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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]