Lenovo's investors have to be loving life right about now. The OEM is on top of its game and kept the sales momentum going by announcing yet another strong quarter in which net income (profit) for the three month period ended June topped $141.1 million, up 30 percent year-over-year. Lenovo's PC consumer business in mature markets has more than quadrupled in mature markets since 2008, and the company nearly doubled its PC revenue in emerging markets outside of China, the OEM said.

It might be hard to believe at this point, but there actually exists a mobile computing segment outside of the official Ultrabook category, and not just for AMD systems. Acer's new TravelMate P243 for business users is one such notebook and is built in the mold of a traditional laptop, albeit with a travel-friendly 14-inch display (1366x768 screen resolution). It also has a spill resistant keyboard, so if you spill a cup of coffee in between cities, it won't necessarily shut down your business trip.

Samsung's getting ready to reboot its flagship gaming notebook, the Series 7 Gamer, with a funky fresh yellow paint job, 3D display, and new internals built around Intel's Ivy Bridge platform. As reconstructed, the Series 7 Gamer will sport punchier graphics and faster storage that ventures into solid state drive territory, though it will still feature a 1TB hard drive for storage chores.

As much as we're in love with the Ultrabook category's thin and light form factor, we're not nearly as smitten over the low display resolution that plagues the majority of first and second generation models. Even larger models like Acer's 15.6-inch Timeline and HP's equally sized Envy both sport 1366x768 screen resolutions, while Samsung's 15-inch Series 9 taps out at 1600x900. Well, as luck would have it, I stumbled upon Vizio's online collection of PCs, including a 15.6-inch Ultrabook model that finally gets the resolution right.