Lenovo is all set to introduce two new ultrabook series – S3 and S5, both of which will be launched under Thinkpad laptop brand. The Thinkpad S3 features 13 inch display while the S5 will come with 15 inch display. Both are slated to be launched by the end of May in China.

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Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
Tablet or laptop? It’s a commonly posed question nowadays, and has overtaken the PC vs MAC debate. With the ever growing juggernaut that is the tablet market, is the humble laptop still a viable option? The truth is, both have their pros and cons and these should all be considered before you decide to purchase one or the other.

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Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013; Filed Under: Tablets
As expected, network provider AT&T has not enabled Wi-Fi hotspot functionality on the HTC One. There is a mod available that enables it and the best part is that it works with both rooted and non rooted HTC One phones. The only thing required is CWM recovery.
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Posted on Monday, April 29, 2013; Filed Under: Phones
Tags: htc one
Getac Z710 is a rugged tablet that is designed for the professionals who want to operate tablets in extreme environments such as hospitals, construction sites and factories. It runs Android 4.1 jelly bean operating system and is powered by dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor. The Getac Z710 can withstand knocks, falls and liquid spills.

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Posted on Monday, April 29, 2013; Filed Under: Tablets
Acer T232HL is a display with many upscale features. G48MNE7G5V5E It is an Acer product but has pretty exciting design. In fact, it would awarded the prestigious Red Dot Award this year. The T232HL has stylish lines and an edge-to-edge display.

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Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
You must have seen a lot of laptop coolers on ebay and at your local electronics store, but you would have never seen an Orb-shaped laptop cooler. Thermaltake is now offering a cooler that looks like an Orb that has been cut in half. They call it GOrb II Laptop cooler and it can be used with laptops with 10 inch screens (netbooks) and 17 inch screens (mammoth laptops).

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Posted on Friday, April 19, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
Tags: GOrb II Laptop cooler
Did you know that you could use your netbook in your truck? If you are interested, there are two ways to do it. One is DIY (do it yourself) way where you will yourself have to make one. You can follow hackaday’s instructions to see how to get that done. Or you can go to any truck parts or truck accessories website and buy yourself a ready-made one that would not require much effort from your side.

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Posted on Saturday, April 13, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
AMD is now offering a free SimCity game worth $60 with A10-5800K, A10-5700, A8-5600K, and A8-5500 processors. The SimCity, a real-time strategy game is not a cheap game and it is great that AMD is giving it out for free with the aforementioned processors that themselves retain between 80-130 dollars at most.

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Posted on Saturday, April 6, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
Sony released Vaio T15 back in month of February and it is finally here in our hands for review. This slim laptop, T1511M1ES, weighs mere 2.2 kilograms and is not as portable as the Vaio T SVT11113FGS ultrabook and Vaio T13.

The Vaio T1511M1ES specs go like these –
Display: 15.5-inch touch screen, full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels), glossy
Processor: Intel Core i5-3337U (1.8 – 2.7 GHz)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Memory: 4GB DDR3 ( 1600 MHz)
Storage: 24GB of flash memory, 500 GB HDD (5400 rev / min)
Interfaces: USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, card reader (SD, MS), HDMI, VGA, Audio
Connectivity: Wi-Fi b / g / n , Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 4.0 Dimensions / Weight: 380 x 24 to 28,257 mm / 2,200 grams
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Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
Tags: Vaio T1511M1ES specs, Vaio T1511M1ES test
Mouse Computer Japan has released a Windows 8 tablet powered by AMD Z-60 1GHz processor. The price of the LuvPad WN1100 is about 500 Euros, when converted from Japanese Yen. The LuvPad WN1100 is great for those who want to get some real work done on their tablets, like running full blown version of Microsoft Office.

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Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013; Filed Under: Tablets
Samsung recently rolled out Android 4.2.2 for the Galaxy Tab 2 8.0 P3110, P3113 and P3100 users. This guide will help you to root your Tab 2 7.0. Keep in mind that Android 4.2.2 requires an updated busybox and root package, so the root procedure for Android 4.2.1 or 4.1.1 will not work.

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Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013; Filed Under: Galaxy Tab News
Here is a list of how to get the Windows 8 up and running on your OQO model 02 and 2+. Thoughts without installing any drivers after Windows 8 installation on my OQO 2+.

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Posted on Monday, March 25, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
Tags: oqo 02, oqo 2 plus, windows 8
The Rockchip RK2928 is a single core processor that is based on ARM Cortex A9 architecture. The RK2928 is being used in low end tablets and smartphones. In the passmark benchmark test, the Rockchip RK2928 scored 1178 points.

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Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013; Filed Under: Processor Benchmarks
Hannspree released its new Hannspad tablets at the CEBIT 2013 trade show. The new tablets will arrive in June 2013 starting with the 9.7 inch tablet which will be followed by 10.1 inch IPS tablet. Folks at notebookitalia had a chance to play with the tablets and said that these tablets will retail at somewhere around 200-300 Euros.

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Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013; Filed Under: Tablets
AMD has officially released its first batch of Richland mobile APUs (accelerated processing units). These are new processors are replacements for the company’s Trinity processors that made quite a stir in the processor industry last year. The new Richland processors bring some amazing improvements even though the processor is based on Trinity’s GPU and APU architecture.

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Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2013; Filed Under: Processor Benchmarks
Both Mediatek and Qualcomm have no intention or plans for making a 8 core (octa core chip) for the mobile devices as they believe that the operating system and the applications of today are not ready for such powerful processors. The software and the OS are designed specifically for single quad-core processors, so it would bring no benefit to users with devices octa-core, and indeed in some cases it may cancel the benefits such has prolonged battery runtimes and so on. So, the Mediatek has released MT8135 quad core processor which will compete with the Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800 CPUs.

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Posted on Wednesday, March 6, 2013; Filed Under: Phones
Tags: MediaTek MT8135 vs snapdragon 800
Fujitsu has released Lifebook AH562 at the CeBIT 2013 that is being held in Germany. The AH562 is a low end laptop that features a 15.6 inch display with 1366×768 pixel resolution, which is weird since it has a touchscreen and most Windows 8 laptops with touchscreen displays have full HD resolution.

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Posted on Wednesday, March 6, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
You will need access to recovery files on your Acer E1-531 laptop if you want it to restore to factory settings. For this, Acer includes a recovery partition that can be fired up when your computer boots. However, for some reason, if you changed your hard disk or by mistake, deleted the recovery partition, you will not be able to perform the recovery process.

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Posted on Monday, February 18, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
The Acer Iconia W700P is now up on sale in Germany for about 1100 Euros. While that is a pretty high price tag, you get stunning design and impressive specs under the hood. From outside, it looks very much like the Sony Vaio Duo 11 and even has similar specs – 11.6 inch display, full HD 1920×1080 pixel resolution, Core i3/i5 processor and 4GB RAM.

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Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2013; Filed Under: Tablets
Tags: Iconia W700P price, Iconia W700P specs
Acer will be releasing a 15.6 inch laptop called E1-531-H14C in Japan. Acer E1-531-H14C specs include 15.6-inch wide LCD dislay, 4GB memory, Celeron 1000M http://cpudistro.com/intel/intel-celeron-1000m/ processor, Intel HM70 Express chipset, 320GB HDD, DVD Super Multi drive, 1366 × 768 resolution and runs Windows 8 operating system.
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Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2013; Filed Under: Laptops
Tags: E1-531-H14C review, E1-531-H14C specs, E1-571-H54D review, E1-571-H54D specs