Tag Archives: Ultrabook
This Beautiful New Asus Ultrabook Is Dripping in Glass
Asus has been busy announcing a slew of new products at Computex in Taipei overnight and, while many of them are deeply unremarkable, a glass-coated ultrabook and updated Transformer Pad Infinity should be enough to pique your interest.Read more...&nb...
This Beautiful New Asus Ultrabook Is Dripping in Glass
Asus has been busy announcing a slew of new products at Computex in Taipei overnight and, while many of them are deeply unremarkable, a glass-coated ultrabook and updated Transformer Pad Infinity should be enough to pique your interest.Read more...&nb...
Best Buy Apple sale: Airs $125 off, 15% off $100 iTunes card, $17 Smart Covers, Bluetooth speakers, Free games, more
From 9to5Toys.com: . Best Buy is taking $125 off the price of MacBook Airs for the next three days to celebrate Mother’s Day. That yields some of the lowest prices we’ve seen. The retailler knocks off $100 across the board, then using code MOM25 knocks off another $25. Prices after discount: 11.6″ MacBook Air 4GB/64GB: $874.99 11.6″ MacBook […]
Hands On With The Toshiba KIRAbook: Can Great Hardware Coupled With An Amazing Display Save Windows PCs?
With PC laptop shipments projected to decline by 7.3% this year, Windows 8 machines desperately need a shot multiple shots of adrenaline. The Toshiba KIRAbook may be just that. The KIRAbook is Toshiba’s first entrant in their newly fashioned “KIRA” line of luxury ultrabooks. At first glance, you can see that the KIRAbook is meticulously designed, and it radiates a Cupertino-esque level of fit and finish. We haven’t seen this kind of quality from Toshiba for a very long time (if ever). That doesn’t mean the KIRAbook offers anything new in terms of design. There are still shades of the Macbook Air to be found here and there, as is the case with all top of the line Windows ultrabooks. The KIRAbook has a smaller profile than the Macbook Air, but somehow manages to include a retina-quality 2560×1440 WQHD touchscreen display. Although I didn’t get an opportunity to compare it side by side with the retina Macbook Pro, or for that matter the Chromebook Pixel, but it’ll definitely be one of the best laptop displays out in the market once it’s released. The display is most certainly the KIRAbook’s marquee feature and Toshiba’s primary justification for its slightly onerous pricing, which I’ll get to in just a moment. Inside the KIRAbook, you’ll find an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. The KIRAbook is also bundled with full versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, as well as a complimentary two year service and support package that Toshiba claims to be on par with Applecare. At least on a spec level, the KIRAbook lives up to its “luxury” label. But that also means it’s saddled with a luxuriously high price. The non-touch KIRAbook with Core i5 starts at $1,599. It gets a little crazy from there. The touchscreen KIRAbook with Core i5 goes for $1,789, while the top of the line touchscreen KIRAbook, with Core i7 and Windows Pro, goes for a whopping $1,999. That kind of pricing blows its PC and Apple counterparts out of the water. For comparison’s sake, the 13-inch Retina Macbook Pro starts at $1,499, albeit with a smaller 128GB SSD. The Lenovo Thinkpad x1 Carbon starts at $1,187, while the touchscreen equipped model starts at $1,319. The Asus Zenbook Prime, with a touchscreen and a nearly retina quality display, is currently retailing for $1,253 on Amazon. Toshiba representatives told
Next-Gen Ultrabooks Will Feature Nuance Voice Recognition [Intel]
It's well-known that Intel is keen for the next swathe of ultrabooks to feature touchscreens. But it also has another wish for the future of svelte computing: it's teaming up with Nuance to outfit upco...
Next-Gen Ultrabooks Will Feature Nuance Voice Recognition [Intel]
It's well-known that Intel is keen for the next swathe of ultrabooks to feature touchscreens. But it also has another wish for the future of svelte computing: it's teaming up with Nuance to outfit upco...
Toshiba’s New 21:9 Widescreen Ultrabook Is All About Entertainment
Most laptops are all the same these days, with very few exceptions. But when those exceptions creep up, we can't help but take a closer look. So is the case with Toshiba's Satellite U845W, which oddly sports a display aspect ratio of 21:9 on a 14.4-inch display. Now, this means that movie buffs will be able to watch 2.35:1 movies on this puppy without any black bars. So it's clear right off the bat: this thing is built for entertainment.
But is it comfortable when you're doing everything else?
We went hands-on with the laptop earlier this month and found a few features that make such a fat, stodgy screen a little more usable.
Toshiba’s New 21:9 Widescreen Ultrabook Is All About Entertainment
Most laptops are all the same these days, with very few exceptions. But when those exceptions creep up, we can't help but take a closer look. So is the case with Toshiba's Satellite U845W, which oddly sports a display aspect ratio of 21:9 on a 14.4-inch display. Now, this means that movie buffs will be able to watch 2.35:1 movies on this puppy without any black bars. So it's clear right off the bat: this thing is built for entertainment.
But is it comfortable when you're doing everything else?
We went hands-on with the laptop earlier this month and found a few features that make such a fat, stodgy screen a little more usable.
Who Wants a 21:9 Cinemascope Ultrabook? [Computers]
Why should ultrabooks be confined to standard laptop screen ratios? Toshiba reckons 16:9 is so last year; 21:9 is where it's at, for full cinema-wide movie viewing with the world's first cinemascope ult...
Matrox goes back to the future with DS-1 Thunderbolt Dock – USB 3.0, DVI, GigE for $249
. Remember all of those ports you used to see on Macs? DVI, Gig Ethernet (har), separate analog stereo in and out? Matrox, a company that used to make mad graphics cards and other video devices is coming to DubDub with a new $249 piece of kit called the DS-1. This box brings you all of those [...]
