It’s been a couple of weeks since our last “best laptop” article, mostly because I had concerns about recommending anything with AMD’s Richland and Intel’s Haswell processors right around the corner. At this point, it looks like Haswell is going to be a relatively small portion of Intel’s shipments for the near term, with a heavy focus on higher performance quad-core parts and Ultrabooks—basically, a focus on the more lucrative markets. AMD’s Richland APU on the other hand will be a drop-in replacement for Trinity that offers slightly faster CPU and GPU performance, but nothing earth shattering. That leaves plenty of room for laptop recommendations for the next several months, and today we’re going to look at the business sector. Let’s first start by discussing...
Ivy Bridge Mobile Lineup Overview
It sure didn't take long. Last week, Intel's roadmaps about desktop Ivy Bridge processors were leaked and we posted our Ivy Bridge Desktop Lineup Overview on Saturday. The initial...
39 by Kristian Vättö on 12/7/2011Introducing AMD’s Radeon 7000M and NVIDIA’s GeForce 600M Mobile GPUs
AMD briefed us last week on several new and upcoming technologies and announcements. We’ve covered the AMD Memory announcement, and next up on the list is AMD’s Radeon Mobility...
65 by Jarred Walton on 12/7/2011Holiday 2011 Laptop Buyer’s Guide
We say it every year, but the trends continue so we’ll keep repeating it: laptops and mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular, often at the cost of desktop sales...
87 by Jarred Walton on 12/2/2011Samsung Exynos 5250 Announced: Cortex-A15, 2GHz, Dual-core
All our favorite mobile System-on-Chip manufacturers have been hard at work on their Cortex-A15 designs, and Samsung is no different. Today, in Korea, Samsung announced their first Cortex-A15 SoC...
25 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/30/2011Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290: Glasses-Free 3D?
Way back in the dark ages of CES 2011, we were able to lay hands on and play with some interesting new technology from Toshiba. They had a prototype...
16 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/23/2011Affordable Chromebooks for the Holidays
We received two press releases this morning relating to Chromebooks, one from Acer and one from Samsung. Starting with Acer, they have announced a $50 price drop on their...
16 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2011Understanding Wireless Storage: Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate GoFlex Satellite
Let me pose a hypothetical situation: say you bought an iPhone or iPad, but cheaped out and got a 16GB model. You’ve got around 10GB worth of music, a...
31 by Vivek Gowri on 11/21/2011Motorola Mobility Shareholders Vote to Approve Google Merger
Motorola Mobility shareholders have overwhelmingly approved of a potential merger with Google, the next step in the deal that was first announced in August. Ninety-nine percent of all voting...
3 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/18/2011Cotton Candy: Funny Name, Dual-core Android on a USB Stick
Occasionally a product presents itself that seems to be so logical you're left stunned that no one thought of this before. So it is with the Cotton Candy, the...
17 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/17/2011Work Begins on CyanogenMod 9, ETA in January
Following the release of Ice Cream Sandwich's source code, Cyanogen announced via Twitter that work had begun on CyanogenMod 9, the Ice Cream Sandwich-based version of the popular community-developed...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/16/2011Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown
Thanks iFixit for the image! As we work on our Kindle Fire review, iFixit dissected Amazon's first entry into the tablet space. The internals aren't surprising - there's an OMAP...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 11/16/2011Toshiba Portege Z835: A New Ultrabook Appears
Intel's ultrabook initiative is a curious one, one that's very gradually picking up interest among vendors. We've already had a chance to take a look at the smaller of...
65 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/16/2011HP's Winter Refresh, With Business-Class Ultrabook
We recently went out to San Francisco to take a look at HP's winter product refresh and meet with their representatives, and there were a couple of interesting new...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/16/2011Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Line to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update
In a blog post today, Sony Ericsson divulged that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich would be coming to the entire Xperia lineup. This follows the recent news that ICS...
8 by Amman Sood on 11/15/2011BlackBerry London Image Leaked: The First QNX Phone
First reported by The Verge and subsequently confirmed by Boy Genius Report, the first image of BlackBerry's first BBX phone has leaked, and it is a significant departure from...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/15/2011Two Razer Blade Gaming Laptop Prototypes Stolen
In a statement on the official Razer Facebook page, Razer has announced that two of the Razer Blade prototypes were stolen from their San Francisco Research and Development lab...
11 by Amman Sood on 11/14/2011T-Mobile Introduce HSPA+ Equipped Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus
With the WiFi SKU just a week from release, we knew we'd see a cellular radio sporting SKU crop up sooner or later. And so, T-Mobile and Samsung announced...
5 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/8/2011Mozilla Developing Open Web Mobile OS
The developers at Mozilla have been busy; Firefox 8 is just around the corner and now they seem to be developing an experimental mobile operating system. They're calling it...
18 by Amman Sood on 11/7/2011HTC Rezound Announced:LTE, Beats by Dre and HD SuperLCD on Verizon
We knew this was coming, but HTC still had some surprises in store. The HTC Rezound will hit retail channels for $299 on November 14th. This latest halo phone...
23 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/3/2011Acer Giving Away One Aspire S3 Ultrabook Each Day Through December 31st
Acer has announced a Facebook campaign where users can get a free Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook. In order to join the competition, users need to like the sweepstake page...
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