Intel's going fast and hard with its pointed design ques for its partner manufacturers, and in at least one model, showing them up entirely. During their Ultrabook CES press conference, they showed off a working model of a former prototype with a transparent trackpad, nicknames the Nikiski. Why a transparent trackpad? Because it allows you to see relevant information in a quasi-mobile interface when the laptop is closed.
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Gigabyte has revealed a new tablet, the S1081, and a convertible notebook, the T1006M, at CES 2012, each running Intel's new Cedar Trail Atom CPUs. The Gigabyte S1081 has a 10.1-inch capacitive multitouch display, 500GB hard-drive (or a smaller-capacity, but bump-proof SSD) and USB 3.0, and can be paired with a Multimedia Docking Station that adds a DVD drive and 2.1 speaker system.
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MAINGEAR outs AMD HD 7970 toting gaming PCs
AMD has launched a new video card, the AMD Radeon HD 7970, and performance PC specialist MAINGEAR has wasted no time in slotting it inside another beastly desktop. The MAINGEAR SHIFT and F131 each offer the new 28nm Radeon as an option, pairing it with up to Intel hexacore Core i7 3.3GHz processors and up to 32GB of DDR3 memory.
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Lenovo IdeaPad S, Z, G and Y Series notebooks debut
Lenovo's IdeaPad ultrabooks are probably its computing stars of CES, but they're certainly not the only consumer-focused notebooks the company has this year. In fact, Lenovo has everything from from "mini laptop" S Series - apparently slotting in-between netbooks and notebooks - through the mainstream Z Series models, budget-friendly G Series, and up to the Y Series multimedia machines. Check out all the details after the cut.
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Lenovo IdeaPad U310 and U410 Ultrabooks revealed
Lenovo has followed Wednesday’s ThinkPad launch with a pair of new ultrabooks targeted at consumers at CES today, the IdeaPad U310 and U410. With 13.3-inch and 14-inch displays respectively, the two new IdeaPads have up to 64GB of SSD storage and/or up to 500GB of HDD storage, promising both speedy resume and boot times together with capacious multimedia space.
Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra: DVD-toting ultrabooks with 8hr battery
Acer's Thunderbolt-toting Aspire S5 isn't the company's only ultrabook of the day; there's also the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra, a pair of 14- and 15-inch models with 8hr battery life. Just 20mm thick, despite packing in an optical drive, the two new Timeline Ultra notebooks run Intel Core processors paired with a range of SSD and HDD options.
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Acer Aspire S5 ultrabook: 15mm thick plus Thunderbolt
Acer has revealed the Aspire S5, apparently the world’s thinnest ultrabook at just 15mm at its thickest point, and offering a high-speed 20Gbps Thunderbolt port. The 13.3-inch ultraportable resumes from standby in 1.5s, Acer reckons, and there’s Acer Always Connect to collect social network and email messages while the Aspire S5 is in standby mode; alternatively, you can remotely wake the notebook from your smartphone.
Intel inks baked-in WiDi deal for smart TV, consoles and STBs
Intel is giving its WiDi technology a shot in the arm, coaxing smart TV and STB chipset manufacturers to include native wireless display support in their chipsets so as to allow Intel-based computer users to squirt video directly across. The silicon company has announced collaborations with Cavium, Mstar Semiconductor, Sigma Designs, Realtek, Wondermedia and others; you may not be familiar with the names, but there's a fair chance your connected TV, cable box or other home entertainment gadget might have one of their chips inside.
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Apple moves in on business equipment through 2013 projects Forrester Research
This week the folks at Forrester have released their Global Tech Market Outlook for both 2012 and 2013, and in this report it would seem that Apple is making such notable inroads on the computer equipment market over the next two years that they’ve rated them the industry’s biggest disruptive force over that time span. In addition, it would seem that this disruption is not only that sales will increase for Apple across such lucrative groups as global business and government purchases of personal computers, but that Wintel PCs and tablet sales in those sectors will begin to change negatively after two positive years of sales to these groups of computer buyers. Could this be the start of Apple taking the global business-based market that for so long has remained solely dominated by Microsoft?
OCZ Deneva 2 mSATA SSDs now Intel approved for ultrabooks
OCZ has announced that its Deneva 2 mSATA SSDs, the 30GB and 60GB models, are now certified by Intel as passing the "White Using" portion of the Smart Response Technology performance benchmark test for ultrabooks. These high performance drives feature faster boot-up and data transfer speeds on a small footprint that's well suited for the myriad of ultrabooks we can be sure to expect this year.
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Google TV ditches Intel for ARM
Google TV is jumping from x86 to ARM-based chipsets, in the hope of reducing power consumption, noise and price of the set-top boxes, after the first generation of the platform failed to set the smart TV world alight. Chipset manufacturer Marvell has announced that its ARMADA 1500 HD “Foresight” SoC will be at the heart of the new Google TV STBs, an HD/3D capable chip that can simultaneously decode two 1080p streams in addition to performing SD-to-HD upscaling.
LG Z330 and Z430 Super Ultrabooks revealed
Ultrabooks have hardly had a chance to get started, and already LG is looking to refine the term with its new Super Ultrabook LG Z330 and Z430 models. Two of the company's new PCs from its CES 2012 line-up, they join a 3D-centric notebook range - though lack 3D themselves - at the Las Vegas show next week. So, you might be asking, what makes an ultrabook "Super"?
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