Ultrabook
At CES 2021, which switched to a virtual online-only format due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, ADATA has unveiled its latest gaming ultrabook, the XPG Xenia Xe. Based on Intel's Tiger Lake CPU with Xe graphics, the XPG Xenia Xe looks to offer users a portable lifestyle and gaming solution. The new XPG Xenia Xe gaming ultrabook includes a 15.6" 1080p screen, with an IPS touchscreen panel with an 87% screen to body ratio. Available with two different processors, Intel's Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7, or the i5-1135G7, it also benefits from Intel's latest Xe integrated graphics. Designed for ultra-portability, it measures in at just 11 mm thick, with a total weight of 3.6 lb, making it one of the more lightweight options and has an elegant...
Acer at CES: All New Swift 7 Laptop With 92 Percent Screen-to-body Ratio
At CES today, Acer has announced their latest Ultrabook in the Acer Swift 7. Acer has fully embraced the thin-bezel design ethos with the Swift 7 as well, with...
11 by Brett Howse on 1/6/2019Razer’s Blade Stealth 13.3” Laptop Updated With Quad-Core Intel Core i7-8550U CPU
Razer this week has announced that the company is upgrading its 13.3” Blade Stealth laptop with Intel’s new quad-core Core i7-8550U microprocessor, along with faster LPDDR3 memory. This marks...
16 by Anton Shilov on 10/18/2017Razer Updates The Razer Blade Stealth: More Screen, Less Bezel, New Color Option
Ever since Razer entered the Ultrabook market, they have offered a solid laptop in the ultra-portable category. The initial version launched back in 2016, and although it had some...
36 by Brett Howse on 6/14/2017The Acer Aspire S7-393 Review: Broadwell Comes To Acer's Ultrabook
The last time we got a chance to try out the Acer Aspire S7, it was back in 2013. At the time it was a big step up from...
64 by Brett Howse on 10/5/2015The Lenovo ThinkPad T450s Review: Bridging The Ultrabook
Lenovo’s ThinkPad lineup needs almost no introduction, being one of the most well known business lineups around. The T series has been around for what seems like forever, and...
108 by Brett Howse on 9/15/2015The Acer Aspire R 13 Review: Convertible Notebook With A Twist
The world of the convertible notebook has come a long way in just a couple of years, but we seem to have settled in on two basic types of...
25 by Brett Howse on 6/15/2015The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review (2015)
The X1 Carbon has been Lenovo’s flagship ThinkPad since it was launched, and it brings the world of the ThinkPad business class notebook down into a much thinner and...
103 by Brett Howse on 5/21/2015The 2015 MacBook Review
I’m still not entirely sure when it actually happened, but at some point over the last couple of years the crossover between tablets and laptops stopped being an idea...
354 by Ryan Smith on 4/14/2015The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review
It was way back in 2011 that ASUS launched the Zenbook series. The original UX21E and UX31E were the first of the thin and light Ultrabooks from ASUS to...
164 by Brett Howse on 3/25/2015Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review: Refreshed With Faster Core M
It would be fair to say that Lenovo was a pioneer in the convertible Ultrabook lineup with the original Yoga. Last year, they updated the Yoga lineup with the...
113 by Brett Howse on 3/13/2015Dell XPS 13 Review
Dell launched the 2015 version of their XPS 13 at CES in January, and it made a big impression because of something that was very small. The first thing...
201 by Brett Howse on 2/19/2015Toshiba CES 2015 Booth Tour: Encore 2 Write, Portege Z20t, and More
Much like Samsung and Sony, touring the Toshiba booth turned up plenty of devices but not too many laptops – though I’d say out of the big consumer electronics...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/20/2015HP Announces New Business Mobility Devices
HP Announces New Business Mobility Devices Today HP announced a collection of product updates with their “Business-First” approach to mobility; the full press release has all the pertinent details. The...
10 by Jarred Walton on 1/20/2015Samsung CES Booth Tour: Tablets, Phones, and Core M ATIV Book 9
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Samsung’s booth is what they weren’t showing: laptops. They had exactly one laptop on display, the new ATIV Book 9 with Core M-5Y10c...
45 by Jarred Walton on 1/19/2015Lenovo ThinkPad Broadwell Updates for T550, T450s, E550, E450, and L450
Wrapping up the ThinkPad updates for now, Lenovo also announced the T550, T450s, E550, E450, and L450 today. As with the X1 Carbon and X250, these replace the previous...
30 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015Lenovo ThinkPad X250
There’s a theme with the Lenovo updates being announced today: in most cases, the new models are similar to the previous generation, only now with Intel’s Broadwell-U processors in...
20 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon: Broadwell Version
Lenovo has a whole slew of announcements coming out over the next few days, but let’s start at the top with the updated X1 Carbon. The latest iteration upgrades...
25 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015Best High-End Laptops: Holiday 2014
High-End Laptop Recommendations Our holiday guides have covered a lot of products so far, and just on the laptop side of things we've looked at budget laptops, Chromebooks, and mainstream...
85 by Jarred Walton on 12/18/2014Best $1000 Laptops: Holiday 2014
Mainstream Laptop Recommendations So far we've covered the budget laptop sector as well as Chromebooks in our Holiday 2014 Guides, but if you want a good quality laptop that can...
80 by Jarred Walton on 12/5/2014