ASUS has treated its European customers and fans with a new ultra thin 13.3-inch notebook model VivoBook U38DT. The new notebook model comes with a quad-core AMD A8-4555M APU and features APU-integrated AMD Radeon HD 7600G graphics and an external Radeon HD 8550 graphics card with 1 GB of VRAM. In addition the VivoBook U38DT comes with a 13.3-inch touch screen TN disp...
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Maingear announces Nomad 15 gaming laptop
13 November 2012 | Gaming, Notebooks
US company Maingear known for making high-end PCs has announced the addition of the powerful Nomad 15 gaming laptop to its product list. As the name suggests the Nomad 15 comes with a 15-inch display. The most expensive version will give you a quad-core Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3840QM processor at 2.8 GHz (3.8 GHz in Turbo mode), a Full HD display at 1920 x 1080 pixel...
Acer works on Chromebook AC710
12 November 2012 | Notebooks
Acer will soon update its Chromebook line with a new device that will be called Chromebook AC710. When it hits the market it will replace the current Chromebook AC700 device released last year. Unlike the Intel Atom-based AC700 the upcoming Chromebook AC710 will be based on an Intel Ivy Bridge processor with the actual chips being Core i3 or Core i5. The Chromebook AC...
ASUS prepares Taichi 31 dual display laptop
12 November 2012 | Notebooks
The well-known Taiwanese hardware maker ASUS prepares a new dual-display laptop – the Taichi 31 – that should be launched by the end of 2012. The new company product will offer two displays – one 13.3-inch that will sit where a laptop display usually sits and another 11.6-inch one that is located on top of the lid. Thus the device can function as a laptop and then as a tablet wit...
MSI prepares Windows 8 notebooks for mid-November
9 November 2012 | Notebooks
Unlike most other companies MSI has been missing on the Windows 8 market until now. The company will quickly fix this blunder though with the launch of its first Windows 8 notebooks in mid-November. The new notebook galore will include high-end G-series notebooks, multimedia C-series and ultra-thin X-series notebooks. In addition Micro-Star International (MSI) will of...
Gigabyte adds three new notebooks to product range
1 November 2012 | Notebooks, PC gaming
Trying to appeal to more customers and gain a larger market share the Taiwanese Gigabyte has added three new notebook models to its product range – the sleek U2442 ultrabook, the powerful P2542G Blu-Ray gaming notebook and another notebook of the same class – the Gigabyte P2742G. The Gigabyte U2442 offers a sleek form factor and a weight of just 1.57 kg. Based on a 14-inch ...
Intel brings new Atom processor to market
30 October 2012 | Notebooks
Intel has quietly launched the Atom D2560 chip – based on the Saltwell architecture the new piece of silicon is here to replace the D2550 as the top chip of the series. Based on 32 nm technology Atom D2560 comes with two x86 cores at 2.0 GHz and supports Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology that allows the two cores to process four threads at the same time. The new Atom chip also...
ASUS rolls out 14-inch gaming laptop
29 October 2012 | Notebooks, PC gaming
The Taiwanese ASUS has introduced a new gaming laptop in the 14-inch market segment. One may think 14 inches is too small – but the ASUS ROG G46VW packs powerful hardware and the 14-inch display makes it easy to carry. As the name hints the ASUS ROG G46VW belongs to the Republic of Gamers series and comes with fast Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processors, discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX ...
MSI unveils new Windows 8-based gaming laptops
29 October 2012 | Notebooks, PC gaming
MSI was quick to announce new gaming laptops based on Windows 8. The list includes the GT70 ONE and GT60 ONE models that apart from the brand-new OS pack some serious hardware – as expected from any gaming laptop. Starting with the specs list, the MSI GT70 ONE comes with an Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor, 17.3-inch Full HD display, GeForce GTX 680M graphics card with 4 GB...
Apple releases iPad Mini, iPad 4, other devices
24 October 2012 | MAC PC, Notebooks, Tablets
Apple and Apple fans have had a great day when the Cupertino-based US tech giant released a bunch of new devices at an event held in the USA, including the iPad 4, iPad Mini and improved Mac computers. The iPad 4 boasts a very powerful A6X SoC processor and comes with a 9.7-inch display at 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution, 1 GB of LPDDR2 RAM, 16 GB/32 GB/64 GB of NAND flash storage, 5 ...
Google and Samsung introduce new Samsung Chromebook
19 October 2012 | Notebooks
Tech giants Google and Samsung have unveiled the new Samsung Chromebook – an ultra-portable 11.6-inch device that weighs just 2.5 pounds and can be taken anywhere. The Samsung Chromebook is based on an 11.6-inch display that works at 1366x768 pixels and sports a Samsung Exynos Dual 5 ARM processor, built-in dual band Wi-Fi 802.11n, a VGA camera, one USB 3.0 port, one USB 2.0 port...
