Depending on how you look at it, the new crop of Intel Bay Trail quad core Atom convertible Windows 8.1 tablets are an amazing value or they're just netbooks with detachable screens. In fact both are true, as we learned with the Asus Transformer Book T100, one of the first Windows 8.1 Bay Trail tablets with detachable keyboard that sells for just $349-...
We've waited a long time for the Asus Taichi Windows 8 convertible Ultrabook-tablet, first announced in June 2012, well ahead of Windows 8's official Oct. 26, 2012 launch date. Delayed a few months, the computer is just now hitting stores in its 11.6" Taichi 21 form. The Asus Taichi 31, the 13.3" version with identical specs except the larger display panels and an...
Acer knows Chromebooks, and they, along with Asus rose to market majority when Netbooks were the rage. Acer's Chromebook C710 was a solid, affordable effort and the new Chromebook C720, available soon, is the faster version with Haswell inside. For $249, the C720 seems too good to be true. Honestly, you get a solidly built, though decidedly unsexy machine for the price. It...
Dude, you got a Lenovo Yoga, except it's a Dell. Lots of companies have copied Lenovo's very successful 360 degree hinge design that turns a laptop into a tablet, and now it's Dell's turn. The Dell Inspiron 11 3000 is their counterpart to the Lenovo Yoga 2 11 inch. Both are mid-tier priced 11.6" full Windows 8.1 machines that are designed for the...
Slate design Windows tablets are few and far between these days. Those that are available tend to be expensive vertical market solutions or under-powered and under-sized models from small makers. Asus has entered the market with the game changing Eee Slate EP121, a 12.1” Windows tablet with high end specs generally seen only on expensive verticals at a price that’s consumer-friendly. You’d think...
There are laptops, and then there are ThinkPads. Robust notebooks with a soft touch raven black finish and the best keyboard in the business. So when Lenovo releases a ThinkPad Ultrabook, we take notice. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is Lenovo's first official ThinkPad Ultrabook. Yes, they released the original ThinkPad X1 in May of 2011, but it weighed nearly 4 pounds, had full...
Exquisitely thin and light notebooks are all the rage, and though the 2008 MacBook Air wasn't the first by a mile (Lenovo's own ThinkPad X300 came out around the same time), it set the standard for fashionable, razor thin laptops. Lenovo has once again put their unique ThinkPad spin on the trend, and the result is a powerhouse portable with rugged ThinkPad good...
The Lenovo ThinkPad Twist joins the small number of convertible Windows 8 tablets to hit the market after the launch of that new operating system at the end of October 2012. The Twist looks like a standard ThinkPad or ThinkPad Edge compact system until you open it up and try out the center swivel hinge that allows you to use the Ultrabook like...
The Dell XPS 12 joins the short list of Windows 8 convertible tablet-Ultrabooks to hit the market after that new OS launched in late October. The XPS 12 started shipping in December 2012, and it has everything you love about the XPS line mated to the older Dell Duo's easel-mounted touchscreen. The build is extremely solid, upscale and attractive with Dell's signature carbon...
AMD Athlon NEO CPU notebooks fill the void between netbooks and full sized notebooks. Think of them as the tweeners with higher resolution displays and more powerful CPUs than netbooks, but with greater portability and a lower price than mainstream notebook computers. If you remember the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e we reviewed earlier this year, you will know that the 11.6” ThinkPad ran on...
