The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga is a Windows 8 convertible tablet-style notebook with an unusual design. Instead of twisting the screen to fold down flat over the keyboard when you’re using the computer in tablet mode, you simply push the screen back nearly 360 degrees until you have a flat computer with the keyboard facing one direction and the screen the…
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When Fujitsu introduced the Lifebook TH40/D last month, the company promised that the tablet PC with a slide-out keyboard would go on sale by the end of June, in Japan at least. But now the company has pushed back the release date indefinitely. It doesn’t look like the computer is being cancelled, but it is being delayed. The Fujitsu Lifebook…
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The upcoming Sony S1 and S2 Android tablets aren’t the only new touchscreen devices the company is working on. Sony also showed off a few photos of a new convertible tablet called the Freestyle Hybrid PC. While there aren’t many details at the moment, the computer appears to have a slide-out keyboard similar to the ones found in the Asus…
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We’ve seen Chinese tablets that look like phones before. But the folks at Shanzhaiben have spotted something a bit different: a netbook that thinks it’s a phone. On paper the computer looks like a typical netbook with a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor, 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, and a 3700mAh…
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Lenovo is launching two new new laptops as part of its ThinkPad X Series line. The new ThinkPad X220 laptop features a 12.5 inch display and Intel Core i-series processor. Lenovo will also offer an X220 convertible tablet style notebook with similar specs. These are just two of the latest 12.5 inch notebooks from Lenovo. The company seems to have…
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Gigabyte has been making mini-laptops with 10 to 12 inch displays for a few years, including some of the first convertible tablet-style netbooks with touchscreen displays. But Gigabyte’s mini-laptops tend to be pricier than the competition, partly because they’re so jam-packed with high performance features. So it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the company plans to introduce new…
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The Dell Inspiron Duo functions both as a standard Intel Atom powered netbook and as a Windows 7 tablet. That’s because the lid has been specially designed so that the screen rests on a hinge inside the upper portion of the laptop. All you have to do is push the screen back 180 degrees and close the lid to turn…
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Acer is showing off a mockup of an upcoming convertible Windows tablet which takes an interesting approach to the question of what to do with the keyboard when you’re not using it. Instead of a slide-out keyboard, or a swiveling keyboard, Laptop Magazine reports that this computer has a detachable keyboard. The idea is that you can remove the tablet…
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I got a chance to check out Samsung’s new Sliding Series convertible tablet today and while I didn’t get to play with the software, the hardware is pretty intriguing. We’ve seen plenty of convertible tablets over the past few years, but most follow the same tried and true design of connecting the display to he keyboard with a swivel which…
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Sure, we’ve already seen full reviews of the upcoming Dell Inspiron Duo convertible tablet. But Johannes at NewGadgets.de has posted one of the first unboxing videos I’ve seen. So if you like to watch someone open up a package filled with shiny new electronics and tear into it like a kid unwrapping a Christmas present, you can check out th…
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The Dell Inspiron Duo is getting a lot of attention these days — not because it’s the first laptop that turns into a tablet when you tilt the screen. It’s because of how you tilt the screen. There’s no swivel letting you tilt the screen left to right like you’ll find on most convertible tablets. Instead, the screen flips inside…
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The Gigabyte T1005 may look a lot like the T1028X I reviewed last year, but under the hood the new model packs a bit more punch. Like its predecessor, the T1005 features a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display which you can flip around and fold down over the screen for use in tablet mode. But while the T1028x…
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