Mushkin has announced that it has completed the first mSATA SSD with a storage capacity of 480 GB.
   The SSD is part of Atlas series of solid state drives and will be commercially available in January, next year at a price of $500, which is a little more than a dollar per GB.
   Mushkin has offered until recently, for portables, SSDs with up to 240GB, and the 480GB SSD launch is an important step in the evolution of the storage solutions in this range.
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   With the launch of Windows 8, Gigabyte has introduced its new line of portable computers with Microsoft's new operating system. The offer includes a convertible tablet, ultrabooks and two powerful gaming laptops.
   Gigabyte S1082 is a tablet PC with an 10.1-inch screen that can be equipped with a storage space of up to 500GB. Gigabyte has prepared various accessories for it including a multimedia keyboard dock.

   Gigabyte U2142 is a convertible ultrabook with 11.6-inch multitouch screen, Intel Core 3rd gen.

   Gigabyte U2442 is the bigger and more powerful version with an 14-inch display, that has an 1600X900 resolution and the latest Intel Core processors along with NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M or GT 650M.

   Gigabyte P2542G is a 15.6-inch gaming laptop with Blu-ray, full HD display, Intel Core i7 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M GPU.

   Gigabyte P2742G offers a full HD 17-inch screen, a quad-core Intel Core i7 and GTX 660M, graphics card with 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. The gaming laptop includes RAID 0 and can include a storage space of up to 2TB.

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   Asus is about to expand the range of Zenbook ultrabooks equipped with 14 and 15-inch models.
   Present on the market for about a year, the Asus Zenbook ultrabooks are noticed by their finishing quality, flexibility and light weight.
    Asus Zenbook UX525VS has an14-inch screen, weighs 1.9 kg and boasts a case of only 6 mm thickness. Despite the limited space, the new Zenbook includes an  CD/DVD optical drive and a NVIDIA GeForce GT645M with 1GB video memory. Depending on budget, Asus Zenbook UX42VS comes equipped with Intel Core i7, i5 or i3, 6GB RAM and hybrid hard drive with a capacity up to 1 TB.
   Asus Zenbook UX525VS has an 15-inch screen, comes with Intel Core i7 or i5 processor, up to 10 GB of RAM, hybrid hard drive with a capacity of up to 1TB and Nvidia GeForce same video card  GT645M with 1GB of video memory.
  Asus Zenbook U500VZ  is out of the ultrabook class, but remains an unusually slim and lightweight laptop with 6 mm thickness and weighing 2 Kg. Equipped with an 15-inch Full HD screen and a quad-core Intel Core i7 with standard voltage, U500VZ offers the performance of a conventional laptop, but without sacrificing the ultrakook style. Along with the 8 GB RAM, Zenbook U500VZ includes a NVIDIA GeForce GT650M with 2GB memory and performance that leaves room for some less demanding 3D games.
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   The new Windows 8 tablets will have an important advantage compared to iPad. This detail could be enough to threaten the supremacy of the iPad.
   The electronics manufacturers who will launch Windows 8 tablets, followed the example of Microsoft Surface tablets. Most of them will have detachable removable included in the price or available as separate accessories.
   The only major manufacturer that has decided not to offer yet a Windows 8 tablet with keyboard is Dell.
   After the iPad has caused declines in the sales of laptops, a tablet that serves also as an ultrabook could cause losses for Apple.

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   Although it looks great, the ultrabook form Samsung's Series 5 Ultra Touch is considered an affordable model that will run Windows 8. The name gives us to understand that the screen is touch sensitive. With a diagonal of 13.3 "and a resolution of 1366x768 pixels, it comes with protective glass and can recognize 10 simultaneous touches.
   The cheapest configuration costs $810 and includes an Intel Core i3, 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD. for $ For extra $50 you can purchase the version Intel Core i5 version.The ultrabook has a 24 GB  ExpressCache  memory integrated SSD on the motherboard, which will increase the speed of the operating system loading and some constantly used applications.
   Samsung's Series 5 Ultra Touch  Ultrabook weighs 1.73 kg and comes with a metal case. The manufacturer has not announced the capacity or the autonomy offered by the  battery. Those who are interested in this laptop should consider the fact that the screen is glossy, not as you see in the picture below. If you want to work with the ultrabook outdoors or in a brightly illuminated environment, it this would be a problem. Samsung Series 5 Ultra Touch will be available in late October after Windows 8 will be officially announced.

