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...
Notebooks
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...
Samsung debuts Series 9 Premium notebook
27 March 2013 | Notebooks
Samsung has updated its Series 9 notebook line with a new model that is known as Series 9 Premium and carries improved hardware. The new notebook is based on an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor that runs at 1.9 GHz nominal clock speed that goes up to 3.0 GHz in Turbo Mode. The Samsung Series 9 Premium also offers a 13.3-inch display at Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels...
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...
AMD unveils A8-4557M and A10-4657M APUs
19 March 2013 | Notebooks
Following the footsteps of Intel, which has just released the Core i3-2375M processor, Advanced Micro Devices has responded by releasing two new Trinity-based APUs - the A8-4557M and A10-4657M. Both chips enjoy TDP of 35W and offer four cores and 4 MB of cache memory. The A8-4557M chip runs at 1.9 GHz (2.8 GHz in Turbo Mode) and has an integrated AMD GPU with 256 stream processor...
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...
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...
Acer updates C7 family of Chromebooks
13 March 2013 | Notebooks
Acer has decided to update its C7 family of Chromebooks with a new model that boasts six hours of battery life. The new C710-2055 model has been designed for commercial customers and schools and features an Intel Celeron 847 dual-core processor at 1.1 GHz, an 11.6-inch display at 1366 x 768 pixels and a 320 GB hard drive. The Chromebook, however, has been upgraded when compar...
ASUS launches cheaper Transformer Book
8 March 2013 | Notebooks
ASUS has publicly released to market a cheaper version of its Transformer Book hybrid notebook that sports an Intel Core i5 chip instead of the more expensive Core i7 processor. Thus customers will be able to save up to USD 350. The new Transformer Book will first hit the Japanese market and along with an Intel Core i5-3537U processor it will have a 13.3-inch sensor display a...
Fujitsu presents LifeBook AH562 at CeBIT 2013
5 March 2013 | Notebooks
The Japanese tech company Fujitsu has taken the opportunity to unveil the budget-oriented LifeBook AH562 notebook at the on-going CeBIT 2013 in Hannover, Germany. A peculiarity of the device is that it gets manufactured in Germany and sports a German flag near the keyboard which confirms its origin and guarantees traditional German quality. The Fujitsu LifeBook AH562 is based...
Seagate quits making 7200 rpm mobile hard drives
1 March 2013 | Notebooks
US hard drive manufacturer Seagate has announced it will soon stop the production of 7200 rpm mobile hard drives. The company will focus on solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) instead but will keep on offering 5400 rpm mobile hard drives for value notebooks. The decision to quit making 7200 rpm HDDs for notebooks is driven by the fact that they indeed offer better performance t...
