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Intel’s secret for cheaper ultrabooks: plastic cases

Most major PC makers have released ultrabooks over the past few months, and many more of the thin and light laptops are expected in the coming year. But while they’re thinner and lighter than typical notebooks and much more powerful than an average netbook, there’s at least one thing that still makes ultrabooks a tough […]

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Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga flexible Windows 8 tablet priced at $1900 in UK

The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga is a Windows 8 convertible tablet-style notebook with an unusual design. Instead of twisting the screen to fold down flat over the keyboard when you’re using the computer in tablet mode, you simply push the screen back nearly 360 degrees until you have a flat computer with the keyboard facing one […]

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15 inch Acer fiberglass ultrabook in the works?

Acer is reportedly working on a new thin and light laptop with a 15 inch display and a fiberglass case. Digitimes reports that Taiwanese equipment maker Pegatron has already started producing the new ultrabook for Acer. Most ultrabooks on the market today have 11 to 13 inch displays, but laptop makers are pushing the boundaries […]

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Novatech launches ÂŁ430 nFinity ultrabook in the UK

British PC maker Novatech plans to start offering a line of ultrabooks soon. Like ultrabooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, and HP, the Novatech nFinity will be thin and light computers with Intel processors. But Novatech will undercut the competition on price. The cheapest nFinity ultrabook model will run £430, or about $687. That’s not bad when […]

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Teso K116 ultrabook features a tablet top, detachable keyboard

Chinese device maker Teso is now offering an ultrabook with an 11.6 inch display, an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, and a detachable keyboard. The Teso K116 showed up at business-to-business sales site Alibaba recently. The list price is between $400 and $600 per unit… but that’s the price for distributors looking to order 1000 or […]

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Unitcom 14 inch ultrabook hits Japan for $730

Japanese company Unitcom has added a new thin and light ultrabook to its Lesance notebook lineup. But it’s not the size that makes the LesanceNB S3431/L stand out — it’s the price. It goes on sale this weekend for a starting price of just 59,980 yen, or about $730. That makes it one of the […]

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Acer M3 ultrabook with NVIDIA Kepler graphics coming this month

Acer has announced that the Aspire Timeline M3 ultrabook will be available around the globe by the end of March. Meanwhile, NVIDIA says the M3 will be the first ultrabook to ship with a next-generation NVIDIA Kepler graphics processor. The Acer Aspire Timeline M3 qualifies as an ultrabook because it’s a thin and light notebook […]