    Aspire M5, ready to launch with Windows 8 on October 26, is an 14-inch ultrabook framed by a very narrow frame and equipped with a multitouch screen.
    At a price of 799.99 U.S. dollars we will  receive a configuration  with a dual-core Intel Core i5 at 1.7 GHz, 6 GB RAM and a pair consisting of a 20 GB SSD and a 500GB hard drive. Laterally, we find a DVD Burner, a less common equipment on systems from ultrabook category. The 14 inch touch has an 1366x768 pixels resolution and support multitouch gestures and can interpret up to 10 fingers. For more control in applications we have a wide touchpad compatible with Windows 8 and a chiclet type backlit keyboard. With these features, the Aspire M5 (M5-481PT) manages to sneak in a case of 2 cm thickness, weighing about 2 kg.
   Those who will consider that they will not need a touch screen can choose an ultraportable laptop, Aspire V5 (V5-471P), at a price of 749.99 dollars and specifications nearly identical with the M5 version , without touch interface and hybrid storage device. Alternatively, we may choose the Aspire V5 (V5-571P) model with an 15.6 inch screen, which also don't have a touch interface, offering instead a larger screen for the same price of 799.99 dollars.
   Aspire M5 is housed in a case made of aluminum, while the Aspire V5 series models use a thicker plastic casing.
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   HP launches two new Pavilion series ultrabook with Windows 8: Sleekbook 14 (14 inches) and Sleekbook 15 (15.6 inches) at lower prices than most of the ultrabooks with Windows 8.
  The new HP Pavilion Sleekbook 14 has an AMD APU and includes many technologies HP: CoolSense, for temperature control, ProtectSmart to protect data in case of a shock and Connected Photo and Music for storage in the cloud, but HP does not yet provide more details

During this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany, Chinese company Lenovo has decided to announce its new thin and light series of notebooks called the S series. The new product line is powered by Intel’s processors and AMD’s mobile GPUs while there are also models using AMD’s APUs only.
The first and most expensive member of the new S series from Lenovo is the S300.
This is a thin and light notebook powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge based Core i5 processor and a discrete AMD video card.
The diagonal size of the screen measures 13” and body color is white while the keyboard is black.
The second on the list is the S400 that also comes equipped with Intel’s Ivy Bridge based Core i5 processor and a discrete AMD video card. The mobile system can feature a 500 GB HDD and also has a 32 GB SSD to boost the overall responsiveness and degrease boot time.
Lenovo’s S405 is surprisingly positioned as a top solution featuring an AMD A8 APU with four x86 processing cores, a 1TB HDD and the same 32 GB SSD that the S400 has.
The S400 and S405 are 14” notebooks and there are more different color schemes such as white, black, red, silver and apparently pink.
All the systems in the new Lenovo S series are not positioned as UltraBooks, but are clearly quite thin and quite light.
They all weigh a maximum of 1.8 Kg and that's just under 4 pounds while being just 21.9 millimeters thick (0.87 inches).
The starting price is $500 (400 EUR) and it will vary slightly depending on the configuration.
The way Lenovo likes to put it, the S series have a long battery life just like netbooks, but come with the processing power of a notebook, lacking the price premium of an UltraBook.
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  Toshiba brought to Berlin a convertible notebook and a TV with an impressive 4K diagonal of 2.13 m.The new Windows 8 convertible is called Toshiba Satellite U925t.



