If Intel has its way, most laptops will eventually be Ultrabooks, which if you strip away the marketing jargon simply refers to slim and light machines with long battery life and enough processing power to watch Netflix and play …
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Cinq Brings an Extra Screen to Laptops for $249
Once you’ve got a dual-monitor setup at your desk, it’s hard to go back to single-screen computing. In other words, using a laptop, with its one measly screen, stinks.
Fortunately, Sideline is on the case with its Cinq companion monitor, a portable secondary screen that clips to any laptop and runs on USB power, using DisplayLink. …
IDF Preview: Can UltraBooks Save the PC Industry?
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
This week, I will join around 5,000 others who will head to San Francisco to attend Intel’s Developer Forum. For Intel and much of the PC industry …
Eight New Tablets and Ultrabooks You Should Know About
Tech companies have been flexing their design muscles at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week, trying to prove that Apple’s not the only one that can make ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops and tablets. Turns out that these PC makers can out-slim the iPad and the MacBook Air after all. They just needed Apple to start the fire. Here’s a …
‘GScreen Spacebook’ Fits Two Big Screens into One Big Laptop
Dual-screen computing junkies may finally have a portable solution in GScreen’s Spacebook, a laptop with two screens that’s now available for pre-order. Although I’ve yet to see it up close, I’m already terrified by this monstrosity. The main attraction is a pair of 17.3-inch displays that slide into a side-by-side view, sitting in a …
The Race to Beat the MacBook Air Is On
Laptop heavyweight HP may soon try to take on Apple’s MacBook Air with an ultra-thin notebook of its own.
The laptop would be part of a new category of PCs that Intel is calling “Ultrabooks,” measuring less than an inch thick and selling for under $1,000. According to DigiTimes’ unnamed sources, HP’s early entrant would use Intel’s Core
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World’s First No-Glasses 3D Laptop Arrives Next Month
I’m still probing for the point of three-dimensional legerdemain as a grumbler and entertainment snob who’ll skirt the 3D versions of most things (especially movies), but if you’re impressed by what seems increasingly like a fad, you can lay hands and eyeballs on the world’s first no-glasses 3D laptop for just north of $2,000 next …
When All You Want Is the Web: Google ‘Chromebooks’ Are Here
Google’s big bet on web-only laptops has now been fully realized with the consumer availability of Chromebooks. There are two models—one from Acer and one from Samsung—each available either with a 3G cellular connection built-in or as lower-priced Wi-Fi-only versions.
The Acer AC700 starts at $350 for the Wi-Fi version, with the …
If Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer, What About Laptops?
Cell phones are “possibly carcinogenic”? Potentially brain-cancer-causing? Comparable to pesticides and the stuff your car spits out? So sayeth the World Health Organization? The reputable science-minded subsidiary of the United Nations?
Bummer. Thank goodness I use ear buds, and don’t talk on the phone much—though when on the go, I …
Dell’s Macbook Air Rival Coming Soon
The Macbook Air rivals are coming.
It started with Samsung’s Series 9, a pair of ultra-thin laptops cased in aircraft-grade materials and running on Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge platform. As you might expect, pricing caused a wince at $1,200 for an 11-inch model and $1,650 for a 13-inch model.
Next up is Dell, which will do its best …
Two Minute Video: Samsung Takes On the MacBook Air
This 13-inch Samsung Series 9 notebook I have here is a sexy slab, my friends. It tips the scales at 2.88 pounds thanks to Samsung’s use of aircraft-grade “Duralumin” which is apparently twice as strong as aluminum.
The backlit keyboard is one of the best I’ve used and the computer itself feels like it’s generally in hyperdrive—it …
Two Minute Video: Acer’s Dual Screen, No Keyboard Laptop
The $1,300 Acer Iconia laptop is certainly unique. The machine features two 14-inch touchscreens instead of the tried and true screen-and-keyboard combination, while retaining the same form factor as a standard laptop.
The bottom touchscreen is home to the Acer Ring, which is activated by touching all five fingers to the glass. …