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Kenyan Ultrabooks splash-down care of Intel
Kenya will be the lucky recipient of reasonably priced Intel Ultrabooks, made especially for the emerging market. Earlier this week, Intel launched six Ultrabooks for the eager Kenyan market, ranging from Kshs 60 000 (US$725) to 90 000 (US$1087). Danie Steyn, Intel East African General Manager says the new laptops are “an evolution”: “Ultrabook devices represent the next step in the evolution of the PC. There is a hunger for a device that can act like a tablet, but that allows for a full ... -
The Toshiba Portégé R380-10R – the beast within
The Toshiba Portégé R380-10R is the first “Ultrabook” (I use inverted commas because the term sickens me) I’ve managed to lay my hands on. It’s thin, dangerously fast and exceedingly powerful. The benchmarks, which I’ll discuss later, paint the picture of laptop ahead of the curve. Let’s find out how I fell in love with the Portégé R380-10R.
Overall design
For a GPB£1 599 (approximately R19 200) laptop, the crazy price seems unjustified by the flimsy design. The screen, and the hinges attached ... -
Seedbook: The double-screened laptop
Ever thought your laptop could use another screen...on the back? If so, the Seedbook is just for you. Gearburn got a look at a prototype of this innovative, and slightly quirky, gadget at CES International 2012 in Las Vegas. The Seedbook is manufactured by a Brazilian startup called SeedTronic and the company plans to bring out a range of its double screened notebooks later in 2012 -- a small tablet sized model, a mid-sized notebook and a large laptop. At the moment, ... -
Acer Aspire S3 ultrabook out globally
Ultrabook madness continues as manufacturers flee the margin-free netbooks and push ultrabooks out the door as fast as possible. Continuing this weeks launches, Acer has got its $900 Aspire S3 out to the rest of the world (it launched in US in October). Good looking, reasonably specced, affordably priced. Welcome to the race to the ultrabook bottom.
While the Aspire S3 may be a bit light on the stuff you want in a modern notebook (no Bluetooth, no USB 3, alloy ... -
LG throws ultrathin Xnote Z330 hat into ultrabook ring
Ultrabooks are hot, hot, hot right now. Netbooks are in serious decline, and some manufacturers are getting out. No, it’s ultrabooks all the way, a category created by Apple with the Macbook Air. Now it’s all super-skinny bodies with 13” displays, solid state drives and full-blooded guts. The LG Xnote Z330 is the first from the Korean manufacturer, and currently the sveltest at 1.2kg and 14mm thick, in a minimalist Air-style case.
The small one feature is the “Shuriken” display tech ... -
Video Review: Vodafone Webbook
It's cheap, it's cheerless, it's the Vodafone Webbbook. It's aimed at the lowest end of the market, as a functional, utilitarian device that lets people that wouldn't have Internet access get online. So the only question is, did it need to be quite so nasty? The Vodafone Webbook feels cheap, runs slowly and seems to offer very little value outside of its pocket-friendly price tag. Can it possibly compete with the lower-priced tablets currently available such as the Kindle Fire?
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Review: Samsung NC215 sun-lovin’ netbook
Save the planet, have infinite battery life, and look good while you're at it. Samsung has produced a 10” netbook with a big ol’ solar panel on the back to let you work and work and work and work. It’s got “green” written all over the promotional flyers, and “green” written into every line of code of the Eco Mode app that lets you be really rather green. Getting back down to earth, it’s a US$400 netbook with a really, ... -
Review: Vodafone Webbook — cheap, plastic, nasty
The Vodafone Webbook is cheap, incredibly cheap (around R1 500 [US$ 184]). As such, criticising it feels a little odd. It’s a bit like taking apart a soup kitchen for not having an internationally renowned wine list or the local corner café for lacking the nuances of haute cuisine in its cooking.
Here’s the thing though, the Webbook feels cheap, something designed to throw to an unwashed proletariat desperate for the democratisation of technology. I get that there’s a reason it ... -
Review: The Samsung NP600 middling mid-range workhorse
The Samsung NP600 is an entirely excellent notebook PC, which is to say about as special as a fried eggs on toast dinner. There's nothing wrong with it, plenty right, and even pretty tasty and filling. This guy is mostly anything you could want in a US$1000 midrange machine, plus top-notch build quality and a magnesium casing to protect the screen, supposedly able to take a small truck driving over it. Great gobs of horsepower, nice bright screen, looks damn ... -
Chromebook awesome if it wasn’t from Google
The Chromebook is slowly coming into focus. Currently manufactured by Acer and Samsung (what? no American laptop brands up for it?), key specs look like this:
Chromebook Specifications (Acer/Samsung):
11.6 or 12.1” display (1280x800)
1.45 or 1.48kg (so pretty light)
2GB RAM, 16GB SSD
6 or 8.5 hours continuous usage (cough)
Intel Atom dual-core processor
Built in dual-band Wi-Fi and optional 3G
HD Webcam
HD audio support
2x USB 2.0 ports
4-in-1 memory card slot
HDMI of mini-VGA port
Chrome keyboard (interstingly, missing a CAPS LOCK key. ...
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