Category: CES 2012
Hands-On Video: Lenovo ThinkPad T430u
We got a chance to see Lenovo’s first business ultrabook at their fancy CES trailer yesterday. The ThinkPad T430u starts at $849 and it will be available starting in the second half of 2012. This 14-inch, 3.9 pound notebook has a nice suite of ports for something just 21mm at its thickest. You can configure [...]
HP ENVY Spectre 14 Ultrabook is One Glassy Ultrabook
HP shined at CES 2012 with the introduction of the HP ENVY Spectre 14, a new Ultrabook that incorporates glass throughout the design, Beats Audio and a 14 inch screen inside a 13.3″ body. HP’s big draw is the use of glass throughout the Spectre 14′s design. This includes a scratch resistant glass lid, as [...]
Samsung’s Second Generation Series 9 Proves There’s Still Room For Premium Ultraportables
Last year Samsung proved that it was possible to make an ultraportable laptop that could match or exceed the MacBook Air on every front: design, performance, and coolness. The Series 9 became the template for the ultrabook wave we’re experiencing now with the exception of the price. Samsung’s Series 5 Ultra laptops bear the ultrabook [...]
Hands-On: Samsung Series 5 Ultra 13 and 14-inch Ultrabooks
Today at CES Samsung unveiled their new ultrabook line, the Series 5 Ultra 13 inch and 14 inch laptops. Based on the design of the original Series 9 (itself a proto-ultrabook), these super slim and light machines strike more of a balance between portability, performance, and price, starting at $899. Ultrabooks are fast becoming the [...]
Ultrabook Screens Grow and Prices Drop in 2012
Today, Intel announced that it has more than 60 new Ultrabook designs in the pipeline for 2012 and that it is committed to helping manufacturers lower prices even while the displays increase in size. The first of these new Ultrabooks will arrive in the spring and they will be powered by the company’s new, third-generation [...]
Nuance Bringing Headset-Free Voice Control to Ultrabooks in 2012
Today at its press conference at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, Intel announced a partnership with Nuance to bring that company’s voice recognition to Ultrabooks at some point in 2012. And while both companies were a bit light on the details, they did have a couple of things to share. If there was one thing [...]
CES: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Hybrid Hands-On (Video)
Lenovo showed off their ThinkPad X1 Hybrid laptop at CES in Las Vegas, which evolves the veritable ThinkPad X1 hardware by giving the laptop more juice time in between charges thanks to two separate processors and a secondary OS. Thanks to an instant on mode, the Lenovo X1 Hybrid can go for 10 hours of [...]
Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook Hands-On Video
At Acer’s global press conference today they unveiled their three newest ultrabooks, but only one of the models can actually claim the moniker as set by Intel’s specs. Acer is touting the Aspire S5 as the world’s thinnest ultrabook. It is super sleek and small for a 13 incher, but so are most other systems [...]
IdeaPad U310 and U410 Usher in the UltraBook Era at Lenovo
Lenovo dabbled in the Ultrabook market in 2011 with the U300 and U300s notebooks, but at CES 2012, they showed off two new IdeaPads that reaffirm Lenovo’s commitment to making a name in the thin and light space. The IdeaPad U310 and IdeaPad U410 notebooks are both available as an Ultrabook option with an SSD [...]
Don’t Call It A Netbook – Lenovo Announces New IdeaPad S Series 11.6-inch Mini Notebooks
Of the many laptops Lenovo is announcing at this year’s CES, I’m most intrigued by the S Series. Perhaps because I’m still a netbook fangirl who’s not a little disappointed by how many companies are abandoning the form factor. The IdeaPad S200 and S206 aren’t exactly traditional netbooks thanks to the 11.6-inch displays and Win7 [...]
