thin and light

Acer Aspire 1551 hits retailers with 1.5GHz dual-core Turion II CPU

Looking for a netbook with a little more oomph, or perhaps a thin-and-light laptop that doesn’t break the bank? We’re not quite sure which category the Acer Aspire 1551-5448 falls under, but we reckon it’s liable to satisfy both camps with an 11.6-inch LED-backlit display and a 1.5GHz AMD Turion II Neo K625 CPU.


Acer Aspire Timeline X laptops arrive stateside sans ULV processors

Acer’s Timeline X laptops have been popping up around the world for over three months now, but the thin and light machines are finally making their way to this side of the globe, and we can only hope they’re as excited as we are.


Gateway gets snazzy with glowing touchpads on EC39C and ID49C08u laptops

Who needs a backlit keyboard when you have a backlit touchpad? Okay, that’s really a rhetorical question, but Gateway’s newest 13.3-inch EC339C and 14-inch ID49C08u do in fact have glowing blue touchpads. The pad itself only lights up when you put your finger to it, and like HP’s ClickPads have integrated mouse buttons


Barbie’s Samsung X170 thin-and-light is her only part made to scale

As long as we’re corrupting our daughters with an improbable baseline for bodily perfection, we might as well extend that reach to portable computing, right?


ASUS U30Jc on sale today, come get your Optimus-ized Core i3 in a thin and light package

Lusting for the ultimate compromise between a desktop replacement and an ultraportable computer? The ASUS U30Jc might — in spite of its generic name — be just the ticket for you, since it packs in a 2.26GHz Intel Core i3-350M CPU plus an NVIDIA GeForce GT310M graphics chip, which will be used in the most efficient fashion possible thanks to the addition of that newfangled Optimus auto-switching technology . ASUS also manages to fit in an optical drive, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB hard disk (5,400RPM), HDMI-out, WiFi, and the usual webcam and mic.


LG’s ultraslim X300 launching in Asia, Middle East and South America this month

An 11.6-inch display fit within a thickness of 17.5mm.