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Needless to say, Ivy Bridge is here to stay — at least until Intel takes us on a different road. That being said, Acer just announced a business-oriented machine of its own with Intel’s latest chips onboard. Part of the outfit’s TravelMate lineup, this 14-inch (1366 x 768) P243 rocks some pretty standard features, including a Core i5, Ivy Bridge processor, an HD webcam for all those Skype calls and a USB 3.0 port.
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Acer outs Ivy Bridge-packing TravelMate P243 notebook series in the UK
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve gotten multiple opportunities to talk shop with Samsung executives over the past couple days. After we finished grilling the R&D team on higher-res displays, we sat down with the designers behind the latest Series 9 Ultrabooks, and they surprised us by whipping out a late-stage prototype — aka, a glimpse at what these laptops might have been, were it not for a little extra hemming and hawing and at least one executive veto. You know what they say: a picture tells a thousand words, and we’ve got quite a few embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
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Visualized: What the new Samsung Series 9 could have looked like
We saw a lot of things back at CES, and from the PC makers, it was mainly new Ultrabooks . Samsung , however, did present a pair of “regular” notebooks, and it looks like they’re just about to stretch their legs in the UK. The Series 5 550P is available in 15- and 17-inch varieties, sporting 1366 x 768 and 1600 x 900 displays respectively.
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Samsung outs new Series 5 550P notebook in the UK, Ivy Bridge and numeric keypad onboard
Most laptops being updated to Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors have come from international brands , so it may be some relief to European PC buyers that Acer’s local Packard Bell badge has made the leap as well. The 15.6-inch EasyNote TV and 17.3-inch LV will each use the new 22-nanometer processors both to push performance that little bit farther as well as get a middling five hours of battery life
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Packard Bell EasyNote LV, TV laptops bring Ivy Bridge to speed-hungry Europeans
Nothing stokes the emotional coals like slow-mo drops of water and orchestral strings. That’s at least what the team behind this ASUS promo video seem to think
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New promo video for ASUS N-Series Notebooks makes us want to hug it out
A few days ago, HP accidentally listed the unannounced Envy 4 and 6 on a support page within its American website.
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HP Envy 4 shows up for pre-order on HP’s China site, priced as low as 5,499 yuan
This is a vaguely awkward message for NVIDIA to be putting out.
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NVIDIA: there’s nothing ‘Ultra’ about Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks unless you add Kepler
In the market for a beastly portable gaming rig that won’t break the bank? Origin PC today announced availability of its EON15-S and EON17-S gaming laptops , with pricing starting at $1,525 and $1,576, respectively.
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Origin PC EON15-S and EON17-S gaming laptops available now, priced from $1,525
Know that gadget you’re currently using to read this article? It may be one of 916 million “smart connected devices” that shipped in 2011, with global revenue totaling some $489 billion last year
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IDC: nearly 1 billion ‘smart connected devices’ shipped last year
Can’t say we noticed an extraordinary amount of blowing from our XPS 13 Ultrabook review unit , but for those with an optioned Core i7 model, you may want to give the source link a look. Down there, you’ll find a download link to the A03 BIOS update, which delivers “an updated thermal table which dictates fan speeds and trigger temperatures.” Evidently, these machines have a tendency to kick the fans into high gear prematurely (it’s okay Dell, we all get excited sometimes ), but thankfully, a 4MB package is all that’s required to remedy it. ‘Preciate it, technology.
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Dell issues BIOS update A03 for XPS 13 Ultrabook, gets a handle on fiesty fans
Super Diet Genius plans your meals based on super-healthy superfoods. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET) Diet apps are a dime a dozen
With E3 2012 right around the corner, Reggie and co. want to make sure your oft-distracted eyes catch every drip drop of the impending Wii U news flood.
Sufficiently enamored with Samsung’s Galaxy S III that you’ve got to have one in the US before anyone else, and you don’t want it sullied by carrier customizations in the trip across the Pacific?
We can’t be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company’s statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure “on or around” May 24th. We’re not in love with the “around” terminology, but this could simply be due to a high amount of demand.
The digital gTar never needs tuning. (Credit: Incident Technologies) At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation
(Credit: Pentax) I have to admit: the $900 Pentax K-30 dSLR sounds like a pretty promising replacement for the K-r. Rugged on the outside with the potential for the same excellent photo quality as the K-01 mirrorless ILC, claimed faster autofocus performance than the already fast K-5, and a 100 percent coverage viewfinder that you usually only see in more expensive models all add up to a possibly great start to the Pentax-Ricoh era. Though it’s not “durable” in the same sense as bodies like the Nikon D4 or Canon EOS-1D X , with parts designed to withstand heavy photographic abuse, the K-30 offers weather-and-dust resistance, with claims of usability down to 14 degrees (most cameras only guarantee down to 32 degrees); that said, Pentax makes no claims about battery life at those temperatures.
House After eight seasons, the run of Gregory House MD comes to an end on Fox tonight with a double episode. While we’ll miss Hugh Laurie fumbling around on our American TV screens every week, it definitely felt like time for the series to come to an end. We’ll see how Wilson’s cancer diagnosis wraps up and if any other old characters stop by after Thirteen popped up last week, although we will avoid throwing back a Vicodin just for old time’s sake.
You wait for one Thunderbolt-compatible motherboard and then two decide to arrive on the same day.
Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware , a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy — you’re no longer limited to light switches
Come summer, the 4G LTE-ready Motorola Droid Maxx will also be global-ready. Wondering when you can take your Verizon Android phone overseas without hassle?
