Notebooks

HP Envy 14 Spectre Available for Pre-Order, Minus HD+ Radiance Infinity Display Option

We saw HP’s Envy 14 Spectre at CES 2012. It’s an impressive-looking machine, which HP is touting as a “premium Ultrabook”, which essentially means it doesn’t meet the sub-$1000 pricing requirement for Ultrabooks. Granted, there aren’t yet many Ultrabooks out there that do.

At any…

2011: Year of the Smartphone, PCs Overtaken, Tablets Continue to Gain Ground

According to global shipment number estimates from Canalys, smartphone shipments overtook total client PC shipment numbers for the first time in 2011. The so-called “total client PCs” category includes tablets, netbooks, laptops, and desktops.

Total smartphone shipments in Q4 2011 grew 57% over the same…

AMD’s Next Generation Road Map – Reveals Intent to Execute

In case you missed it AMD is turning over a new leaf with CEO Rory P. Read and with him a road map focused on delivering on promises and bringing products to market.  Lisa Su Senior VP and General Manager of Global Business Units gave…

Acer Has Eye’s For Brazil, 1 Million PCs Hoping for Latin Love

South America has been heating for sometime with projected sales aiming to creep into the same league as China. Acer is looking to grab a piece of that pie and aims to move 1 Million PCs in Brazil. Just yesterday they announced that they were…

Acer to Merge Netbook & Ultrabook Category

Acer had an opening ceremony yesterday and commemorate the beginning of the lunar new year and chairman JT Wang they had a few new years resolutions to announce.  This year Acer will no longer be defending its position in the market and warns that they…

M-GO Digital Locker Brings Media to Multiple Screens

If you’re looking for a content discovery and delivery application that you can use across all of your mobile device, you might want to check out M-GO.  This free application aims to help you manage your media content, whether it is online, on your computer,…

Mirosoft Kinect Sensor Heading to Ultrabooks [Video]

Microsoft announced a desktop version of kinect a few weeks ago and it seems they’ve got a few more tricks up their sleeve with the motion sensing product heading to netbooks and ultraportables as well.
The Daily got to check out a few device s…

Nvidia Keplar GPU Shipping to Ultrabooks

NVIDIA’s latest graphics solutions, Keplar, have started trickling in to OEMs, so we can hopefully see this solution shipping in Ultrabooks and Notebooks in the April-June time period. Nevertheless, the true, large batch of Kepler GPUs will only be sent out at some point around…

Lenovo X130e Budget Friendly 11.6 With Core i3 Now Available

The Lenovo X130e was leaked last month but sadly wasn’t on display at any Lenovo booth that we visited during CES.  This 11.6 inch netbook also gets detailed with a choice of an AMD E300 or E450 APU with AMD Radeon HD graphics or a…

AMD Looking to Trinity to Boost Sales in Q4 2012

AMD released its sales numbers in a call on Tuesday and there were defiantly mixed signals.  AMD has always played second fiddle to Intel and this quarter was no different AMD boasted $1.7 billion in revenues, while Intel had $13.9 billion.
Typically AMD has been…

ASUS B23E 12.5″ Business Notebook Gets Official Product Page

We though we had gotten a look at all of ASUS’ new laptops at CES, but it seems they held back.  News of a 12.5″ notebook has broken and this Ultraportable looks like it’s focused on business. The ASUS B23E is a part of the…

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Refreshed with Celeron Processor

Samsung has updated their Series 5 Chromebook with a few tweaks but most notably with a new CPU moving from an Intel Atom to an old school Intel Celeron. There is no word which Celeron they’ll be using and even the use of that term…

AMD’s Trinity APU Offers Direct X11 Support for Ultraportables

AMD quietly showed their Trinity Platform which they hope will compete in Intel’s Ultrabook category.  In a back room at CES AMD demo’ed what looked like a beefy desktop processor in a large gaming rig, playing a DirectX 11 game on one screen and transcoding…

What Gear We Used to Cover CES 2012

CES is over and we’ve shot over 100 video’s!! We came with a team of 5 people, on NetbookNews.de Sascha & Carsten held things down, myself and Cheryl represented NetbookNews.com and I’m sure you’ve seen his video’s on our YouTube channel, Andjez from TabletBlog.de was…

Toshiba Portégé M930 Convertible 13.3-inch Notebook Hands-On at CES 2012 [video]

At CES 2012, Toshiba showed off a convertible Windows 7 notebook called the Portégé M930 with a pretty interesting articulating hinge to switch between notebook and slate mode.
The M930 is definitely NOT in the Ultrabook range of laptops, weighing in at 4.2 pounds, and…