About a month ago NVIDIA officially launched the GeForce 700M series of graphics accelerators. Designed primarily for notebooks the family includes a total of five models - the GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M, GeForce GT 740M, GeForce GT 735M and GeForce GT 720M. Apparently there's one more model - the GeForce GT 760M - that has not been officially announced - but it's there living happily un...
Notebooks
Acer debuts Aspire V5-122P budget notebook
30 April 2013 | Notebooks
The Taiwanese hi-tech company Acer has released a new budget-oriented notebook under the trade name of Aspire V5-122P. The new company product is built around an 11.6-inch display at 1366 x 768 pixels and packs an AMD A6-1450 APU (Temash) at 1 GHz (1.4 GHz in Turbo Mode) with built-in AMD Radeon HD 8280 GPU at 300-500 MHz. The notebook comes with 2 GB of DDR...
Toshiba rolls out Portege Z10t tablet-notebook
26 April 2013 | Notebooks, Tablets
German customers have become the first to see the latest Toshiba Portege Z10t tablet-notebook – the latest in a new series hitting the market that combines the features of a tablet and a notebook in one device. Depending on the model the Toshiba Portege Z10t offers four processors – the Intel Core i3-3229Y, Core i5-3439Y, Core i5-3339Y and Core i7-3689Y. The display is al...
Samsung debuts first ATIV notebooks
26 April 2013 | Notebooks
The South Korean Samsung has released the first two ATIV notebooks – the ATIV Book 5 and ATIV Book 6. Until this moment the ATIV brand was reserved only for versatile PCs that can work as notebooks and tablets. The ATIV Book 5 is the less powerful model – it comes with an Intel Core i5-3337U processor at 1.8 GHz, a 14-inch sensor display at 1366 x 768 pixels and 200 cd/m2...
Lenovo releases IdeaPad U310 Touch notebook
26 April 2013 | Notebooks
Lenovo has introduced a new notebook – the IdeaPad U310 Touch. The new company product is now available on the US market where it sells for USD 699. The new IdeaPad U310 Touch is based on a 13.3-inch LED display with Multi-Touch and glossy finish (1366 x 768 pixels resolution) and has an Intel Core i3-3217U Ivy Bridge processor at 1.8 GHz (2.7 GHz Turbo), Intel HD 4000 grap...
ASUS debuts Eee PC 1015E
23 April 2013 | Notebooks
ASUS has started sales of its latest Eee PC 1015E with the device first appearing in the United States. The new small form factor PC comes with a 10.1-inch display and offers a 32 nm Intel Sandy Bridge processor. The new small PC measures 261.6 x 177.8 x 23.6-36.3 mm and weighs 1.24 kilograms. It offers a dual-core Intel Celeron 847 Sandy Bridge processor at 1.1 GHz, 2 GB of...
NVIDIA prepares more TITAN graphics cards
22 April 2013 | Notebooks
In two days time AMD will launch the highly expected dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 graphics card - an event that will make NVIDIA think of new video cards - we saw something similar with the Radeon HD 7790 and the launch of the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost graphics card. Indeed new NVIDIA products are on their way to the market to counter the HD 7990 threat – and they will belong to the famous GeForce...
AMD embedded Kabini APUs to be very power efficient
16 April 2013 | Notebooks
AMD's upcoming Kabini APUs will be very power efficient sources on the Internet have announced. The APUs are expected this quarter, will have two or four Jaguar cores depending on model and will be used in budget notebooks and netbooks. According to this preliminary information AMD will release two Kabini models any time soon – two dual-core models with TDP of 9 watts and 1...
ASUS unveils Taichi 31 notebook with dual displays
15 April 2013 | Notebooks
ASUS has unveiled a new notebook with two sensor displays. The Taichi 31 has a display on the inside and thus it can work as a regular notebook – but it also has a display on the outside, which makes it work as a tablet. Both displays on the Taichi 31 measure 13.3 inches, operate at 1920 x 1080 pixels and support up to ten simultaneous touches as well as working with a styl...
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...
NVIDIA announces GeForce 700M series for notebooks
2 April 2013 | Notebooks
The graphics chip maker NVIDIA has officially introduced five new graphics solutions for notebooks that all fall under the new GeForce 700M series. The list of chips includes the high-end GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M and GeForce GT 740M while the GeForce GT 735M and GeForce GT 720M will serve the mainstream and budget market segments. All new chips support GPU Boost 2.0 a...
