Tag Archives: ultraportables

Acer Aspire S5 review: is this innovative Ultrabook worth $1,400?

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With dozens and dozens of Ultrabooks on parade, you’d be forgiven if one skinny laptop with an ultra-low voltage processor started to look like the next. Even so, it’s tough to forget the Acer Aspire S5: of all the ultraportables we’ve seen these las…


ASUS Zenbook Prime bares all in teardown treatment

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Lately, ASUS has been all show and no tell, giving consumers a preview of its leaked Zenbook Prime lineup, but no solid U.S. release. So, consumers stateside eager to mark up those sleek ultraportables with fingerprint grease will just have to make d…


Sony’s VAIO T13 Ultrabook coming to the US this month with Ivy Bridge in tow, prices start at $800

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After Sony teased its first Ultrabook at CES, what happened next was a bit anti-climactic: it was announced for the European market… with last-gen, Sandy Bridge processors. Now, though, the company is back with two pieces of good news: the 13-inch …


Acer announces Aspire S7 Ultrabook series with 11.6- and 13.3-inch screens

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Back in October Acer was the first company to release an Ultrabook, and since then it’s added yet another to its collection. Until now, though, the lineup had one glaring omission: a smaller-screened model to complement those two 13-inch PCs. Well, n…


ASUS Zenbook Prime UX21A preview

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More Info ASUS Zenbook UX31 review ASUS Zenbooks to get Ivy Bridge refresh, optional 1080p and backlit keyboards in tow? ASUS Zenbook Primes with 1080p IPS panels and probable Ivy Bridge CPUs are real, coming to Taiwan in June It was …


Lenovo announces the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, a 14-inch Ultrabook with Ivy Bridge, optional 3G and a 1600 x 900 display

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Yes, that laptop you see up there is called the ThinkPad X1 and yes, it’s the successor to the X1 we reviewed around this time last year. But, folks, this isn’t your typical refresh. The X1, once a 13-inch system, has grown up into a 14-inch ultrapor…


Origin PC joins the 11-inch, rebadged gaming laptop party, outs the EON 11-S

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Last week may have drawn to a close, but the march of Clevo news continues. On the heels of Maingear announcing an 11-inch gaming notebook, Origin PC is throwing its own ultraportable into the ring: the EON 11-S. Though this is a new model for the co…


Alexandre Herchovitch dresses up HP Pavilion dm1 with golden doilies, higher sticker price

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Ask the most fashionable folks you know, looking good isn’t cheap — no surprise then, that playing dress up has put a premium on the HP Pavilion dm1′s price tag. Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchovitch has dolled up the ultraportable laptop with a l…


15-inch Samsung Series 9 review (2012)

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Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3A) laptop review Samsung unveils redesigned Series 9 laptops with 13- and 15-inch displays, starting at $1,399 Spotted: the elusive 15-inch Samsung Series 9Before there were Ultrabooks, there was the Samsung Series 9. …


HP Envy 14 Spectre review

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In a previous life, the HP Envy 14 was a laptop’s laptop: a 5.69-pound slugger with an optical drive, discrete AMD graphics and a battery that couldn’t last four hours in our battery rundown test. That notebook — one of our favorites in the 2010-2011…