Toshiba may not have the fashionable appeal of Apple, nor the solid reputation of Lenovo, but they do know how to push the envelope. Their Portégé series of ultraportables is already slim, and was the first to offer a 128GB SSD back in 2008; now it’s the first, in the shape of the Portégé R600, to offer a 512GB SSD. Legitimate business tool or shallow one-upmanship? SlashGear decided to find out.
Apple’s MacBook Air envelope advert is probably one of the most iconic pieces of ultraportable branding from the past few years, and it set a bar that new notebooks love to take pot-shots at. Given the striking similarity between the Air and MSI’s X-Slim X340, it seems all too appropriate that the 13-inch notebook should try an envelope test of its own.
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When the MacBook Air first launched, nobody could deny it was physically impressive. Well under an inch thick, it was a visual delight to anybody who saw it. Ironically, any disappointment was saved for the owners themselves: the payoff for those market-besting dimensions was underpowered components and the tendency to overheat. Now, Apple have freshly inflated the Air with new technology, in fact just about everything down to the memory is new. Second time around, have they created the ultimate ultraportable?
The glowing logo, the sleek curves – could it be anything other than a new Apple notebook? Well yes, actually, it could: the steady-handsmanship of a German modder called Florian Gotz, it’s really a Medion Akoya Mini E1210 (a rebadged MSI Wind ) with an Apple logo cut out with a Dremel.
Lenovo have announced an update to their ThinkPad X300, adding a so-far unreleased Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor and two new SSD options. The ThinkPad X301 will be available with Intel’s 1.2GHz U9300 and 1.4GHz U9400 CPUs, both having 6MB L2 cache and 1066MHz FSB, while the X300’s 64GB SSD is replaced by either an 80GB or 128GB version.
Most have probably seen the MacBook Air Manila Envelope sleeves that followed the release of the laptop. This leather version is just a slightly more chic twist to the slightly geeky sleeve.
If you are one of the many people who just spent $1700+ on a MacBook Air and are now so broke Ramen Noodles look like a luxury item, then my pal Vincent Nguyen has got something for you. In his new hit video series “How to make something useful from garbage” he’ll show you how to make a MacBook Air case out of a FedEx shipping envelope.
Well I can’t decide if having a manila envelope laptop sleeve is humorous or taking it too far. I shudder to use the word fanboy, but who else is going to buy this?
After all the usual rumor, intrigue and speculation, another Macworld Keynote comes to a close. It’s been a morning of updates and a few significant launches, with Apple TV, iTunes, the iPhone and the iPod Touch all getting new software, the introduction of $3.99 movie rentals from all of the major studios, Apple’s first NAS in the shape of the Time Capsule and, of course, the super-slim, super-sexy (and already super-controversial) MacBook Air.
The full SlashGear transcript of the Keynote is after the cut, and you can guarantee that we’ll be bringing you all the latest coverage of these new additions and upgrades to Apple’s range over the coming days.
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