Tag Archive for 'ultraportable'
Hang on, surely this isn’t Microsoft putting a new Voodoo Envy in with Apple’s MacBook Air and expecting the two to fight like savage monkeys? I can’t imagine they’d stoop to such cruelty, so I can only think that the Air showed up to see how the new “thinnest ultraportable notebook” measures up. As you [...]
HP has just announced this very sleek Voodoo Envy 133 notebook in Berlin. I have been blissfully happy with my MacBook, which is only a year old. I have never once found a laptop that I have ever considered trading my laptop in for, until I saw this HP.
Over the weekend a whole shed-load of new Lenovo notebook information turned up, including details of upcoming X200, SL, T, and R series machines. The leaked slides give preliminary specs for numerous new models, of which the X200 - which is set to replace the X61 - is perhaps the most interesting. Full run-down after the [...]
Perhaps somebody at VIA forgot to send FIC the OpenBook memo, but the company has just unveiled a new budget ultraportable seemingly based on the previous-gen NanoBook reference design. The notebook is unusual because FIC intend both VIA and Intel powered versions: the CE2A1 will run VIA’s C7 processor while the CW0A1 is based on Intel’s [...]
While most budget ultraportable manufacturers have been jumping up and down, screaming across Computex that we look at their notebooks, Dell has remained all but silent on the subject of its upcoming rival. What we do know, courtesy of an international briefing held in Dell’s Texas headquarters, is that the company has decided on a [...]
Although it can sometimes be tricky telling the difference between all these budget ultraportable notebooks, ECS’ G10IL always had the distinguishing factor of coming with 3G HSPA as standard. While an April launch was originally slated, for one reason or another - an Atom delay, perhaps? - it’s yet to hit the market. Laptop Mag [...]
While at one point it looked like Sony could be the first to sign up for VIA’s OpenBook budget ultraportable reference design and its Nano processor, all is quiet from the Japanese giant; instead, TongFang has the first official use of the Nano CPU we’ve seen. Their Imini S1 Mini-Note couples the 1.2GHz processor with the VIA VX700 chipset, [...]
It’s getting increasingly difficult to feign excitement over budget ultraportables, so suffice to say here’s GeCube’s offering. Based on a 1.6GHz VIA C7-D processor, it has 512MB of DDR2 533 (expandable to 1GB), a 10.2-inch display running at 1024 x 600 and an 80GB hard-drive. Three USB ports, 10/100 ethernet and WiFi b/g is par [...]
If you’re anything like me you’re having trouble keeping up with which budget ultraportable has been released and which hasn’t; MSI’s gleeful announcement of their Wind notebook is next up today, complete with the boast that it’s the first such 10-inch device to feature Intel’s Atom CPU. Of course, ASUS’ Eee PC 1000 also has [...]
Acer’s entrant to the budget ultraportable fray, the Aspire One which we first saw last week, has been made official. As expected, the notebook is based on Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom processor, has an 8.9-inch display (though 1024 x 600 rather than 1024 x 768 as was predicted) and comes as standard with a Linux OS [...]
