Ultrabooks are thin notebooks with Intel Sandy Bridge or newer processors, decent battery life, and solid state storage for speedier performance than you get from hard drives. They’re also a lot more expensive than the last big trend in ultraportable computers. Netbooks hit the market in 2007 with prices starting at $400. Today you can pick […]
ultrabooks
Posted inFeatured, News
Intel: 20 Windows 8 tablets, 50 ultrabooks on the way
Microsoft may finally be preparing to launch a version of the Windows operating system designed to run on devices with ARM-based processors. But Intel powered devices are dominating this year’s Computex trade show. During today’s Intel keynote presentation, the company showed a wall filled with 50 different ultrabooks. Those are thin and light laptops which, […]
Posted inFeatured, News
Intel updates ultrabook specs, unveils new ultrabook processors
Intel has introduced 14 new dual core processors as part of its 3rd generation Core family chip lineup. These processors join the quad-core CPUs the company introduced last month. While 6 of the new chips are aimed at desktops, the rest are 17W and 35W chips aimed at notebooks and ultrabooks. It’s likely that the […]
Posted inDeals, Featured
10 Ultrabook deals for under $800
Ultrabooks are thin and light laptops that use Intel processors and solid state disks (or solid state cache) to offer quick boot and resume-from-sleep speeds, among other things. They’re pretty nice little machines, but when the first ultrabooks hit the streets in late 2011 they tended to have prices close to $1000. Over the last […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inFeatured, News
Intel expects to see 75 ultrabooks in 2012
Less than a year after unveiling its new ultrabok platform, chip maker Intel says there are already 26 different models of the thin-and-light laptops available for purchase. By the end of the year, Intel says that number could be as high as 75. Ultrabooks are generally laptops which measure less than 0.8 inches thick, weigh […]
Posted inFeatured, News
NVIDIA launches 28nm graphics processor for ultrabooks
NVIDIA is introducing its next-generation graphics processing technology, and along with a new high-end GeForce GTX 680 graphics for desktop gaming, the company has a new mobile solution for ultrabooks and other notebooks. This isn’t a huge surprise. We already knew that the Acer M3 ultrabook would feature an NVIDIA GeForce GT640M graphics processor based […]
Posted inFeatured, News
Ivy Bridge ultrabooks on the way (could mean cheaper Sandy Bridge models)
PC makers are charging anywhere from $800 to $1900Â for ultrabooks, the new class of thin and light laptops featuring Intel processors. But prices for the current crop of ultrabooks could fall soon, in order to make room for next-generation models. Every ultrabook available right now features an Intel Sandy Bridge processor, with most featuring Intel […]
Posted inFeatured, News
Breaking: Trendy new products more exciting than older once-trendy products
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that one day tablets will outsell PCs. He has good reason to think so, because iPads are out-selling Mac computers by 3 to 1. And it appears an awful lot of people got new tablets during the 2011 holidays. Juniper Research predicts that by 2016, PC makers could ship as […]
Posted inFeatured, News
CES 2012: PC makers really want you to like ultrabooks
Ultrabooks are big news at CES this year. Acer, Samsung, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba all introduced new models. The Intel booth looks like ultrabook Central this year, with tablets and netbooks relegated to a tiny corner of the show floor, and other devices virtually non-existent. And Intel kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show with a […]