It’s only been a few months since Toshiba introduced its U845 ultrabook, but the company is already starting to show off its next 14 inch ultrabook models. Engadget reports the Toshiba Satellite U945 and P845t will both launch on Ocotber 26th when Windows 8 is released. Toshiba Satellite U945 This laptop is basically what you get […]
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Sony slaps a touchscreen on the Vaio T13 ultrabook (for Windows 8)
Windows 8 is designed to play well with touchscreens, which is why we’re seeing companies announce tablet after tablet and convertible notebook after convertible notebook. But you don’t need a slate-like PC to take advantage of Windows 8’s touch-based navigation. You can just slap a touchscreen into a standard notebook. That’s exactly what Sony plans […]
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HP unveils 15.6 inch SpectreXT TouchSmart ultrabook
What do you get if you take the HP Envy 6T ultrabook, replace the 15.6 inch display with a higher resolution full HD panel, add a touchscreen, and replace Windows 7 with Windows 8? You get the SpectreXT TouchSmart Ultrabook, a new premium laptop that HP plans to launch in December. It’s not just the […]
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OLPC XO-4 Touch convertible tablet for students to launch in early 2013
The OLPC project may have started off as a non-profit initiative to develop inexpensive computers and distribute “One Laptop Per Child” to developing nations around the world. But over the past few years the group has also branched out into durable, low power tablets. Now OLPC is bringing the two projects together with the XO-4 […]
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Acer Aspire S7 touchscreen ultrabook hitting the UK in September
Acer will launch its S7 ultrabooks in the UK next month for £1,149.99 and up. That’s close to $1800 US, but the laptops will likely be substantially cheaper if and when they’re released int he US. SlashGear reports that the starting price covers a model with an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor, 4GB of RAM, […]
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Archos ChildPad with capacitive touchscreen coming soon for $140
The Archos ChildPad is a 7 inch tablet designed for children. But despite the cartoon-inspired wallpapers and kid-friendly colors, the $129 has some halfway decent specs, including a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, and 1 GB of RAM. Unfortunately the $129 model also has a low resolution 800 x 480 pixel resisitive touchscreen display. But […]
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Asus Zenbook Prime UX21A ultrabook gets a touchscreen option
The Asus Zenbook Prime UX21A is an ultrabook with an Ivy Bridge processor and an 11.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display. Now it looks like Asus also plans to offer an optional touchscreen display. This doesn’t make the Zenbook Prime UX21A a tablet. It’s still a clamshell-style laptop. But when you open the lid […]
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Samsung Series 5 Ultra Touch slaps a touchscreen on an ultrabook
The Samsung Series 5 Ultra Touch is what you get if you take a 14 inch Samsung ultrabook and add a capacitive touch panel to the display. It doesn’t convert into a tablet, but it does allow you to interact with the Windows 8 Metro-style user interface using either your fingers or the touchpad below […]
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Apple won’t be launching converged tablets, notebooks… yet
Apple makes a lot of money selling touchscreen tablets, smartphones, and portable media devices. In fact, the company now makes more money from iOS products than it does from pricey laptop and desktop computers running OS X. So when you look at the latest versions of OS X which offer support for full-screen apps and […]
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Intel thinks touchscreens on notebooks make sense – do you?
Intel is showing off a reference design for an ultrabook with a touchscreen display. It’s not a convertible tablet, since you can’t fold the laptop flat and still use the touchscreen. It’s just a notebook — with a touch-sensitive display. You can use the touchscreen much like you’d use any phone or tablet touch interface. […]