Month: January 2006

Acer Announces Dual-Core/Core Duo 3010 Ultraportable

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Acer has announced an Intel Centrino Core Duo (Dual-Core) powered ultraportable notebook. It’s the Acer TravelMate 3010, and it has a 12.1-inch widescreen display. They list it as weighing around 1.5kg, and mention that it has a buit-in camera (including video conferencing software from Acer). It also has some kind of “Anti-Theft” capability (safe to say it’s probably something more than a cable lock).

As I know more, I’ll update the link above.

Official Press Release

Updated: ASUS W5F System Specs, W5Ae

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ASUS has released full system specifications for their new Intel Core Duo powered 12-inch ultraportable, the ASUS W5F. Being as how this is one of the first Core Duo ultraportables, it’s generating a lot of buzz.

I’ve added a new page, for the ASUS W5Ae. Even though it’s an upgraded W5A, it was given a seperate model number, and so I shall treat it as a seperate model.

Top 15 Ultraportable Laptops of 2005

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I have compiled a list of the top 15 ultraportable laptops, based on page views here at Ultraportable Laptops and Notebooks. Page views aren’t the most accurate way to gauge what the best laptop is, however they do reflect the amount of interest, and in this case I used both page views of the laptops as well as news stories. It covers October (when we moved to the small-laptops.com domain) through the end of December, 2005, however based on what I’ve read over the past year or so, and the amount of press certain laptops have received, I feel it’s probably fairly accurate – it includes a mix of both older laptops that were refreshed last year as well as new models. Where there were varying models between regions, I’ve taken that into account and added them together (under their most common model name).

Announced: First of the Intel-Powered Apple Laptops

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Apple has announced the first of their Intel-powered portable lineup , and it’s not an ultralight 13-inch widescreen iBook as so many have rumored – instead it’s a 15-inch “MacBook Pro“. The new MacBook Pro is powered by an Intel Core Duo 1.67GHz or 1.83GHz CPU.