Acer is getting ready to launch the 14 and 15 inch ultrabooks the company introduced at CES in January. At the time Acer was calling the thin notebooks Timeline Ultra, but when they launch in the UK in June they’ll be called Acer Aspire M5 ultrabooks. There’s no word on the pricing yet. Both the […]
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Lenovo unveils ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook
Lenovo unveiled its new line of ThinkPad notebooks with Intel Ivy Bridge processors today. For the most part these are your usual high-end laptops with a focus on business-friendly features. But one model that stands out from the crowd is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. This is Lenovo’s first ThinkPad-branded ultrabook, and it looks like a […]
AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on “ultrathin” laptops
AMD has launched its second-generation A-series line of processors aimed at a wide range of computers from desktops to “ultrathin” notebooks. You can’t call them ultrabooks because Intel owns the rights to that word. Code-named Trinity, the new chips in this family range from a low power 17W Â dual core processor processors aimed at ultrathins […]
Acer Aspire S5 ultrabook goes on sale in June
Acer introduced the Aspire S5 ultrabook at CES in January, but at the time there were no details about the price or launch date. Now it looks like the thin and light laptop is set to go on sale in the United Arab Emirates in June for about $1400. The Aspire S5 will probably be […]
Rumors of 8.9 Kindle Fire, front-lit Kindle eReader resurface
It’s no secret that Amazon is working on its next-generation Kindle devices. The company tends to put out at least one product refresh per year, and we’ve already heard rumors that we could see an E Ink Kindle with a front-lit display and a larger Kindle Fire Android tablet this year. Now Reuters has a […]
ES File Explorer for Android adds SkyDrive support
Google Drive is cool and all, what with the 5GB of online storage users get for free. But Microsoft offers 7GB of free storage with Windows Live SkyDrive (or up to 25GB for some users). Now there’s an easy way to access your SkyDrive account from an Android device. Microsoft offers official SkyDrive apps for […]
Archos releases Special Developer Edition firmware for Gen9 tablets
Archos has been releasing special developer edition software for its Android tablets for the last few years. Recently the company added Special Developer Edition (SDE) firmware for its 9th generation tablets to the list. That includes the Archos 80 G9 and Archos 101 G9 tablets. But while earlier SDE firmware releases have been based on […]
Intel 22nm smartphone chips coming in 2013
Intel has revealed plans to launch a line of 22nm chips aimed at smartphones in 2013. The new processors will be successors to the Intel Atom 32nm Medfield chips that we’re starting to see this year. Details about the new processors are kind of scare, but the folks at SemiAccurate snagged a product slide which […]
FXI Cotton Candy $199 PC on a stick to ship this month
FXI started taking orders for its $199 Cotton Candy mini-PC in February with promises that the little computer would ship in March. That didn’t happen, but Laptop Magazine says FXI will start sending out Cotton Candy devices this month to customers that placed pre-orders. The company reportedly used the extra time to add a few features […]
Ubuntu 12.10 may get GNOME Flavoring (along with Unity, KDE, etc)
Up until a few years ago Ubuntu Linux used the GNOME desktop environment which provided the basic look and feel to the desktop and toolbar as well as a series of default apps. But starting with Ubuntu 11.04, GNOME was replaced with the Unity user interface which was built by the Ubuntu developers. Users who […]