an ARM-based Qualcomm SoC in order to deliver up to 10 hours of battery life to its users. This system is called the Instant Media Mode, IMM for short, by Lenovo and runs a Linux-based OS ...

5 January 2012
10:53 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook Packs Nvidia Discrete Graphics

Tired of waiting for CES 2012 to open its gates, Lenovo has introduced a new Ultrabook computer called the ThinkPad T430u that has business users in its sight and comes equipped with a discrete graphics card built by Nvidia.This will be available as an option as users can still chose to rely on Intel’s integrat...

5 January 2012
05:45 GMT

MSI’s 15.6-Inch GT685 Gaming Notebook Sports Nvidia GTX 580M Graphics

After yesterday’s release of the GT783 17.3-inch gaming notebook, MSI has announced a new laptop in the GT-series, the GT685, which packs the same Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M graphics card but comes with a smaller 15.6-inch screen.The new notebook is housed inside a chassis that is extremely similar with that of th...

5 January 2012
03:34 GMT

Dell to Revamp Latitude Notebook Line with Four New Models

After months of stagnation, Dell will soon revamp its lineup of Latitude notebooks with four now models that will feature an updated hardware platform and possibly even a new design to make them stand out of the crowd.The new Dell laptop models will be called the Latitude E5430, E5530, E6430 and E6530, the “30&...

4 January 2012
09:42 GMT

Samsung Series 5 Ultrabooks Now Available for Pre-Order in the US

Koreans aren’t the only ones to get their hands on Samsung’s Series 5 Ultrabook models announced at the end of last year, as users in the US now also have the chance of owning such an ultra-thin notebook since they have become available for pre-order from J&R.Two models are listed right now, one featurin...

4 January 2012
05:08 GMT

MSI Launches GT783 Gaming Notebook with Nvidia GTX 580M Graphics

MSI has just announced that the company’s gaming notebook line has received a new addition in the form of the 17.3-inch GT783 laptop that is built around Intel’s Core i7 Sandy Bridge processors and Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce GTX 580M. Weighting in no less than 3.9Kg (almost 8.6 pounds), the GT783 w...

4 January 2012
02:52 GMT

HP Updates Mini 110 and Mini 210 Netbooks to Intel Cedar Trail

Intel’s recently announced Cedar Trail platform has also made it in HP’s Mini 110 and Mini 210 netbooks which can now be equipped with the Atom N2600 and Atom N2800 dual-core processors with Hyper-Threading support.The Cedar Trail platform is comprised of the Cedarview processor and the NM10 chipset, whic...

3 January 2012
08:54 GMT

Asus Intros N45J Mystic Edition Notebook Designed with Green Hornet Star, Jay Chou

Asus and Green Hornet star Jay Chou have joined forces again and this time they came up with a redesigned version of the N Series N45 laptop which is now called the N45J Mystic Edition.Best known in Asia as a singer-songwriter, Jay Chou has tweaked the notebook to sport his signature as well as the cover art from his...

30 December 2011
04:41 GMT

Asus makes Official Intel Cedar Trail Powered Eee PC 1225C Netbook

After being spotted in an online store a little bit more than a month ago, Asus’ Eee PC 1225C netbook powered by Intel’s upcoming Atom Cedar Trail processors was made official by the Taiwanese company who just posted the netbook’s manual online.Notebook Italia has caught a glimpse of this document a...

28 December 2011
16:41 GMT

CTL Intros 14.1-Inch Ubuntu 11.10 Running Notebook

CTL, an Oregon-based company less well known in the laptop market, has just announced the introduction of the 14.1-inch MB40U notebook that is the company’s first such device to run the Ubuntu Linux operating system. The notebook is built around Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors, users having the option of ...

27 December 2011
10:48 GMT

Asus Teases Lamborghini VX6S Cedar Trail Netbook in New Presentation Video

Asus has been showcasing the Lamborghini VX6S at various trade shows and event in the industry for almost six months now, but this Intel Cedar Trail powered netbook has yet to make its arrival until now.However it now seems like we aren’t that far away from its launch, as in order to increase the hype surroundi...

27 December 2011
09:14 GMT


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