Toshiba Portege M600 in Korea

Toshiba is launching the Portege M600 in Korea. The Portege M600 has a 13.3″ display, and is powered by Intel Core 2 Duos and Intel’s Santa Rosa (PM965) chipset with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 for graphics processing. It weighs just over 4.2 … Read more

Article: A Buyer’s Guide to Ultraportables (InformationWeek)

InformationWeek has posted their Buyer’s Guide to Ultraportables earlier this week. As Kevin Tofel at jkOnTheRun pointed out, they left out UMPCs and Tablet PC “convertibles” and went for traditional laptops. They highlight one “image” problem (my term), that ultraportable laptops sometimes fall in between … Read more

Announced: HP Compaq 2210b/CT (Japan)

Today, Hewlett Packard announced the HP Compaq 2210b/CT, a new “convertible” ultraportable laptop (it can switch between Tablet PC and laptop form factors with a swiveling screen). Initially it is geared towards the Japanese market, and should ship by the end of this month. Availability … Read more

Asus R1E Details Emerge

Through PC Magazine’s Gearlog site, some more details have emerged about the Asus R1E (we came across some information about a prototype of the Asus R1E a few days ago on a Chinese website (PCPop.com)). This confirmed that it would be available soon and has … Read more

Review: Asus W7S (LAPTOP Magazine)

LAPTOP Magazine has published a review online of the Asus W7S (in this case, the W7S-B1B model). This model pushes what we are labeling a “small” or “ultraportable”, since it has a weight of 4.3 pounds combined with a 13.3″, but it’s definitely lighter than … Read more