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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]
Panasonic Toughbook Executive CF-T8 review
Reviews This notebook is quite thick for an ultraportable, measuring 4.93cm at its maximum; this is partly due to the thicker than usual casing for the lid section, which provides plenty of protection for the screen.
[February 25, 2009, 15:03]
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 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]
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]
Sony VAIO VGN-Z11WN/B review
Reviews It's an ultraportable weighing just 1.5kg, and so is eminently portable. As befits and ultraportable aimed at mobile professionals, communications features are exemplary. This rather large footprint (for an ultraportable) is due to the display.
[November 25, 2008, 13:02]
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]
Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile U9210 review
Reviews The ESPRIMO U9210 is a relatively hefty (but still sub-2kg) HSDPA-equipped 12.1in.ultraportable, starting at £726 (ex. For an 'ultraportable', the U9210 packs a relatively hefty 1.95kg. The U9210 may be on the bulky side for an ultraportable, but...
[December 9, 2008, 15:08]
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]
AMD chip bundle targets 'ultra-thin' notebooks
News Before today, there was a compromise associated with selecting a highly portable notebook, forcing consumers to choose either the full PC experience of an ultraportable at a high price or the limited PC experience of a mini-notebook at a low price...
[January 6, 2009, 14:35]
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 Portégé R500.
[March 20, 2008, 10:00]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P8020 review
Reviews The LifeBook P8020 is a 12.1in.ultraportable weighing 1.3kg. Ultraportable notebooks can suffer from cramped keyboards, and the P8020's is indeed a little small. The P8020 is a particularly well connected ultraportable.
[April 7, 2009, 16:53]
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]
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]
Sony VAIO VGN-TT11WN/B review
Reviews Last year's VAIO Z11WN/B was a 13.1in.ultraportable weighing 1.5kg, but the 11.1in. The 11.1in.screen is small even by ultraportable standards, and its native resolution of 1,366 by 768 pixels won't suit every kind of work environment.
[January 28, 2009, 10:05]
HP Mini 2140 review
Reviews By expanding the keyboard right to the edges of the system, HP has managed to fit bigger keys into the tray than other netbooks (and even ultraportable notebooks). A dual-core ultraportable, such as Lenovo's U110 was clearly faster, especially when...
[February 3, 2009, 14:34]
Gateway's priceless notebooks review
Reviews The model we had intended to review, the NO20, is a 12.1in.ultraportable with a 1,280-by-800-pixel LED-backlit screen. Disappointingly for an ultraportable, none of the variants include mobile broadband, although Draft-N Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 are...
[May 26, 2009, 9:52]
