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Photos: MacBook Air review
Reviews Surprisingly, Apple's long-awaited ultraportable notebook doesn't mark a return of some form of the 12in. The keyboard is keyThe benefit of having an ultraportable with a larger screen aside from the additional screen space is having a full...
[January 16, 2008, 8:46]
ThinkPad X41 Tablet: A First Look review
Reviews The convertible ThinkPad X41 Tablet -- the first ThinkPad release from new owner Lenovo -- offers the type of keyboard, processor and features you'd expect to find in an ultraportable notebook. It also offers the kind of features you can find in...
[June 7, 2005, 10:00]
Motion LS800 Tablet PC: A First Look review
Reviews About the size of a paperback book and weighing 1kg, the slate-style LS800 Tablet PC from Motion Computing occupies the grey area between a Pocket PC handheld and an ultraportable notebook. With a 1.2GHz ultra-low-voltage Pentium M 753 processor...
[July 11, 2005, 16:25]
Sony VAIO VGN-TZ11XN/B review
Reviews The VAIO VGN-TZ11XN/B definitely qualifies as an ultraportable notebook, weighing 1.19kg including the battery and a built-in optical drive, and measuring 27.7cm wide by 19.8cm deep by and 2.25-2.98cm thick.
[September 11, 2007, 13:08]
Apple MacBook Air: A First Look review
Reviews As was heavily predicted before its unveiling, Apple's new notebook, called the MacBook Air, is not quite an ultraportable but it is extremely slim. Bluetooth (2.1+EDR) and 802.11n were expected, but the lack of an optical drive is a surprise...
[January 16, 2008, 7:29]
Dell Latitude D400 review
Reviews We found the screen, especially at its native 1,024 by 768 resolution, to be bright and crisp -- especially for an ultraportable notebook. The D400's dimensions, however, are standard for a business-class ultraportable: 29.4cm wide, 24.5cm deep and...
[July 22, 2003, 8:48]
Fully Equipped: The Mobile Professional review
Reviews What you select will vary according to what you do: if you require no-compromise productivity on the road, for example, you'll need a well-featured 'thin-and-light' notebook; as portability becomes more important, you'll consider ultraportable...
[November 26, 2007, 12:44]
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 review
Reviews The notebook lacks some features that would be considered standard on an ultraportable, such as an expansion card slot or multiformat memory card reader, both of which are found on the Toshiba Port้g้ R500.
[March 20, 2008, 10:00]
ThinkPad X41 review
Reviews One of the smallest and lightest ultraportable notebooks available, the black wedge-shaped ThinkPad X41 has a petite 26.8cm by 21.1cm footprint; the front edge measures a razor-sharp 2.1cm thick, although the rear bulges to 2.7cm.
[July 5, 2005, 16:05]
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HEP review
Reviews It's common for ultraportable systems to lack a floppy drive, and many have also shed their optical drives in the quest for a slimmer, lighter form factor. Keyboards have been the undoing of many a ultraportable, but the R600HEP gets things mostly...
[December 4, 2001, 23:00]
Sony VAIO T1 Series: A First Look review
Reviews Finally, this ultraportable notebook offers several ways to get online, including a 56Kbps modem, card, Bluetooth (1.2) and 802.11b/g wireless networking. That's exactly what Sony's crafty designers seem to have done with the brand-new VAIO T1...
[September 14, 2004, 9:10]
Ultraportable Notebooks review
Reviews They're also two of the most difficult things to combine in a sub-2kg ultraportable system: fast processors need cooling systems; screens and keyboards must fit into restricted spaces yet remain usable, for example.
[April 22, 2002, 15:15]
Dell Latitude X1: A First Look review
Reviews Built on the same design as Samsung's beautiful Sens Q30 (which is sold only in Asia), the Latitude X1 joins the small but growing ranks of sub-2kg ultraportable notebooks. Dell insists that ultraportable notebooks do not need a built-in optical...
[April 1, 2005, 8:10]
Travelling Light: Replacing Your Notebook With A Palm review
Reviews Do you find even an ultraportable notebook too much to carry? A key reason for travelling with a notebook for many business-folk is the need to give presentations. Still, this is certainly enough for finishing letters and simple reports without...
[March 18, 2004, 23:05]
Macworld: Jobs Demos New MacBook Air
News At Macworld 2008 in San Francisco on Tuesday, Apple chief Steve Jobs showed off the company's new ultraportable notebook, the MacBook Air. The new notebook is 0.76-inch thick and runs on Intel's Core 2 Duo with both 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz options.
[January 16, 2008, 13:59]
Sony VAIO TR1: A First Look review
Reviews This 1.4kg ultraportable Centrino notebook resembles two other systems -- the Fujitsu LifeBook P series (available in the US but not yet in Europe) and Sony's discontinued C series. At first glance, all of this yields a great-looking, highly...
[June 11, 2003, 11:19]
IBM ThinkPad X40: A First Look review
Reviews IBM has put its popular ultraportable, the ThinkPad X series, on the Atkins diet. The X40 is also about 20 percent smaller, making it by far the tiniest notebook the company has yet offered in the UK market.
[February 6, 2004, 10:50]
The Vista Future Isn't Orange
Blog and like a sad geek (sorry, technology journalist), I thought I'd take an ultraportable notebook and a 3G datacard along with me just to keep in touch with news and current affairs, you understand. But that's no comfort to the many early adopters...
[August 8, 2007, 15:05]
Photos: Palm Foleo review
Reviews Judging by its looks, you'd think the Palm Foleo was just an ultraportable notebook or UMPC. Is it a notebook? The big unveil After months of talking about a new product category for Palm, the company's cofounder, Jeff Hawkins, finally unveiled the...
[May 31, 2007, 8:53]
ASUS R2H Ultra Mobile PC review
Reviews However, like the Q1, it does nothing that an ultraportable notebook cannot, and we're not certain that, outside a few vertical niches, it's a compelling choice for business users. It weighs 830g, which is not far off the lightest ultraportable...
[December 5, 2006, 13:53]
