HP’s new line of 14 and 15.6 inch ultraportable laptops come in two flavors. The HP Envy 4T and Envy 5T will be available as ultrabooks with Intel processors, or “sleekbooks” with AMD processors. No matter which processor you get, the case design will remain the same and the laptops will be about the same size and weight. It’s just…
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There are no launch dates or prices yet, but HP executives have officially confirmed that the company will bring Windows 8 tablets to market later this year. The tablets will also include HP’s cloud solution that will let users store data online and synchronize files between multiple devices. This doesn’t come as a big surprise. HP CEO Meg Whitman said…
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BigDeals is offering one of the best prices I’ve seen for a Motorola tablet, J&R has one of the best prices I’ve ever seen on any Android 4.0 tablet, and Amazon Wireless is offering pre-orders of the HTC Evo 4G LTE for $50 less than Sprint is charging. Here are some of the day’s best deals on mobile devices and accessories….
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The MSI Wind U270 notebook is a thin and light laptop with an 12 inch display and AMD processor. Last year’s model came with a 1.65 GHz AMD E-450 dual core processor and 6320 graphics. Now MSI is introducing a new model with a slightly faster model with a 1.7 GHz AMD E2-1800 chip and Radeon HD 7340 graphics. The…
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Starting on May 16th, 2012 you’ll no longer be able to use the US Postal Service to ship any item overseas if it contains a lithium-ion battery. That includes most recent laptops, tablets, and phones. Fast Company reports that new Postal Service regulations are a response to two airplane crashes which have been attributed to exploding batteries. You can still…
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Project Sputnik is a six month experiment Dell is undertaking to design a notebook running open source software aimed at developers. While there’s no Sputnik laptop available for purchase yet, Dell has started by creating a custom build of Ubuntu 12.04 Linux designed to run on the company’s XPS 13 ultrabook. You can download the disk image and try it…
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Microsoft is set to launch Windows 8 this fall. That may be good news or bad, depending on what you think about the new Metro user interface, Windows Store, and Windows RT for tablets and other computers with ARM-based processors. But since most PCs sold later this year will ship with Windows 8, you may wonder whether it’s a good…
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Small notebooks are nothing new. They were around long before netbooks or ultrabooks hit the scene. They just carried a much higher price tag than their modern equivalents… and they became a lot harder to find once netbooks started selling for $400 or less, convincing shoppers that small notebooks should be cheaper than their 15.6 inch cousins, not the other way…
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Japanese PC maker NEC is introducing its first ultrabook. The NEC LaVie Z is a 2.2 pound notebook with a 13.3 inch display and a magnesium alloy case. It’s due out in Japan this summer. NEC isn’t sharing any details about the processor, storage, screen resolution, or much of anything else. But if the summer launch schedule is anything to…
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The Asus PadFone is an Android smartphone with a 4.3 inch display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, and a whole slew of optional accessories — including a tablet dock that converts the phone into a 10 inch tablet, and a keyboard dock that transforms it into an Android laptop. You can’t find the PadFone in the US yet, but…
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The Asus Transformer line of Android tablets gets a lot of attention — and for good reason. These tablets have fast processors, slim designs, and offer the option of connecting a keyboard dock for extended typing sessions — and extended battery life. Every member of the Transformer family can also now run the latest version of Google’s Android operating system….
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Ultrabooks are thin and light laptops that use Intel processors and solid state disks (or solid state cache) to offer quick boot and resume-from-sleep speeds, among other things. They’re pretty nice little machines, but when the first ultrabooks hit the streets in late 2011 they tended to have prices close to $1000. Over the last few months we’ve seen prices…
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