Tag: Featured
Toshiba Portege z835 Review: The $850 Ultrabook
Toshiba has torn apart what you think a $900 notebook should look like and delivered the Best Buy exclusive Toshiba Portege z835. The Portege z835 is an ultrabook, which means it is as thin as can be and lighter than a MacBook Air. Surprisingly, Best Buy and Toshiba are able to sell this ultrabook at [...]
Samsung Series 3 11.6″ Notebook Review
The Samsung Series 3 11.6″ Notebook won’t wow users with power and speed, but it does offer a step up from low-end netbooks at a nice price with understated style and mobility. Since picking out this ultramobile machine I’ve been pretty impressed. I picked up the NP300U1A-A01US model over the holidays for a steal for [...]
Dell XPS 14z Rocks – Great Speakers and Sound
Notebook audio is always a mixed bag, and often a disappointingly muddy and quiet bag at that. When you do hear good audio it’s usually found on notebooks designed to be stuck on a desk, but the Dell XPS 14z is able to pack in some of the best sounding speakers I’ve ever heard, in a surprisingly [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad U400 Review
Lenovo’s U Series IdeaPads are all about the blend of style and substance. We’re fans of the ultraportables and ultrabooks in the line and were eager to see how the mainstream U400 stacked up. On first glance you might mistake this IdeaPad for a MacBook Pro thanks to the all-metal body, minimalist design, and skimpy [...]
Best of CES 2012
The Notebooks.com team found a collection of amazing devices at CES 2012. We weeded out the best of the best after a week of visiting countless, press conference and meeting rooms to check out the latest notebooks and gadgets. We were pleased to see solid notebook innovation at CES 2012, despite the naysayers that are [...]
Best Gaming Notebook: Samsung Series 7 Gamer is a Stylish Beast (video)
The Samsung Series 7 Gamer is one of the best machines we’ve seen at CES 2012. Samsung’s first gaming notebook packs enough raw power to play the latest video games at their highest settings. This notebook comes with a lot of the features you’d expect to see on a gaming notebook, but its designers managed [...]
HP ENVY Spectre 14 Hands-On Video
Here at CES 2012 there are a number of new notebooks, but the glass loving HP ENVY Spectre 14 stands out in a crowded room with a design that incorporates glass on multiple sides. I was able to go hands on with the new glass covered beauty at PepCom and came away impressed with the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Review – This Stylin’ Ultrabook Is No MacBook Air Clone
The Scoop Lenovo’s ultrabook embodies many of the best aspects of this new notebook category, including a seriously thin design coupled with impressive performance. The design is singular instead of following the Air-clone crowd, with a Clementine Orange option that stands out. Still, the IdeaPad U300s excludes several features to keep the size and cost [...]
