Author Archive: Josh Smith
Josh Smith is a longtime mobile tech user, currently using a Droid as his primary smartphone. Josh is also an editor at Notebooks.com where he reviews notebooks and other mobile tech. Follow Josh on Twitter @Josh_Smith or email him Josh@Notebooks.com.
Dell XPS 13 Review: Editor’s Choice Windows 8 Ultrabook
The Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook is now available with a 1080P Full HD display, new processors and more storage, wrapped up in the same sleek package we saw last year, and at competitive prices. Dell took everything we loved about the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and improved on it for 2013, which means it remains [...]
Best of CES 2013
The Notebooks.com team presents our best of CES 2013 awards. While CES 2103 didn’t feature as many Notebooks as years past, our team scoured the show floor and met with the top computer companies to see nearly every notebook announced at CES 2013. After looking through all the notebooks and notebook technology we picked the [...]
HP TouchSmart SleekBook Takes Touch Mobile
HP announced the HP TouchSmart Sleekbook and HP Sleekbook at CES 2013, adding a touch screen to the Sleekbook for the first time, and bringing the TouchSmart brand to notebooks. The TouchSmart Sleekbook and Sleekbook notebooks are similar to Ultrabooks, but use AMD processors instead of Intel Core i processors. The notebooks are similar, though [...]
IdeaPad U & IdeaPad Z Series Updated with Touch for Windows 8
The Lenovo IdeaPad U series and IdeaPad Z series gained small updates at CES 2013 where Lenovo unveiled touch-screens models of their popular IdeaPad notebooks. These new touch screen models arrive with Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows with a standard desktop mode and a touch-friendly modern user interface with Live Tiles. The IdeaPad [...]
Samsung Series 7 Chronos Brings Quad-Core Power at CES 2013
Samsung announced the Series 7 Chronos ahead of CES 2103, showing off the latest update to the powerful Chronos line of notebooks, which will officially take the stage at CES 2013. Like the previous Chronos notebooks, the Series 7 Chronos notebook for 2013 packs in the power. Look for a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor [...]
Samsung Series 7 Ultra Coming at CES
The Samsung series 7 Ultra is a new Ultrabook coming from Samsung at CES 2013 next week. The company is spreading out CES announcements in the run up to the show, and the latest is Samsung’s take on a new Ultrabook. The Samsung Series 7 Ultra joins the Samsung Series 7 notebooks as the first [...]
HP Elitebook Revolve Brings Business to Ultrabook Convertibles
The HP Elitebook Revolve is an Ultrabook Convertible with an 11.6-inch touch display that twists from notebook to tablet mode to allow users to do more with a single device. The EliteBook Revolve works similar to the ThinkPad Twist, joining it as one of the few Business Ultrabook Convertibles on the market. The HP Elitebook [...]
Toshiba Satellite P845t Review: A Touchscreen is Essential for Windows 8
The Toshiba Satellite P845t-S4310 is a Windows 8 notebook that includes a 14-inch touchscreen to deliver a better experience. The Satellite P845t isn’t an Ultrabook Convertible like many of the touchscreen Windows 8 notebooks we’ve reviewed, that transform from a notebook to a tablet. Rather it is a traditional notebook with a large touchscreen. Pros Touch [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad Twist Review: Ultrabook Convertible
The Lenovo ThinkPad Twist is the first business Ultrabook Convertible to arrive with Windows 8. The Twist twists from a small portable ThinkPad notebook with the well-known ThinkPad keyboard to a small Windows 8 tablet thanks to a rotating hinge. Switching from a notebook to a tablet isn’t new, but combined with Windows 8′s touch-friendly design, [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch Arrives with Windows 8
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is even more attractive now that Lenovo put the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch up for sale with Windows 8. This new version of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon that we loved includes a 14.1-inch touch screen and a 3G radio for on the go productivity anywhere there is a cell signal. The [...]
