The Asus ZenBook Pro UX501 is an ulta-thin laptop with a big, high-resolution display, a powerful processor, discrete graphics, and a kind of hefty price tag. But it’s a little cheaper today than it was a month ago. Asus held an event in New York to announce the North American launch of the Zenfone 2 […]
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Lenovo’s 1.7 pound LaVie Z laptop hits the FCC
The Lenovo LaVie Z HZ550 is a notebook with a 13.3 inch display, an Intel Broadwell processor, and a thin-and-light design: It measures about 0.67 inches thick and weighs just 1.7 pounds. Lenovo introduced the laptop at CES in January, promising it would be available in the US starting in May. It looks like everything’s […]
Ubuntu on the Asus Zenbook UX305 ultrabook
The Asus Zenbook UX305 is a thin and light laptop that offers a pretty great value. For $699 you get a 2.6 pounds notebook with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid state storage, a 13.3 inch full HD matte display, and an Intel Core M Broadwell processor. You also get Windows 8.1 software… but what […]
Asus Zenbook UX305 review: An affordable ultrabook with premium design
Asus is the company that pretty much launched the netbook market when it introduced the original Eee PC mini-laptop in 2007. A few years later Asus was one of the first computer makers to join Intel in launching a new brand of portable notebooks. The Asus Zenbook line of laptops were among the first ultrabooks to […]
Asus Zenbook Pro UX501 is a big, powerful ultrabook
The latest member of the Asus Zenbook line of portable laptops isn’t the company’s smallest or lightest ultrabook to date. But it’s one of the most powerful. The Asus Zenbook Pro UX501 features an Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphics, speedy storage, and a high-resolution display. It also weighs about 4.5 […]
Dell XPS 13 Broadwell notebook review
It’s tough to make a laptop that stands out in 2015. There’s plenty of competition for the title of thinnest, lightest, best display, longest battery life, or best overall performance. But Dell managed to make a splash when the company introduced the latest version of its XPS 13 notebook at CES in January. It’s now available […]
Samsung’s 2.1 pound ATIV Book 9 ultrabook launches for $1200 and up
Samsung’s ATIV Book 9 2015 is a portable notebook with a 12.2 inch high-resolution display, an Intel Core M processor, and a svelte design. The laptop measures 0.46 inches thick and weighs 2.09 pounds. First introduced in December, the new ATIV Book 9 goes on sale in the US on March 1st for $1200 and […]
Asus launches the Zenbook UX305 ultrabook for $699 and up
The Asus Zenbook UX305 is a thin and light laptop that measures about 0.5 inches thick and weighs about 2.6 pounds. It’s powered by an Intel Core M Broadwell processor, offers up to 10 hours of battery life, and has a high-resolution 13 inch display. Asus introduced the Zenbook UX305 last September, showed it off at […]
Toshiba KIRA ultrabooks get a Broadwell update
Toshiba is updating its KIRA line of thin and light laptops with new models featuring 5th-gen Intel Core “Broadwell” chips. The company unveiled the new Toshiba dynabook KIRA laptops in Japan recently, and they’re set to go on sale in that country later this week for about $1350 and up. Update: The new Kirabook 13 […]
NEC’s LaVie Hybrid Zero notebook weighs just 1.7 pounds
Lenovo plans to bring NEC’s LaVie Z line of thin-and-light laptops to the US this year, where you’ll be able to buy one of these super-lightweight 13.3 inch laptops with the Lenovo brand name on it. Lenovo showed off the laptops at the Consumer Electronics Show, and while they’re not the thinnest or smallest laptops I’ve […]