As I work on updating and revamping Small-Laptops.com, as the website heads into the 20th year of it being online, my current (PC) ultraportable of choice has been a refurbished 13-inch ThinkPad X1 Nano (i5, 1st generation). I bought it about 4 months ago (eBay) … Read more
DigiTimes is reporting that Intel and other companies are looking at alternative materials for ultrabooks. Magnesium-aluminum is the preferred choice of materials for ultrabook chassis, but there are only a limited number of lathes that can handle such chassis. Two of the largest owners of … Read more
DigiTimes is reporting that Acer, Asustek (ASUS), Dell, HP (Hewlett-Packard), and Lenovo are going to be launching ultrabooks later in 2011, with production starting up in September. Acer, Lenovo, and Asustek have already been mentioned a lot, especially with Asustek’s UX21 being one of the … Read more
I guess it’s no surprise. Several websites were reporting that Apple was going to discontinue the MacBook, and Apple has now removed the 13-inch Intel Core 2 Duo powered laptop from it’s main website as of yesterday, July 20, 2011. This was the last of … Read more
We knew that Intel would be formally introducing Sandy Bridge at CES 2011 in January. These are the second generation of Intel’s Core CPUs/platform. One of the major features would be moving the graphics processing completely onto the processor and sharing cache in a much … Read more