Tag: Design
How Ultrabooks Stay Thin and Strong
It’s tough to deliver a thin and light notebook that doesn’t feel like it will snap apart in your hands. In order to make the Toshiba Portege Z830 and Z835 strong and thin, Toshibput considerable time and thought into the internal layout of the notebook, the build materials and even the layout of the motherboard [...]
HP Talks About Notebook Designs, Windows 8, Touch, Ultrabooks
This article is cross-posted on GottaBeMobile. I had joined HP on a press tour earlier this week where the company was showing off its business-class EliteBook notebooks, which is an elegant aluminum-clad enterprise notebook that boasts rugged features that are tested using military specs. During the company’s presentation on design, notebooks design head Stacy Wolff [...]
The Key to Unlocking the Secret to HP’s Elite Tough
HP invited a number of foreign and domestic press to tour its campus in Houston, Texas where HP notebooks are designed and engineered. On the first day, upon arrival, HP left a welcome kit that introduces the theme of the three-day tour: HP’s Making of Elite, which will highlight not only the technological innovations behind [...]
Behind the Scenes: Explore the IdeaPad U300s Design Process
It’s one thing to grab a notebook, but some notebooks obviously have more thought put into them. The IdeaPad U300s is a new Ultrabook from Lenovo that embodies the design of a book, but is perhaps the most beautiful and powerful book you’ll ever hold. The IdeaPad U300s team gets a chance to share what [...]
MSI GX780 Gaming Notebook Launches with Gamer Optimized SteelSeries Keyboard
MSI has just announced a new gaming notebook, the MSI GX780 with a steelseries keyboard that is designed with gamers in mind. This new notebook doesn’t go up to 4.5GHZ, but it does come with everything you need to game on the go — including Sandy Bridge, Nvidia GeForce GT555M graphics and a gamer friendly keyboard layout. [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 w/ 15 Hr Battery Available for Purchase April 19th
The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is one of our favorite notebooks so far in 2011. The 12.5″ ultraportable has a 15 hour real world battery, great keyboard and enough power to be the only computer you use for work thanks to the large mousepad and docking. We posted our full review of the ThinkPad X220 back [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Review
The ThinkPad X220 is a formidable notebook that delivers on speed, battery life and even price without sacrificing durability or the standard ThinkPad touches. The ThinkPad x220 is perhaps the first 12″ business notebook we could see as a standalone notebook, without the need for a more powerful desktop or notebook back in the office. [...]
Samsung Notebooks Getting BMW Influenced Styling Soon
Samsung notebooks, laptops and phones will soon be a little bit sexier thanks to the influence of a former BMW head designer that is working with the South Korean company. Chris Bangle, a former head designer for BMW who is responsible for the look of many current BMWs and several beautiful BMW concept cars including the BMW [...]
Aava Mobile to Use Intel Medfield CPU to Power Both Android and MeeGo OS
Over at GottaBeMobile, I had reported that Intel may have briefly teased a MeeGo-powered smartphone that uses the company’s Atom-based Medfield processor, and now we’re hearing that Medfield may be appearing in a handset designed by Aava Mobile that will be debuting at Mobile World Congress later this month. The smartphone would be able to [...]
Double USB Concept Design to Solve Problems Plugging In Devices
Maybe you have experienced a problem plugging in a USB device because it was not turned the right way. A new USB Concept design, from Ma Yi Xuan on Yanko Design (via Wired), proposes a solution by making USB plugs reversible. The internal contacts are “stretchy” meaning they can move inside the metal housing so [...]
