If you’ve been following our daily deals updates, you’ll know that you don’t always have to wait until the weekend after Thanksgiving to get great deals on tablets, notebooks, eReaders, phones, and other mobile devices. But you probably won’t find as many things on sale from as many stores any other day of the year. So […]
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US Notebook prices averaged just over $500 in March
Netbooks may not be selling like hotcakes anymore, but it looks like the netbook effect has taken a toll on long-term laptop prices. Laptop Magazine reports that the average price of a notebook computer in March, 2012 was $507, or just a few bucks more than the price of an iPad. That figure comes from […]
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AMD’s answer to Intel’s ultrabooks coming in early 2012?
Ultrabooks are a new class of thin and light laptops which feature Intel processors, solid state disks, and other premium features including fast boot and resume-from-sleep speeds. If you’re wondering why they need Intel chips, it’s because Intel coined the word “ultrabook” and has trademarked the heck out of it. But Intel doesn’t have a […]
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Acer: Ultrabooks could sell for $499 by 2013
Ultrabooks are thin and light portable computers with solid state disks and the latest Intel processors. Right now they’re premium laptops with prices ranging from $899 to nearly $1500. But Intel is hoping that within the next year or two ultrabooks could account for as much as 40 percent of all laptop sales — and […]
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Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks drop to $399 and $449 on Amazon
Though they’ve only been available for purchase since June, Samsung has already decided to drop the price of its Series 5 Chromebooks. The Wi-Fi only version is now $30 less at Amazon.com, priced at $399. The 3G version is now only $449 — down from its original $499. Acer’s Chromebook offerings remain cheaper at $349 […]
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Asus to give the Eee PC 1215B an AMD E-450 spec bump
Asus will soon offer an updated version of the Eee PC 1215B notebook with a 1.65 GHz AMD E-450 processor. Right now the 12.1 inch notebook is available with either a 1.6 GHz AMD E-350 chip or lower power AMD C-30 or C-50 processors. AMD hasn’t yet officially launched the new E-450 processor, but it’s […]