ThinAndLight
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.
Lenovo ThinkPad bumps bring X201, X201s, X201t, W701, and W701ds into the Core i7 fold
Lenovo’s giving some of its ThinkPad flagships a nice little spec overhaul, specifically the X200 series of ultraportables and the spectrum-leaping W700 hardlyportable dual screen laptop. The new X201 and X201s start things off with a new option for touchpads on the 12.1-inch form factor, options for Core i7 and Core i5 processors, and sub-three pound weigh-ins on at least the 4-cell configuration
Dell Latitude 13: a thin-and-light for big business
Dell is serious about its thin and light class of machines judging by its ability to churn out these lovely lappies from its Adamo design studio. Today we’ve got the Latitude 13. Oh sure, it looks almost exactly like the Vostro v13 for small businesses but this is Latitude brother, Dell’s mainstream business brand
Acer not making a tablet, will focus on ultra-thin laptops
We’re sort of loving Acer’s new bad-boy vibe — not only have company execs recently gone on record saying that US PC manufacturers will be dead within 20 years and that they want to ” change the Microsoft-Intel environment ” with Chrome OS , but now they’re standing firm while everyone else races to do a tablet.
