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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
For several months I used a little Lenovo ThinkPad X220 running Windows 7 and had a great experience - it felt rock solid and responsive, with fantastic battery life. Then I switched to a MacBook Pro, and now that I've gotten used to it, I actually find it more or less a wash between the two (sorry, Apple fanboys).
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Monday, April 2, 2012
The Samsung Series 5 Ultra is the company's first foray into the Ultrabook market (if you don’t count the Series 9, which predates the Ultrabook brand). There's just one problem: It weighs nearly 4lbs, and measures 0.82-inch thick. In other words, this 14-inch laptop is closer to a regular ultraportable than it is to an Ultrabook.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Though not particularly svelte or eye-catching, the Dell Latitude E6220 fits the bill perfectly for a corporate ultraportable laptop. It's fast, it has state-of-the-art components, and it has the warranty and service options that large businesses expect. It also provides battery options that let you travel light or compute for nearly a day, depending on your need.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
The Asus Zenbook UX31E is the Asus answer to Intel's plea to Windows laptop makers to copy the Apple MacBook Air. Asus's super-sleek ultrabook, the Zenbook UX31E, is finally here – and it's gorgeous. With its brushed-aluminum design, it more closely resembles the Apple MacBook Air than other ultrabooks do, and it really does elicit a Zen-like feeling. Throw in an Intel Core i5 processor, Bluetooth 4.0 and a USB 3.0 port, and the Asus Zenbook UX31E is almost – but not quite – perfect.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
If there's a laptop that deserves the moniker "Ultrabook" - a term that Intel introduced (and trademarked) earlier this year for a class of very slim and light laptops - it's the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s. Not because it's faster or beefier than the competition (it's not), but because it actually looks like a thin coffee-table book when closed. It's also the Ultrabook that many in our labs gravitated toward due to its luxuriously minimalist styling and superior input ergonomics. At least they did until they heard it cost $1,595 (£1,221 inc VAT), a price tag that reflects the expense of the U300s's large (256GB) solid-state drive, or SSD.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
The Sony VAIO Z Series refers to a range of ultraportable laptops, priced from £1434, with optional Light Peak external dock for optical disc and added graphics power.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Sony finally revealed all on its Android-based Tablet S Wednesday, announcing the slate, with a 9.4-inch display, will ship in late September with a starting price of $500 for a 16GB model and $600 for the 32GB unit. You'd be wrong to think Sony's Tablet S is a run-of-the-mill iPad lookalike tablet to ignore. Sony's Tablet S shows the consumer electronics giant has not lost its design mojo over the years, and with this first tablet offering Sony infuses originality and flare into a tablet market that desperately needs it. Pre-sale of the Tablet S begins today.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The corporate-oriented HP EliteBook 2560p has all the standard ultraportable goodies, but its real appeal is its exceptional sturdiness. It's built to take a lickin' and keep on tickin' (apologies to Timex).
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Friday, May 27, 2011
The technology press has lumped Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 into a growing category of Macbook Air competitors, but now that I've used one for awhile, I can tell you it doesn't really belong there.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Asus U31JG, designed for urban professionals on the move, boasts a stylish brushed aluminium finish that coats the lid and wraps around the black plastic keyboard. It's not just a fashion statement either: The aluminum trim reinforces the plastic chassis, creating a sturdy ultra-portable laptop that packs enough power to play games and run your presentations while remaining light enough for you to carry on your daily commute.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...
Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...
New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...
Here's a question most of us can probably answer, at least approximately: How many hours do you spend in front of your computer every week? But here's a trickier one: How much of that time do you spend doing productive work, and how much of it do you spend watching cat videos? RescueTime ($9 per month) is an online service that tries to answer this question, and sometimes even succeeds. read more...
With the demise of MobileMe upon us, you’ll need to come up with a new backup solution if this Apple service is your current backup method of choice. If you’re a fan of online, cloud-based backups, then CrashPlan is one to consider. read more...
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