Dell’s taking the slightly revamped “forward hinge” design language it introduced with the Inspiron R line and bringing it down to 11.6-inches with the new Inspiron M101z. The laptop is a followup to the Inspiron 11z, and packs your choice of AMD Athlon Neo K125 (single core) or K325 chips (dual core)
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Dell Inspiron M101z tosses AMD Neo chips into a new 11-inch chassis
Sony’s VAIO P has been around since last decade , but just recently Sony decided to pry it out of the company’s left rear pocket in order to reface it and bless it with a few updated components. We still have a hard time stomaching the $800 price tag, but there’s honestly not much competition when looking specifically at this form factor.
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How would you change Sony’s VAIO P?
On the surface Acer’s 10.1-inch Aspire One 521 and 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 appear to be fairly run-of-the-mill netbooks — or ultraportables for those that are morally opposed to calling a laptop with a 11.6-inch display a netbook. They’re rather small machines, measure just about an inch thick, and ring up at under $430. But there’s a lot more than meets the eye with this Aspire One duo – instead of Intel Atom or ULV processors, both are powered by a new AMD 1.7GHz Athlon II Neo K125 processor and promise 1080p playback thanks to ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics.
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Acer Aspire One 521 and 721 review
Toshiba ’s announced more than enough laptops for us in the past week , but the 13.3-inch Portégé R700 is ranking pretty high up there on our favorite list. The ultraportable has gotten a complete redesign at its core — there’s a new magnesium chassis that’s been re-engineered with an internal honeycomb metal that aims to dissipate heat, as well as a new chiclet style keyboard.
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Toshiba Portégé R700 slides in with a thin design, Core power and an affordable pricetag
According to DigiTimes , processor vendor AMD isn’t terribly concerned about powering the next iPad or even a would-be assassin ; the company’s still waiting to see if the tablet market even takes off. The silicon firm will still work on desktop PC products and graphics cards, but is currently focused on graphically potent ultraportables ; according to the publication, they’re also not terribly interested in following in competitor Intel’s smartphone footsteps . Of course, that’s the same basic thing AMD execs said in 2008 , right before Intel ate their lunch
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AMD in no rush to build tablets, says netbooks are priority one
Tablets may be attracting all of the attention right now, but it’s clear that Intel ’s keeping a broad focus on mobile computing. During today’s PC Client keynote at Computex , the company took a moment to talk up Canoe Lake , an experimental platform that’ll enable 720p video playback on a machine that’s barely thicker than a couple of envelopes stacked together. We got a chance to peek the prototype on hand in Taipei, and we were told that Intel designed the device you’re peering at above completely in-house as a way to sell PC makers on the idea.
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Intel ‘Canoe Lake’ prototype netbook preview
Tablets may be attracting all of the attention right now, but it’s clear that Intel ’s keeping a broad focus on mobile computing.
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Intel ‘Canoe Lake’ prototype netbook preview
A tipster who apparently correctly predicted the recent MacBook Pro refresh has alerted Australian Macworld to a new SKU making its way through Apple’s systems down under. According to said “well-placed” source, the MC516LL/A K87 BETTER BTR-USA code string identifies an incoming batch of all-new MacBook Air laptops. This makes all the sense in the world given the recent hubbub about Intel offering ULV versions of its 32nm Core 2010 processors and the Air’s overdue need for an upgrade, but there is the proviso that this could also be referring to shipments of new 27-inch LCDs, to match the ones found on the latest iMac generation .
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MacBook Air feeling the wind of change?
Toshiba has a long history of making highly desirable ultraportables . Now, if today’s rumor pans out, it seem set to bust out another in the form of the world’s lightest (less than 1Kg with SSD) 13 incher
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Toshiba building world’s lightest 13-inch laptop with fast charging SCiB battery?
In its own inimitable style, Dell has just updated its Latitude range with the E4310 model we saw floating through the FCC bearing the fancy codename of Lafite . As part of the company’s “E-Family,” this 13-incher promises rock solid durability and rugged design without compromising on the spec sheet goodies. Processor options are provided by Intel’s 2.4GHz Core i5-520M or 2.53GHz Core i5-540M, while memory can stretch up to 8GB of DDR3 and storage space can be maxed out at 500GB
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Latitude E4310 sneaks onto Dell’s e-tail pages, ‘coming soon’
