Netbook Reviews

The upcoming Intel Cedar Trail platform / the Intel Atom D2700 processor has been benchmarked by Mike over at NetbookLive.

Mike got his hands on the new 12-inch Asus Lamborghini VX6S netbook featuring the next-generation Intel Atom D2700 CPU and the powerful AMD Radeon 6470M GPU (graphics), and put it against the older Pine Trail/ION2 powered Lamborghini VX6.

Asus have just shaken up the tablet world once again announcing their new Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime at AsiaD.

The new tablet which has until now been know as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer 2, has the same form factor and transforming feature as the original, but the new Prime is “faster, stronger, slimmer, and of course, sexier.”

Asus have today announced the UK launch of their highly anticipated new sliding tablet, the Asus Eee Pad Slider.

The Google Android powered tablet PC with a built in, slide out QWERTY keyboard will be available from PC World, and Currys in store and online from October 24th.

Asus first shook up the tablet world with their Eee Pad Transformer tablet, which with its docking keyboard unit transformed into a netbook. Now their latest revolutionary tablet, the Asus Eee Pad Slider is finally available in the U.S!

The Asus Slider is a hybrid tablet with a keyboard which slides out from under the tablet, converting it in to a kind of netbook / laptop form factor. This makes the Asus Eee Pad Slider a very productive tablet.

Asus have announced two very impressive Ultrabooks, the 13.3-inch Asus UX31 (which we will be covering here), and the smaller 11.6-inch Asus UX21.

The Asus UX31 ultrabook has a 13.3-inch display with a very high 1600 x 900 pixel resolution (higher than many 15.4-inch laptops), and is remarkably thin at just 0.67-inches, the same as the smaller 11.6-inch UX21. The weight is also very light at just 1.1 kg (2.4 lbs), which is 250g (0.56lbs) lighter that the current 13-inch MacBook Air. So the UX31 really is lighter than Air.

The Acer Aspire 3951 Ultrabook has been leaked by the means of a hands on from HDBlog (Now removed).

The Acer 3951 is the first ultrabook from Acer, and is expected to be available in a few months for around $799. The 13.3-inch thin and light laptop slots itself into the new “Ultrabook” category which Intel announced back in May this year.

With either a 128GB SSD, or a 250GB / 500GB hard drive the Acer Aspire 3951 ultrabook covers all areas.

The long awaited and revolutionary Asus Eee Pad Slider tablet is finally available for pre-order in the US.

The Asus Slider tablet is available for pre-order from just $479 for the 16GB version.

The slider was announced at the beginning of the year along with the very popular (and best selling) Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet, which is available with an optional keyboard accessory which also contains a touchpad, extra battery and ports, essentially turning it into a Android powered laptop. The Asus Eee Pad Slider on the other hand is the very first tablet on the market which contains a built in keyboard, which is accessed by, you guessed it, sliding the tablet.

MSI have just released an updated version of their X370 13.4-inch laptop. This new version called the MSI X370-206US / MSI X370-205US is the first laptop in the U.S to feature the new 1.65GHz dual core E-450 Fusion APU.

This new APU / CPU only adds an increase of just 0.05Ghz to the CPU’s clock speeds over the older E-350 chip. But the new E-450 APU does add a new Turbo feature for on the fly optimization of the CPU core speeds and the Radeon HD 6320 GPU core.

The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, which runs Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb is now available for pre-order directly from Lenovo, with prices starting from $499.

The ThinkPad Tablet is similar to their IdeaPad but is aimed more at business users, and brings with it a number of enterprise features.

While a quick glance at the ThinkPad’s specifications makes it look a lot like most other Honeycomb tablets on the market, it does have a number of features that sets it apart from the crowd.

Logitech have just released a new keyboard accessory for the iPad 2. The “Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad” is exactly what you would expect, it’s a keyboard which is split into two halves and unfolds to connect together to form a full QWERTY keyboard.

Unlike most other folio-style keyboards for the iPad, the Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard is fully sized for comfortable and accurate typing.

When the keyboard is in use it holds the iPad at an ideal angle for typing and using the pad. When the keyboard is not in use and you want to move the iPad, the keyboard rests securely underneath the iPad 2.