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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, May 02, 2012
Eurocom added the newest AMD Radeon HD 7970M GPU to the EUROCOM Racer 2.0 notebook. The EUROCOM Racer 2.0 is a 15.6-inch small form factor notebook that uses the Intel Mobile HM 77 Express chipset and supports the full line of 22nm Ivy...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 02, 2012
You know we're always looking out for you guys and gals, right? Good, because it's in that vein that we want to give you a heads up on a semi-killer deal for an Ultrabook. Daily Steals, a site we've ordered from before, is selling a...
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Jennifer Johnson - Tue, May 01, 2012
Samsung announced the Samsung Series 7 Gamer laptop. This laptop features a mode-changing dial that lets you switch between four modes: Gaming, General, Quiet, and Power Saving. These preconfigured modes can quickly switch on and off components and optimize settings for the mode chosen. The Series 7 Gamer features a 3rd generation Intel...
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Jennifer Johnson - Mon, Apr 30, 2012
Hot on the heels of Origin and Maingear's 11-inch notebook announcements, Eurocom announced the new 11.6-inch Monster 1.0. This notebook offers a good amount of power in its small body including an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 2GB of video memory, Intel's i7-3820QM Ivy Bridge processor, 16GB of...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 30, 2012
Dell has trouble envisioning a long-term market for 11.6-inch gaming PCs and is apparently discontinuing its Alienware-brand M11x laptop, but when it comes to Ultrabooks, the OEM needs no further convincing than its XPS 13. The Dell XPS 13 (our full detailed review with video demo) is...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 30, 2012
A translated press release revealed that Samsung was busy readying an upgraded Series 7 notebook with Ivy Bridge internals for the Korean market, but lo and behold, a product page just popped up in the U.S. We don't know when the new models will start shipping -- and perhaps some stores are...
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Jennifer Johnson - Mon, Apr 30, 2012
Asus launched the new Republic of Gamers (ROG) G75VW and G55VW notebooks which feature Intel 3rd generation Core i7 processors. These new G-Series laptops also offer NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M/670M GPUs with up to 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM, up to 16GB of DDR3 DRAM, and support for dual hard drives in...
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Jennifer Johnson - Sun, Apr 29, 2012
ORIGIN PC announced its smallest laptop yet in the form of the new EON11-S laptop. This powerful and lightweight laptop features Intel’s new 3rd Generation “Ivy Bridge” Core processors along with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Apr 28, 2012
Gamers on the go were saddened to learn that Dell plans to discontinue the Alienware M11x, a potent gaming laptop about the size of a netbook but much, much more powerful. Well, wipe away those tears because small size gaming laptops still...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Apr 25, 2012
NZXT announced the Cryo E40 notebook cooler for laptops up to 15 inches. Unlike other notebook coolers, the Cryo E40 features two 80mm moveable fans that let you target your notebook's hot spots. The fans use low-powered magnetic clasps to give you flexibility in positioning them exactly where...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 23, 2012
The 17-inch MacBook might not be long for this world. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities, there's a good chance Apple will decide to discontinue the 17-inch SKU following an upcoming refresh, MacRumors reports. As...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Apr 22, 2012
Asus is getting ready to roll out its first 15.6-inch G-Series notebook for gamers. How do we know? Well, the aggressive looking laptop reportedly appeared (briefly) online at HID Evolution, a computer, electronics, and mobile devices e-store that started out by selling products on eBay. According to Laptoping, the Asus G55VW-DS71 went live...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Did you know that netbooks were still being sold on contract? Not too many still are, and we're guessing they never really went over too well, but Sprint's taking another whack at 'em with the launch of the WiMAX-enabled IdeaPad S205s from Lenovo. The "mini notebook" boasts an Intel dual-core...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 13, 2012
MSI today unveiled its new CX70 and CR70 17.3-inch multimedia laptops with Nvidia GeForce 600 series discrete mobile graphics and support for Intel's new generation Core i processors (read: mobile Ivy Bridge), along with cinema-level SRS...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 11, 2012
Don't expect the Ultrabook market to grow stale in 2012. On the contrary, Intel on Wednesday revealed that there are no less than 75 new models currently in the pipeline, not all of which stick with the the run-of-the-mill Ultrabook blueprint. New form factors are en route, including hybrid...
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Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Toshiba announced three new tablets, a number of laptops, and two All-in-One desktop PCs today. Included in the list of new tablets are the 10.1-inch Excite 10, the Excite 13 which features a large 13.3-inch HD display, and the Excite 7.7 which features a 7.7-inch AMOLED display. All of the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 06, 2012
If you want to see an Ultrabook wet itself, just plop Eurocom's new Panther 4.0 mobile workstation next to one. Battery life be damned, you can't help but be intimidated by a system packing this much power in a mobile form factor. We're talking about a 17.3-inch notebook that packs up to an...
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Jennifer Johnson - Fri, Apr 06, 2012
MSI announced the GT60 and GT70 gaming laptops at CeBIT. These laptops feature Intel’s Core i7 quad-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M discrete graphics with 3GB of GDDR5 of display memory, the Super RAID Dual SSD, up to 32GB of memory, Bigfoot Gaming LAN, and a SteelSeries gaming...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, Mar 31, 2012
NVIDIA’s new GTX 675M mobile GPU is making its way into systems, and the latest is available from custom builder AVADirect. The company announced that the GTX 675M is available in its Clevo P270WM gaming notebook; it’s even...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 30, 2012
Intel has never been bashful about the fact that it envisions Ultrabooks selling for less than a grand, and as time goes on, we're starting to see more and more models hit that sub-$1,000 price point. One of the better looking deals out there can be found at Walmart, where you can pick up a new model Hewlett-Packard Folio 13 for $798, which...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 28, 2012
Desktop replacement systems aren't for everyone. They're typically, big, heavy, and comparatively short on battery life, making them the polar opposites of Ultrabooks and other thin and light systems that last for hours on end. So why...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 15, 2012
For those of you who aren't tripping over yourselves racing to the store to pick up a lightweight Ultrabook and demand something bigger and beefier, rest assured there are companies that still believe in the desktop replacement category...
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