Archive for the ‘Netbooks’ Category

ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A Ultrabook review

ASUS made a grand entrance into the Ultrabook race with the Zenbook Prime UX31E, which brought a sleek design and lovely, high-res screen. That machine was one of our favorites in what was still a budding category, though we took issue with the shallow keyboard and uncomfortable touchpad. The company recently started shipping its new [...]

Eurocom intros powerhouse Scorpius laptop

Eurocom has carved out a strange but soft spot in our hearts for its desktop replacement-level laptops — the insistence on overkill hardware leaves even the vaguely ultraportable Monster packing the kind of power reserved for larger-screened (if also much thinner) counterparts. Nowhere is that too-much-is-never-enough attitude truer than in the just-launched, 17.3-inch Scorpius. While [...]

Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook series

Intel already gave us a heads up that several touch-enabled Ultrabooks were in store for 2012, and here they are, becoming real before our eyes. Here at Computex 2012, Acer just announced the Aspire S7 series, which includes a 13.3-inch model and an 11.6-incher, the first in the company’s Ultrabook lineup. The S7 series will [...]

Lenovo’s ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook finally arriving this month

Lenovo ThinkPad T430u? The Ultrabook aimed at business users (and one of the first PCs with a Thunderbolt port, we might add)? If it fell off your radar, we wouldn’t really fault you: it was announced all the way back at CES (read: seven months ago). At the time, Lenovo warned us it wouldn’t ship [...]

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been a known entity since May, when the company gave us a look at the 14-inch, Ivy Bridge-packing Ultrabook. Up until now, though, the successor to the ThinkPad X1 remained somewhat shrouded in mystery, with no pricing or specific availability information to its name. But no more — Lenovo’s just [...]

Maingear introduces Vybe, a 15-inch notebook

Need a super-spec gaming notebook in a hurry? Maingear’s new Vybe laptops should be right up your street. Once ordered, the pre-built units can leave the company’s New Jersey HQ in under 48 hours, packed to the gills with all the options you’d expect from the company. The range is packing Ivy Bridge CPUs, Kepler-running [...]

HP unveils second business Ultrabook, the EliteBook Folio

We actually have one more EliteBook to introduce, and this time it’s an Ultrabook. The EliteBook Folio 9470m is ready to sidle up next to the Folio 13, HP’s first business-grade Ultrabook, as a higher-end option. The 14-inch Folio is thin and light, starting at 3.6 pounds, but the 0.75-inch chassis makes room for an [...]

Acer Iconia Tab A510 review

We’ll stop just short of quoting Top Gun here, but if it’s speed you crave, these next thousands of words could have you emptying your wallet. How’s that for an opening line? To be honest, it’s been quite some time since any of us Engadget editors booted up a brand new device and immediately let [...]

AVADirect Unveils New X79 Gaming Notebook

AVADirect has been offering up gaming notebooks for years and the latest has just launched. The new notebook uses the Intel X79 chipset and it is the Clevo P270WM. The new machine uses Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors and is designed as a desktop replacement. This is the successor to the Clevo X7200 notebook we talked [...]

Samsung Galaxy Note Headed To The US Early Next Year

Yesterday we heard that Samsung had shipped over one million Galaxy Note handsets, and one thing we missed in the announcement was that Samsung has now officially confirmed that the Galaxy Note is headed to the US in 2012. We have previously heard a rumor that the Galaxy Note would launch with US mobile carrier [...]