Acer’s S7 and S3 Ultrabooks have been the highlights of their Computex 2013 presence but Acer has also brought a Haswell refresh to its Aspire V5 series notebooks and its V7 Ultrabook.    

At Computex 2013, Sony has now officially revealed the Sony Vaio Pro. The company claims that the 11.6-inch and 13.3 inch Pro are the lightest touchscreen Ultrabooks in their respective categories. Now with the carbon fiber treatment, we’re wondering if the older Z-series will give way to the Pro.

At Computex 2013 Haswell is of course the word on the show floor and Asus has another Ultrabook equipped with Intel’s new chip, this time their Zenbook Touch UX31 LA Ultrabook and Mobilegeeks has had a quick hands on with it.  

Remember that Sony 13-inch slider we said would be based on Haswell? It is. It’s just been made official at Computex.

VR-Zone have just published images of a Sony Vaio Duo 13, minutes before the Sony press conference at Computex. [Happening as we write, stay tuned for updates.] A Sony Vaio Pro 13 has also been shown…

A few surprises have been revealed in Intel’s CPU database updates today. It turns out that some U-Series processors – the ones we expected only to appear in Ultrabooks – will have HD4xxx graphics. Given that Intel had previously said that Ultrabooks will only have GT3 graphics (HD5000 and Iris HD5100) it could mean that mainstream laptops will also have the option of U-Series SoCs and therefore the possibility of smaller mainboards and S0ix support (for Windows 8 Connected Standy.) It’s confusing and we’re trying to get clarification from Intel […]

This looks like it could be a problem for those Ultrabook convertibles or 2-in-1 Ultrabooks that were launching with Ivy Bridge Y-Series processors. Haswell Y-Series refreshes will blow them away with battery life so why would you buy the ‘old’ version now?  The Toshiba Z10T is one of the dockables that could suffer unless pricing is adjusted quickly. The Lenovo 11S (that I think we saw on stage in a Haswell demo today) is another. Moblegeeks have a video below but before that, there’s a little surprise on the GPU […]

Sure, we can all get an Ultrabook to run for 10hrs. I did it myself recently when I put a Samsung through a typing test but how about being online and running web apps? Running the web through a browser is one of the most taxing things you can do to a laptop so seeing 9.5hrs runtime in a MobileMark2012 test is something worth checking out, in 60 seconds with a timelapse video. Haswell is doing the business.