Samsung has just slapped a release date on its updated 9-Series laptop. The refined 2012 model of the unibody laptop Samsung calls the ‘world’s thinnest and most compact premium notebook’ will be out in three short days. But is it a threat to Apple’s Air? Read more
While we were all eating roast dinners or drowning our Sunday evening sorrows down the pub yesterday, Acer was at CES 2012 in Las Vegas unveiling its newest wares. The Acer S5 is its big hitter, the laptop being heralded as the thinnest Ultrabook yet. But it’s not just the thinnest Ultrabook… Read more
So you want an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime? The UK-based retailer Clove has just announced its pricing for the combination tablet-laptop, landing it in a bit of a weird place in the market. Read more
Acer has just announced that it’s going to ditch netbooks and focus on Ultrabooks, citing that making cheap tat isn’t getting it anywhere. Ultrabooks could well be its saviour, but it’s completely insane that it’s taken Intel to tell manufacturers how to make them. Read more
Still pining for an ultrabook, but put off by the prohibitively high price? Well, good news is afoot. See, major ultrabook players, including Acer, Asus and Toshiba, look set to cut costs by up to 10 per cent at the start of 2012. And that’s after they’ve slashed prices below the $1,000 mark in the US by the end of the year.
Ultrabooks have been back in the headlines in the past few days, with sluggish sales and talk of 2012 price drops dominating. But now HP has rocked up with its own effort, the Folio 13. And chances are this machine, with its relatively low price tag and impressive spec sheet, could jump start the entire slimline PC category. Read on for all the details.
Asus and Acer have already slashed orders for their ultrabooks, as the super slim laptop category struggles to do the business PC makers had hoped. But now Lenovo reckons it’s got a solution, with plans to unleash a new 14-inch Ultrabook next year, costing just £499.
Asus and Acer have slashed their ultrabook orders by a whacking 40 per cent, just weeks after the superslim laptop range was officially rolled out. Word is that high prices are to blame, with first month sales well below expectation. The question is, can the Ultrabook, billed by Intel as a laptop saviour, survive? Read on to get all the details.
