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Looking for an Ultrabook with Ports? Here’s Six Well Endowed Ultrabooks

Posted on 24 May 2012

Ultrabooks a sleek and slim by design. Unfortunately, thickness often has an inverse relationship with number of ports. For many, the Ultrabook is an attractive possibility, but not entirely practical without a decent set of ports. This is not the case for all Ultrabooks, however, and here are six solid suggestions if you need a good portfolio of ports on your Ultrabook.

What People Want in an Ultrabook. Stats and Poll.

Posted on 24 May 2012

We’ve been running the Ultrabook buying advisor for a few months now and one of the features we’ll be looking at are the analytics (anonymous of course) that come out of it.  Larovo (the company that provides this engine) have kindly sent over a few stats for us to check out. Note: I’m working closely with Larovo right now to integrate our product database into their ‘engine’ and it’s working well. They have a crowd funding round in Germany that you should check out if you’re in that area. Firstly, […]

Windows 8 Release Preview Likely to Coincide With Touchscreen Ultrabooks at Computex — Dell XPS 13 Refresh Could Include a Touchscreen

Posted on 23 May 2012

Microsoft and Intel have made it no secret that they want to bring touchscreen computing to Windows and the x86 platform. The Windows 8 Release Preview will be made available in the first week of June, the same week that the annual Computex technology fair is being held in Taipei. The timing is unlikely coincidental. We’re likely to see the debut of market-ready touchscreen Ultrabooks running the Windows 8 Release Preview at Computex, a new Ultrabook from Dell could be among them.

Battery Life and Efficiency Review – Lenovo U300S

Posted on 23 May 2012

It’s time for some extreme testing. Seriously, skip to the summary if you just want to know if the Lenovo U300s has good, average or poor battery life. Stay with us if you want to learn more about how efficient this neat little Ultrabook is. We’ve completed a suite of tests here that we hope gives you an idea of how the battery life would work out for your use case. In summary we were a little disappointed in the Lenovo U300s we have here. Background power usage is much […]

ASUS Zenbook Prime UX21A is the “epitome of Ultrabook perfection” – Anandtech

Posted on 23 May 2012

Yesterday we saw the first review of the next-gen Asus Zenbooks. The Zenbook Prime UX31A impressed Laptop and impressed us too with a great set of improvements that brings the Zenbook Prime right up into near-perfect Ultrabook territory. Today we’ve got Anandtech giving us a similar story about the 11.6” ASUS Zenbook UX21A. If you have any interest at all in Ultrabooks or ultrathins or even netbook-sized devices, read this review…

Gigabyte X11 to launch 31st of May as “Lightest notebook on Earth”

Posted on 23 May 2012

I reviewed the X11 last month. It was good. It wasn’t the Gigabyte X11 though! That will launch on May 31st and will undoubtedly be shown off at Computex Taipei just days later. Inside sources had already tipped me off on this one but Gigabyte seem to be keeping quiet on information because this media invite is all we have to go on right now. Source: Ubergizmo Interestingly Gigabyte don’t mention Ultrabook here so keep an open mind. Smartbook or an Atom-based notebook are also within the scope of this […]

CZC Tech U116T Ivy Bridge Ultrabook w/ Detachable Keyboard to be on Display at Computex

Posted on 22 May 2012

We just dug up an interesting product from Chinese manufacturer CZC Tech. The U116T is an 11.6″ Ultrabook with a detachable keyboard. Naturally, all of the essential computing parts are thus contained within the screen itself, leaving the keyboard as a productivity add-on (and extra battery) for when you want to get desk work done. Pop the screen off of the keyboard and you’ve got a lightweight tablet for couch-surfing. With Windows 7 I wouldn’t be very interested, but with Window 8’s enhanced touch functionality just around the corner, the […]

Dell Readying Latitude 6430u Business-Ultrabook, May Come in Two Sizes

Posted on 22 May 2012

There doesn’t appear to be any official word yet, but Tweakers.net (translated) appears to have gotten their hands on info and photos of a forthcoming business-Ultrabook from Dell, the Latitude 6430u, which will have a 14″ screen, removable battery, changeable RAM, and more. This isn’t a huge surprise given the success that Dell has reported with the XPS 13 Ultrabook.

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