The Japanese Toshiba will soon release a new high-end ultrabook that will go by the name of KIRAbook. The novelty will sport a magnesium chassis that will measure 316 x 207 x 17.8 mm and will come in two versions - one with a sensor display (1.32 kg of total weight) and another with a regular display (1.18 kg of total weight). The Toshiba KIRAbook will be based on a 13.3-inch...
Ultrabooks
Toshiba starts sales of Satellite U945-S4380 ultrabook
7 May 2013 | Ultrabooks
The Japanese Toshiba has added a new ultrabook to its product line. The novelty is called Satellite U945-S4380 and is a budget version of the earlier Satellite U845 model. Measuring 340 x 20 x 239 mm for total weight of 1.86 kg the Satellite U945-S4380 is based on the Intel Core i3-3217U processor at 1.8 GHz and features integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. The integrated graph...
Samsung unveils new Series 9 ultrabook
12 April 2013 | Ultrabooks
Samsung’s ultrabook family has grown with one more member – a 13.3-inch Series 9 Premium ultrabook at Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) sporting the company’s SuperBright technology that makes the display two times brighter that most other notebooks. The new Series 9 Premium ultrabook is based on an Intel Core i7-3537U processor at 2 GHz and has 4 GB of RAM, a 128...
Acer to unveil Aspire P3 ultrabook hybrid
10 April 2013 | Tablets, Ultrabooks
Acer will soon debut a new ultrabook – the Aspire P3 – that will come in a sleek aluminum chassis with a unique form that allows it to work as an ultrabook and a huge tablet depending on the user’s wishes. Once released the Aspire P3 will run Windows 8 and will be based on energy efficient Intel Ivy Bridge processors including Celeron, Pentium and Core i5 chips. The ult...
Intel to debut two more mobile Celeron processors
10 April 2013 | Notebooks, Ultrabooks
The upcoming Intel Haswell platform will surely strengthen Intel’s high-end market positions but it seems the company needs something in the budget segment too. This is the reason why the famous US corporation will soon release two more budget-oriented Celeron processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture – the mobile Celeron 1005M and the mobile Celeron 1017U. The mobi...
Windows Blue to bring longer battery life
25 March 2013 | Notebooks, Ultrabooks
The mysterious Windows Blue update to Windows 8, scheduled for this summer, will bring longer battery life to laptops and ultrabooks based on Intel’s Haswell processors, among other improvements to Windows 8 itself. A source close to Microsoft has unveiled that Windows Blue will include an all new power model that can adapt to various devices and mobile computers with diffe...
Intel releases new mobile Core i3 processor
19 March 2013 | Notebooks, Ultrabooks
Intel Corp. has quietly released a new Core i3 chip based on the well known Sandy Bridge architecture. The chip targets mobile devices and is known as Core i3-2375M. The 32 nm Core i3-2375M has two cores that operate at 1.5 GHz and share 3 MB of L3 cache. Just like other Core i3 chips this one supports the latest multimedia instructions including SSE4 and AVX and offers Hyper...
Lenovo prepares 14-inch ThinkPad T431s ultrabook
18 March 2013 | Ultrabooks
Lenovo will soon launch a new ultra light 14-inch ultrabook known as ThinkPad T431s. The device weighs just 1.36 kilograms due to the fact it does not come with an optical drive. The ThinkPad T431s is a rather flexible device – it comes with an Intel Core i5-3337U processor that can be upgraded to Core i7-3687U, up to 12 GB of DDR3 RAM, 1 TB hard drive or 256 GB SSD, suppor...
Buffalo sells super thin external hard drive
14 March 2013 | Notebooks, Ultrabooks
The Japanese company Buffalo Technologies has started the sales of a new external hard drive known as MiniStation Slim HD-PUS500U3. The drive offers a capacity of 500 GB and something more… The MiniStation Slim HD-PUS500U3 is unusual because it comes hidden in a metallic chassis that measures just 115 x 79 x 8.8 mm making it the thinnest external hard drive with 500 GB of s...
ASUS releases VivoBook S500 and S550 ultrabooks
12 March 2013 | Ultrabooks
ASUS has released two new 15.6-inch sensor display ultrabooks known as VivoBook S500 and VivoBook S550. The two new ultrabooks share quite a bit of their tech specs. For a starter they both measure 380 x 265.9 x 21 mm and weigh 2.6 kilograms. The displays operate at 1366 x 768 pixels and on the inside the two new members of the VivoBook family sport 6 GB of DDR3 memory, a hybrid...
Intel plans to release Celeron 1019Y processor
28 February 2013 | Tablets, Ultrabooks
Intel’s family of ultra low power Y-series processors will soon get a new member - the Intel Celeron 1019Y chip. As with the other members of the family the Celeron 1019Y will power ultrabooks and tablets. The chip is expected in Q2 2013 and will be based on two Ivy Bridge cores. It will have 2 MB of L3 cache, an integrated dual-channeled DDR3 memory controller for DDR3-1600 memory a...
