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Not An Ultraportable??
Talkback Your story says that the Air is not quite an ultraportable. Seems pretty ultraportable to me! On what basis?
[January 16, 2008, 21:32]
The Best Ultraportable Of Its Era
Member Review That said, it is still am amazing piece of hardware that fulfills all of the promises of the ultraportable laptop back then, and even today. The ThinkPad X22 is a pre-Centrino ultralight laptop. That means that it doesn't get the amazing battery...
[August 21, 2006, 14:44]
New Business Ultraportable From Sony
Blog A 1.13kg ultraportable with a 12.1in.screen and an integrated optical drive, the VAIO G11 is designed to appeal to business travellers with its robust carbon-fibre laminate contstruction for the case and lid, acceleration-sensing technology that...
[January 31, 2007, 15:04]
New Business Ultraportable From Sony
Blog Comment That laptop does indeed look good - apart from the price that is! I'd be interested to see how it actually performs, especially that battery life of 9 hours.
[February 13, 2007, 16:25]
Macworld Speculation Focuses On Ultraportable
News As the Macworld expo gears up to open on Tuesday, the greatest amount of speculation about new products centres on a possible ultramobile MacBook laptop. Analysts and the media have suggested that a new notebook computer, with half the thickness of...
[January 14, 2008, 17:03]
New Business Ultraportable From Sony
Blog Comment Well of course, if you're always waiting for the next new-and-improved model, you'd never buy anything! I'm sure you'll be very happy with your '007' VAIO.
[February 1, 2007, 13:32]
New Business Ultraportable From Sony
Blog Comment Damn! I just bought the previous model, completely convinced by the fact that James Bond had one. At 1.69Kg this new model is a significant improvement on the weight front although the screen is slightly smaller.
[January 31, 2007, 23:51]
Lenovo Debuts New Small-business Notebooks And Services
Blog With Intel and Vodafone along for the ride, Lenovo today launched a brand-new SL range of small-business-focussed ThinkPads, refreshed the T series (performance), R series (mainstream) and X series (ultraportable) notebooks, and introduced the W...
[July 15, 2008, 16:02]
Definition...
Talkback This is what the reviewer is referring to when he says it's 'not quite an ultraportable'. Many people will find the MacBook Air perfectly 'ultraportable', as you point out; others may prefer a more compact device such as the Asus Eee (which is also...
[January 17, 2008, 7:25]
Palm's Foleo Gets Cool Reception
News Ultraportable laptop sales only accounted for 1.5 percent of the US retail PC market in the fourth quarter of last year — the busiest PC shopping season — said Samir Bhavnani, an analyst with Current Analysis West.
[May 31, 2007, 10:16]
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. I'm off on holiday tomorrow (hurrah!
[August 8, 2007, 15:05]
On The Floor At Macworld 2008
News Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled the new ultraportable computers during his keynote address. The Apple display at Macworld 2008 on Tuesday featured MacBook Airs hanging from the ceiling. Macworld attendees get a chance to interact with the new...
[January 17, 2008, 11:00]
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]
MacBooks And Ultraportables Get HSDPA
News Vodafone has extended its "3G Broadband" functionality to MacBooks, ultraportable laptops and ultra-mobile PCs. Like the earlier datacard, this modem give high-speed wireless access over Vodafone's network, but unlike the datacard, it can be used...
[August 2, 2006, 13:35]
A Tale Of Two Vista Systems
Blog The first was a nice ultraportable ThinkPad X60, with 512MB of RAM and integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics. I've upgraded two systems to Windows Vista over the past few months, with vastly different results.
[August 22, 2007, 10:10]
Gateway Plays Early Bird With Laptops
News The San Diego-based PC company will introduce an ultraportable laptop weighing less than three pounds and a consumer model with a $999 starting price. The notebooks will be the first pair among many from other PC makers in the next couple of weeks...
[July 23, 2001, 10:34]
Sony Goes Wireless With Bluetooth Kit
News From next week, buyers will have a choice of two ultraportable VAIO models featuring an integrated Bluetooth module, antenna and software. Bluetooth, the 2.4GHz wireless technology designed to facilitate ad hoc Personal Area Networks (PANs), has...
[June 15, 2001, 10:11]
Wireless Standards: The Early Years
Blog Comment But it remains a lot of fun for those who are that way minded; I'm contemplating using an Asus Eee ultraportable (built-in webcam) and my FT-817 as a backpack SSTV station next summer, something that would be utterly impossible without the new...
[December 7, 2007, 12:07]
Canonical Releases Ubuntu MID Edition
News A mobile internet device (MID) — a concept Intel is aggressively promoting — is a mobile device that is larger and more like a normal computer than, for example, an Apple iPhone, but smaller than an ultraportable PC.
[June 25, 2008, 9:20]
Companion Device?
Talkback If you add a Bluetooth keyboard, all you've got is an underpowered and somewhat unwieldy £800 ultraportable, and in our opinion there are better alternatives available. You mention that you use your Q1 as a 'companion device' -- do you mean that it...
[July 24, 2007, 11:25]
