Ahead of CES 2012, LG has announced two “Super Ultrabooks” — the Z330 and Z430. Why call them Super Ultrabooks? These ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops supposedly have specs and performance above those of a regular Ultrabook, according to LG.
Both models have metal chassis with a…
The Asus Facebook page put up some photos of the Asus Transformer Prime next to the Zenbook UX21. They look a lot a like. In fact, the Transformer Prime looks like the a baby Zenbook.
The Asus Transformer Prime is 8.3mm thin and weighs 586g,…
Notebook makers who have not yet released Ultrabooks are getting ready to release them at CES 2012. HP, Samsung and Dell are the three to keep a close eye on and we should be seeing new variations of ultrabooks from Acer, ASUS, Lenovo and Toshiba. …
Component manufacturers in Taiwan have already begun supplying parts for Apple’s new 15″ ultra thin notebook. Its still unclear if its going to be a thin Macbook Pro or a larger Macbook Air. The launch of this new Apple MacBook with 15-inch screen is expected…
Fujitsu has released a very high end notebook that is just 2.3mm thicker then Intel’s official definition of an Ultrabook. Those 2.3mm aside its a beautiful 13.3 inch machine with a 1366×768 display measuring 22.3mm thick with a Intel Core i5-2520M or Intel Core i7-2640M…
Acer Chairman JT Wang sees a resurgence of Microsoft software in the coming years, enabling Windows to more effectively take on Apple. Microsoft’s Windows “has not had any achievements within these two markets that can help it gain share,” precipitating a decline in Netbook shipments…
The first Ultrabooks from ASUS and Acer are on the market and they aren’t meeting sales expectations. Sources from the retail supply chain, according to one count each with only expected to sell around 100,000 units by the end of this year. These numbers are…
Apple is apparently about to finish the development of a MacBook Air with 15-inch display. The U.S. company has recently completed work on an important “test component” for the display of the new ultra-thin notebooks, according to a report from Japan. The MacBook Air 15-inch…
I saw this one coming a mile away! I’ve been saying for weeks now that Intel should subsidize the end cost of Ultrabooks for the consumer and apparently the manufacturers agree! Both Acer and Compal are looking Intel to help them drop the price on…
When you’re blazing new trails with an Ultra Thin Category of course the parts necessary are still going to be a little more expensive because they aren’t as common as traditional notebook parts. What this means is that each Ultrabook can only contribute an average…
Liliputing has a great round-up of specs for the 5 ultrabooks that were introduced at IFA 2011. It’s a nice companion article to the one we posted earlier from This is My Next, since that one mainly had video and lots of photos.
These…
It seems that IFA 2011 has ushered in the era of the ultrabooks category of laptops. These Intel-based, ultra-thin, and light laptops hope to lure you away from the MacBook Air with their sleek hardware designs, beefy hardware specs, and, most importantly, pricing competitive with…
Update: Apparently they are shipping! Rather then waiting for stock to get into the warehouse they are shipping directly from the supplier who has stock! Although I’m not sure how much I believe this since my contact at ASUS says it wont start shipping until…
Ultrabooks are rumored to be going up for sale in the fall and we are pretty excited that the PC world is finally going to have a competitor to the MacBook Air. APCMag got to spend a little bit of time with the ASUS UX21…
Looks like HP is looking to come to market first with an Ultrabook before ASUS does in September with their UX21, according to Taiwan component manufacturers. We should be keeping an eye out for two, or more, Ultrabooks from HP using Intel’s Ultra-thin Core i7-2677M…
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