Notebooks, iBUYPOWER, Valkyrie CZ-17
iBuyPower has unveiled the Valkyrie gaming laptop. Priced at $1,299, the laptop features a 17.3-inch 1080P LED widescreen display, an Intel Core i7-3610QM processor, a 1.5GB nVidia GeForce GTX 670M graphics card, an 8GB of DDR3-1333 RAM, a 500GB 5400RPM hard disk drive and an 8X DVD+/-RW Combo drive....

Notebooks, Apple, MacBook Pro unibody 15-inch Retina (mid 2012)
Apple just announced its next-generation MacBook Pro, and it comes equipped with a gorgeous 220 pixel-per-inch 2880 x 1800 display. That's quite a bit shy of the 326 ppi LCD on the iPhone 4S and the 264 ppi density of the new iPad's display, but it's still a massive improvement over the 1680 x 1050 pixels...

Notebooks, Apple, MacBook Pro unibody 15-inch Retina (mid 2012)
We’ve seen details surrounding Apple’s upcoming mid-2012 MacBook Pros, Mac Pros and MacBook Air laptops revealed ahead of WWDC 2012, and now a new report claims to reveal preliminary details surrounding a second set of MacBook Pro laptops. According to 9to5Mac, the following three MacBook Pro notebook...

Notebooks, Apple, MacBook Air unibody 11-inch Mid 2012, MacBook Air unibody 13-inch Mid 2012
Apple is expected to unveil a whole new Mac lineup during its Worldwide Developer Conference, and details surrounding new MacBook Air laptops are beginning to emerge. Following a report regarding Apple’s new MacBook Pro and Mac Pro computers from earlier on Monday, 9to5Mac claims to have received preliminary...

Notebooks, Intel
Last month, Intel launched its third-generation processors in the Core family, known as Ivy Bridge. Those chips that launched last month were high-powered versions, not the power sipping, miserly chips that would make their way into notebooks and ultrabooks looking for performance and long battery life....

Notebooks, Graphic Cards, MSI, nVIDIA, GT70 0NC, GE70 0NC
MSI has announced it is now shipping Nvidia's fastest graphics card in its GT70 gaming notebook and introduced two more value-oriented gaming notebooks.

The GTX 675M is essentially a rebranded GTX 580M; it's the second-fastest mobile graphics card available next to the AMD Radeon HD 7970M.

Notebooks, Operating Systems, ASUS, HTC, Google, Chromium OS
Google this week announced a second generation Chromebook model from Samsung, the Series 5 550, which dispenses with the previous generation Chromebook's Atom N570 processor and replaces it with a dual-core Celeron B867 chip sporting Sandy Bridge DNA. That's well and good if you're into Chromebooks,...

Notebooks, Dell, Latitude E6230, Latitude E6330, Latitude E6430, Latitude E6430s, Latitude E6530, Latitude E5430, Latitude E5530, Latitude E6430 ATG
Dell today announced an all-new refresh of the Latitude E-series portfolio of business laptops. The new Latitude E6230, E6330, E6430, E6430s, E6530, E5430, E5530, and E6430 ATG all feature design changes that suggest Dell is trying to strike the proper balance between the trend of consumerization and...

Notebooks, Intel
The "ultrabook" designation doesn't mean too too much, since manufacturers constantly look for ways to skirt around Intel's sorta-arbitrary specs. But just being on Team Intel's gonna get a few new perks, with its new deal to get all ultrabooks free, automatic, no-login access to 5.6 million Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Notebooks, GIGABYTE, X11
The official launch event of the Gigabyte X11, the world's lightest ultrabook, isn't until late on Thursday 31 May in Taipei, but that hasn't stopped us getting our hands on what we've been told are the official press shots of the new laptop thanks to one of our trusted sources.

Notebooks, Desktop Computers, Operating Systems, Samsung, Google, Chromium OS
Google and Samsung on Tuesday announced a new Chromebook and Chromebox computer. Both machines are powered by Google’s cloud-based Chrome OS and are built for speed. Samsung’s newest Chromebook, the Series 5 550, features a 12.1-inch display, an Intel Core processor, 4GB of RAM, an HD Camera, two USB...

Notebooks, Apple
Besides iOS 6 and OSX Mountain Lion, Apple is expected to unveil the redesigned Apple MacBook Pro line featuring Retina Displays. The new MacBooks are likely the only new hardware that will be unveiled at the WWDC 2012 on June 11. The WWDC 2012 will be the first WWDC after the death of Steve Jobs. Let's...

Notebooks, GIGABYTE, X11
Gigabyte is clearly hoping to carve out a name for itself in a very crowded ultraportable space; it sent us word of a media event for a new X11 laptop in its native Taipei on May 31st, just a few days ahead of Computex. The PC designer claims that the X11 will be the "lightest notebook on Earth," a pretty...

Notebooks, Intel
According to a report out of Taiwan, Intel is apparently looking at Sanyo's and BAK's 16650 cylindrical battery as well as prismatic lithium-ion batteries.

The cylindrical battery seems to be the device of choice due to its low cost, but its diameter of 16 mm makes it a challenge to be built into...

Notebooks, ASUS, ZENBOOK UX21E, ZENBOOK UX31E, ZENBOOK UX32A, ZENBOOK UX32VD
First the rumor mill revealed ASUS had plans to refresh Ultrabooks with Ivy Bridge and 1080p IPS displays. Then the company confirmed the news itself when it brought some new Zenbook Prime laptops out for a demo and promised they'd go on sale in ASUS' native Taiwan. Now we've got some splendid news for...