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Intel Next Unit of Computing packs palm-sized power

Chris Davies, Apr 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Intel could take on Raspberry Pi and compact set-top boxes with a new, budget PC, the NUC or "Next Unit of Computing," set to launch in the second half of 2012. Dressed in a 10 x 10 cm demo box, the NUC is a full Core i3/i5 Sandy Bridge computer complete with Thunderbolt, HDMI and USB connectivity, Sweclockers reports, while inside there's a pair of laptop memory slots and a pair of mini PCIe headers. Read The Full Story

LuvBook X ultrabook goes sub-1kg with carbon-fiber

Chris Davies, Apr 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Will extreme lightness be enough to score a win for ultrabooks? That's the strategy Mouse Computer is taking with the LuvBook X, using a carbon-fiber chassis to dip under the 1kg mark despite. One of the relatively rare 11.6-inch models, it runs Sandy Bridge rather than newer Ivy Bridge processors but, as PC Watch discovered, doesn't necessarily suffer in terms of performance. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu refreshes LIFEBOOK laptops with Sandy Bridge

Ben Kersey, Apr 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Intel is poised to launch its desktop and laptop Ivy Bridge processor shortly, but Fujitsu is content not chasing the latest and greatest. The company has refreshed two of its laptops using mobile Sandy Bridge processors, the 15-inch LIFEBOOK AH532 and 14-inch LIFEBOOK LH532. The designs of both laptops have alos been refreshed, with the AH532 seeing a chiclet-style keyboard, and the LH532 gaining a soft touch finish and integrated touchpad into the palmrest. Read The Full Story

Sandy Bridge based Chromebook demoed at IDF Beijing

Ben Kersey, Apr 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

While the Chromebook hasn’t taken off in quite the way Google expected it to, OEMs are still working on them. Samsung demoed a Chromebook at this year's IDF in Beijing that would have an “instant on” boot thanks to new Coreboot code, a Linux-based BIOS replacement that talks to the computers hardware. Why does Coreboot sound so familiar? Just last week there was news that Google added code to Coreboot for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processor support. Is that what was on display at IDF? Read The Full Story

Ivy Bridge chipset detailed: native USB 3.0 and faster PCIe

Ben Kersey, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Intel will be releasing its next iteration of CPUs, codenamed Ivy Bridge, in the coming weeks. While the CPUs won’t be available to purchase for another three weeks, Anandtech has had some hands-on time detailing the improvements and new features of the Ivy Bridge chipset on various motherboards. If you’re looking for performance reviews, you’ll have to hold on a little longer, but there are some interesting tidbits to note from the chipset. Read The Full Story

New code points to possible Ivy Bridge Chromebooks

Ben Kersey, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Currently Google’s line of Chromebooks use Intel’s Atom processor. Chrome OS might be lightweight, but the inclusion of an Atom processor led to sluggish performance in places. CNET reports that Google may be looking to use Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors, as well as the upcoming Ivy Bridge chips in future Chromebooks. Read The Full Story

Lenovo V370 promotions begin with Bruce Lee, Angry Birds, and Zombies

Chris Burns, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Behold the first absolutely wacky advertisement spot for the Lenovo slim notebook V370, complete with no less than Plants vs Zombies characters, Angry Birds, and an epic battle to the death with Bruce Lee! The point this particular spot appears to be trying to get across is that the V370 is both strong and slim, but you wouldn't know it was a commercial for a laptop if you didn't see the first and last 5 seconds of the video. Thus is the way laptops must be promoted in the fact of Ultrabooks, we suppose, now that strength beats down the traditional size and shape of a standard laptop. Read The Full Story

Shuttle XPC SZ68R5 packs super-fast Core i7 into tiny footprint

Chris Davies, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [4]

Compact PC manufacturer Shuttle has outed its latest barebones computer, the Shuttle XPC SZ68R5, featuring Intel's Z68 high-performance chipset along with SSD caching for super-fast boot times and app loading. The 33 x 21.5 x 19 cm chassis can accommodate up to 32GB of DDR3 memory, Core i3/i5/i7 processors and up to four add-on cards, since it has slots for PCIe-x16-2.0, PCIe-x4-2.0, Mini-PCIe-x1-2.0 and mSATA. HTPC duty is made easier thanks to both HDMI and DVI-I ports. Read The Full Story

Intel Sandy Bridge CPU refresh includes i5 and Celeron cores

Chris Burns, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's a brand new set of no less than seven CPUs out on the market announced by Intel today, each of them with a slight modification over the last comparable version of them, with both Core i5 and Celeron units up for sale. Each of these units has been announced extremely silently for one reason or another, most likely because they do not offer major advances over the last wave of comparable cores. Other than the P at the end of the names for two of the three Core i5 units possible meaning a modification to the GPU has been made, not one whole heck of a lot is known about the innards of these products. Read The Full Story

Ivy Bridge-based Xeons a possibility from Intel in the spring

Paul Fang, Jan 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

The Xeon E5 launch earlier this year from chipmaker Intel could be possibly matched by a plethora of Ivy Bridge-based models soon to be released after, based on a tentative processor roadmap. After releasing 18 E5 chips based on the current Sandy Bridge architecture, Intel may be slated to have 11 Xeons arrive in the spring based on the new 2012 design, claimed Digitimes. Billed as Ivy Bridge-H2, these would include "Xeon E3 chips like the E3-1290v2 in bulk costs of $189 to $884, as well as E5s from $192 to $1,440, one of which would be the E5-2470", according to Electronista. Read The Full Story

AMD readying competing “ultrathin” platform to Intel ultrabooks

Paul Fang, Dec 12th 2011 Discuss [5]

In an interview today, The head of AMD Australia and New Zealand, Brian Slattery, revealed that AMD's competing platform to Intel's ultrathin ultrabooks could debut as soon as next month, which pegs it very likely at this year's CES. Dubbing them "ultrathins" (in a possible endeavor to avoid any naming conflicts with the other named microprocessor company), Slattery stated that processors for ultrathin, yet fast computing would be ready soon. and "while the company hasn't said specifically what processors it'll be using, some variant of the Fusion APU, which AMD announced last January, seems likely." Read The Full Story

Dell XPS 14z official

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [1]

Dell has outed its latest notebook, the Dell XPS 14z, a 14-inch notebook that manages to squeeze its 1366 x 768 display into space that would normally only accommodate a 13-inch panel. Set to go on sale in North America on November, and follow on in the UK come November 15, the XPS 14z has a choice of Sandy Bridge Core i5 and i7 processors, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 1GB graphics (with Optimus switching), up to 8GB of DDR3 memory (4GB standard) and a slot-loading DVD burner. Read The Full Story