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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
The Samsung Series 5 Ultra is the company's first foray into the Ultrabook market (if you don’t count the Series 9, which predates the Ultrabook brand). There's just one problem: It weighs nearly 4 pounds, and measures 0.82 inch thick. In other words, this 14-inch laptop is closer to a regular ol' ultraportable than it is to an Ultrabook.
By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 01 April, 2012 06:03
A new category of thin and light Windows 7 laptops called ultrabooks has emerged in the past few months, but questions remain about whether the time is ripe to buy or to wait for Windows 8 models with features like touchscreens.
By Agam Shah | 13 March, 2012 06:14
I think the idea of the "post-PC era" needs some clarification. There is much hoopla and fanfare being dedicated to dwindling PC sales, and the idea that tablets - specifically the Apple iPad - are going to be the death knell for PCs. It's not a "death", it's an "evolution" and the tablet is just the new PC.
By Tony Bradley | 12 March, 2012 02:02
You don't need to be a Steve Jobs to see that as laptops become ever thinner and tablets become more and more popular, convergence of the products is inevitable. As that day approaches, Apple is preparing to be ready for it.
By John P. Mello Jr. | 17 November, 2011 11:09
Acer has launched a notebook that is part of the 'Ultrabook' class of laptops unveiled by Intel at the May/June Computex trade show in Taiwan. The Acer Aspire S3 is a 13.3-inch notebook that weighs 1.35kg — about the same weights as the 13-inch model of Apple's ultraportable MacBook Air.
By TechWorld staff | 08 September, 2011 13:30
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