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Atom-based Ultraportables At IDF
News More than a dozen ultramobile computers, powered by Intel's new Atom CPU, were on display at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco this week. Most of these machines come with Linux, but a few offer Windows XP or Vista as an option.
[August 22, 2008, 9:21]
MacBooks And Ultraportables Get HSDPA
News Vodafone has extended its "3G Broadband" functionality to MacBooks, ultraportable laptops and ultra-mobile PCs. After releasing an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) datacard in June, the mobile operator has now brought out a USB version...
[August 2, 2006, 13:35]
Netbook Returns Blamed On Linux 'teething Problems'
News In an interview with Laptop Magazine, MSI said its studies showed its Suse Linux-based ultraportables were returned at a rate four times higher than Windows-based Wind machines. Carr emphasised that even if some users have been disappointed, the...
[October 9, 2008, 16:48]
Apple MacBook Air (1.8GHz) review
Reviews And while the MacBook Air's specs are inferior to those found on the cheaper MacBook, they compare more favourably when you look at other ultraportables, where a price premium is always exacted. However, two of the smallest current ultraportables...
[January 28, 2008, 11:38]
Ultralight Notebooks For Your Business review
Reviews And while it may be tempting to get a larger notebook that seemingly offers more performance for the price, trust us on this -- if you plan to commute with a notebook or spend any time on the road, there are only two types of business notebooks...
[May 18, 2004, 6:55]
Gateway Plays Early Bird With Laptops
News But as they come down in price, we're seeing more consumers buying ultraportables. Sleek ultraportables make up about 15 percent of the notebooks shipped in the industry, said Gateway product manager Ray Sawall.
[July 23, 2001, 10:34]
IDC Adds To Tablet PC Scepticism
News The total US notebook market will be about 13 million units in 2003, IDC predicts, about 8 percent of which will be ultraportables. If pricing is kept low, compared to other ultraportables, then we'll see some unit shipments.mainly into the...
[November 7, 2002, 8:07]
Sony VAIO PCG-VX71P review
Reviews A score of 31 under Business Winstone 2001 shows that it’s well equipped to handle mainstream productivity tasks -- Editors’ Choice ultraportables like Dell’s Latitude C400 and X200 scored 31.5 and 31 respectively.
[July 2, 2002, 18:20]
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX41P review
Reviews The keyboard -- always a potentially touchy issue with ultraportables -- cannot be described as spacious, and you have to use the Fn key to toggle between the doubled-up cursor and page navigation keys: as usual, the nimble-fingered will cope...
[March 25, 2002, 23:00]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P7230 review
Reviews As ultraportables go, the LifeBook P7230 makes a very good job of being small and light. Design Weighing 1.25kg, it's a shade over the 1.19kg Sony VAIO VGN-TZ11XN/B, but is still among the most lightest fully featured notebooks we've seen recently.
[September 27, 2007, 15:07]
Intel Rounds Out Mobile Chip Family
News The low- and ultra-low-voltage Pentium-M versions should increase performance and battery life in the smallest notebooks -- ultraportables and mini-notebooks that weigh 3 pounds or less -- and tablet PCs.
[January 27, 2003, 8:26]
Microsoft Patches XP Laptop Freeze
News The chipset is used widely by PC makers, but only in a specific class of machines known as "ultraportables. Ultraportables generally weigh less than three kilograms. Microsoft has issued a software patch that will reanimate frozen notebook PCs...
[November 5, 2001, 9:44]
IBM ThinkPad X24 review
Reviews Ultraportables -- which are specifically designed for travel -- need to be physically tough, and the X24 seems to fill the bill. Ultraportables have a tendency to run slightly slower than equivalent full-scale notebooks, but the X24 bucked this...
[July 11, 2002, 11:05]
Sony VAIO VGN-TX5XN/B review
Reviews The best ultraportables manage to combine a super-slim, lightweight design with a wide-screen display, and that's precisely what Sony achieves here, building both into a compact notebook weighing just 1.25kg.
[May 15, 2007, 14:29]
Acer TravelMate 6292 review
Reviews Although it's the smallest notebook in the new Santa Rosa lineup, the TravelMate 6292 (302G16N configuration) does not share the slick, sleek and slim outline of genuine ultraportables like Sony’s VAIO VGN-TX5XN/B; nor can it match that machine...
[May 18, 2007, 15:53]
Notebook Design: Ten Things We Love review
Reviews We like screens that are over 800 pixels tall, although clearly trade-offs must be made with netbooks and ultraportables. High-resolution screens Screen resolution is one of the most important usability factors for a notebook, but manufacturers...
[November 14, 2008, 9:13]
The Vista Future Isn't Orange
Blog Now, as Reviews Editor, I get to see quite a few nice ultraportables, and a suitable one presents itself in the shape of Sony's G-series VAIO. I'm off on holiday tomorrow (hurrah! and like a sad geek (sorry, technology journalist), I thought I'd...
[August 8, 2007, 15:05]
Toshiba Satellite Pro U400-10H review
Reviews The screen measures 13.3in.across the diagonal, making this notebook potentially a good compromise between small-screen ultraportables and mini-notebooks and 15in.systems that will be largely desk-bound.
[August 1, 2008, 15:59]
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600HEK review
Reviews Like most ultraportables, the Z600HEK's system unit lacks removable media drives and has a restricted complement of I/O ports and expansion opportunities. The Z600HEK is the 'classic' VAIO notebook design, decked out in the now-familiar metallic...
[April 24, 2001, 0:00]
IBM ThinkPad X31 review
Reviews That's comparable to other ultraportables, despite the X31's relatively large proportions. Design IBM's painstaking industrial design makes the ThinkPad X31 a pleasure to use. Its case is made of a sober-looking, matte-black plastic, with the...
[July 4, 2003, 7:48]
