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Lenovo, Best Buy Now Accepting Pre-orders for IdeaPad Yoga 11s Convertible

Posted 05/16/2013 at 7:56am | by Paul Lilly

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Is Yoga in your summer plans?

Lenovo first began showing off its IdeaPad Yoga 11S at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this past January, and now four months later, you can place your pre-order on Lenovo's website or through Best Buy, the latter of which will carry the hybrid laptop in stores starting June 23. Why is it called Yoga? Simply put, Lenovo's convertible bends in ways that makes our back ache just looking at it.

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Acer Claims Aspire P3 is the Cat's Meow of Ultrabooks

Posted 05/03/2013 at 11:18am | by Paul Lilly

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Go ahead and use the Aspire P3 as your primary PC, Acer says.

Windows 8 has PC makers gung ho about hybrid form factors that are able to transform from an Ultrabook to a tablet and vice versa, but one of the problems is that some of these systems end up offering half-baked experiences. Acer says that isn't the case with its new Aspire P3, a "new form Ultrabook" the company claims is powerful enough to be your primary PC, yet also able to function as a tablet.

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HP Envy TouchSmart 4 Review

Posted 04/24/2013 at 2:40pm | by Katherine Stevenson

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The most enviable part is the price

This we know: Windows 8 is more usable with a touchscreen, plain and simple. Whether that’s a practical scenario for tower-and-monitor setups is arguable, but it turns out that using touch on a laptop comes pretty naturally—even more so than we expected.

Note: This feature originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of the magazine.

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Windows 8 Hardware Reviews

Posted 04/15/2013 at 3:15pm | by Maximum PC Staff

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Microsoft’s re-imagined OS is only half the equation

As has been reported exhaustively by now, Windows 8 can be a very unsettling experience for longtime Windows users. It’s like going to visit your parents and finding dad decked out in drag. The person you’ve known for so long is still there, but a new, unexpected element to his persona has you flummoxed and fumbling for how to behave.

Note: This feature originally appeared in the January 2013 issue of the magazine.

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Asus Starts Shipping 13.3-inch Dual-Display Taichi

Posted 04/15/2013 at 9:22am | by Paul Lilly

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The Asus Taichi 31 sports two 13.3-inch screens.

After an initial delay pushed the release of the Asus Taichi 31 Ultrabook back several months in the U.S., we were beginning to wonder if the 13.3-inch SKU would ever see the light of the day. We can all stop twiddling our thumbs as Asus said it has finally begun shipping the dual-display Ultrabook stateside. That's great news if you've been jonesing for a Windows 8 Ultrabook with two 13.3-inch panels.

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Samsung's Series 9 Premium Ultrabook Starts at $1,400

Posted 04/11/2013 at 10:23am | by Paul Lilly

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Is there a market for high priced Ultrabooks?

Sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and hope everything works out, which is exactly what Samsung's doing with its new Series 9 Premium Ultrabook. It's a $1,400 Ultrabook that flies in the face of conventional wisdom suggesting Ultrabooks need to come down in price, not go up. In fact, Samsung's newest model is tagged with a price that's more than twice as high as some of its competitors' models. Is it worth the markup?

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Lenovo Says "Customer Insight" Prompted New ThinkPad's Curious Design Changes

Posted 03/18/2013 at 1:20pm | by Paul Lilly

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Even the shade of black on the new ThinkPad is different from before.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the ThinkPad T431s, a new business-class Ultrabook from Lenovo that's the thinnest T series ever built. That in and of itself isn't surprising -- PC manufacturers are making a concerted effort towards building thinner and lighter Ultrabooks and noteboks -- but some of the design changes are certainly interesting. Lenovo bid adieu to a handful of signature features, including the right and left buttons below the trackpad.

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Acer S7 Review

Posted 02/14/2013 at 2:47pm | by Katherine Stevenson

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As capable as it is captivating

As if the Acer S7’s seductively slim figure and supremely good looks weren’t enough, this skinny vixen of a portable also boasts an impressive performance acumen. It must drive the competition crazy.

Note: This review was taken from the March 2013 issue of the magazine.

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Gigabyte Launches Extreme Ultrabook U2442 with Discrete Graphics

Posted 02/08/2013 at 10:15am | by Paul Lilly

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Hey, look who decided to join the Ultrabook party!

Gigabyte this week announced the release of its U2442, an "extreme Ultrabook" for gamers with Nvidia GeForce GT 650M or 730M graphics. On paper, there's quite a bit of power packed into a machine that measures 339mm (W) by 233mm (D) by 18.5-21mm (H) and weighs 1.69kg (3.7 pounds) or less, depending on whether it's configured with a solid state drive (SSD) or mSATA SSD and hard disk drive (HDD) combo.

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Intel Launches SSD 525 mSATA Range for Ultrabooks

Posted 01/28/2013 at 6:02pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Intel’s first 6Gb/s mSATA offering

Intel today announced the launch of a new mSATA solid-state drive. Based on 25nm multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory, the Intel Solid-State Drive 525, as the new drive is called, is the Santa Clara-based chipmaker’s very first 6Gb/s mSATA offering.

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