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Today, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo is previewing at the company’s Accelerate Channel Partner Conference in Las Vegas the lightest 14” UltraBook in the industry. It’s called the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and it’s made out of a premium carbon fiber chassis. The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 UltraBook is packed with premium features such as 3G connectivity and Lenovo’s own RapidCharge technology that guarantees a near-full battery charge in 30 minutes, along with Intel’s vPro technology packet that allows every security agency to monitor your computer.
The processing power is delivered by Intel’s latest generation of Ivy Bridge processors and it will have up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM to play with.
Graphics are displayed on a 16:9 small matte screen with a 1600:900 resolution.
We would have liked it to have a normal 4:3 display, but how can we expect the big brands to think about the users and not the profit?
For those who need a reminder, the 16:9 screen format actually offers less screen space than a 16:10 display with the same official diagonal size.
Compared with standard 4:3 screens, the 16:9 displays offer much less screen area. The weight is a little bit under three pounds, that would mean that the lightest ultrabook weighs less than 1.36 Kg.
Despite the small weight and size, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon touts a 10-hour battery life that will be 80% recharged in just 30 minutes with Lenovo’s RapidCharge technology.
The front facing webcam can offer 720p video quality and the speakers are Dolby Home Theater v4 certified.
The camera also comes with face tracking software that will make you more visible to anybody watching you through it. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon price is not yet public, but the small wonder with its backlit keyboard and all will be on sale before the end of this summer.






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Touch screen, thin and light design, competitive performance and enviable autonomy these are just some of the attributes reserved by the Ultrabook systems based on Ivy Bridge, the new platform with 22 nm processors from Intel.
The one with the reference design presented at CeBit, show us that Intel can bring experience and versatility of a tablet in one portable all-in-one notebook, able to unite in one package most valuable qualities of these products.
The superb device presented by Intel is equipped with a capacitive multi-touch screen of 13.3 inch with an 1600x900 pixel resolution.
The configuration is based on an 1.5 GHz Intel from the new Ivy Bridge. In the absence of more information coming from official sources, it appears that the model provides two USB 3.0 ports, microSD card slot and HDMI output.
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Gigabyte U2442 is an Ultrabook with 14 inch screen, equipped with Intel Ivy Bridge ULV family.
The creation of Gigabyte has some rare qualities in the range of utltrabook systems, putting Intel integrated graphics together with a dedicated video card that has performance closer to the requirements of a PC gaming enthusiast. It is Nvidia GeForce GT 640M model, equipped with 2 GB dedicated video memory.
With such a configuration, we can overlook the fact that Gigabyte U2442 ultrabook is not the thinnest on the market, but with a weight of 1.49 kg is certainly one of the most comfortable 14 inch portable that we had the opportunity to meet. The silver finish case is made ​​of plastic, measures between 18.5 and 20.5 mm thickness and hides an inseparably Li-polymer of 44 WHr.
The chiclet keyboard is illuminated , and for more comfort we have available a large trackpad, equipped with normal buttons.
Gigabyte offers the new model in version of U2442V with Intel Core i5 ULV and i7 ULV or a version U2442N equipped with non-ULV core i5 and i7.The Gigabyte U2442N's main advantage is the level of performance offered, similar to a regular notebook with Intel, but offered in a weight package under 1.5 kg.
The ventilation system is sized for the requirements of either of the two versions of processors, the heat generated is evacuated to the rear of the case, using two slots positioned below the screen.
The 14 inch diagonal screen has 16:9 aspect ratio and supports 1600x900 pixel resolution.
Although the standard configuration model comes only with a mechanical hard drive, Gigabyte has promised to provide a version equipped with SSD. On the connectivity we can mention two USB 3.0 and two more USB 2.0, HDMI 1.4 output and VGA, LAN connector, headphone output and SDHC card slot. List of facilities also includes a webcam, WiFi N adapter and a Bluetooth 4.0 module.



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Dell has joined this week to electronic manufacturers that launched ultrabooks probably the most popular segment in the CES 2012 event.
Aware that the struggle for supremacy with Asus, Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba will not be an easy at all, Americans have tried to come up with some unusual things ,with XPS 13 model, even if the technical configurations have no major surprises.
As the name suggests, Dell XPS 13 is a ultrabook with a 13.3 " display embedded in a housing which used on a regular 12" , providing protection with the Gorilla Glass and a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, thad has already become standard for this segment.
The main news in the section are construction and design.So if other manufacturers opt for aluminum or plastic, Dell has opted for no more than three materials: cover is made of aluminum, the palmrest is made ​​of a magnesium alloy, while the Americans have opted for a carbon fiber rear.Even if it seems unnecessary on the back, carbon fiber helps to better cooling and lower total weight (the weights that ultrabook has 1.35 kg).
Another advantage is the backlit keyboard, which certainly will find fans among those who write a lot at night, especially since this is one of the few shortcomings of the Lenovo's U300S considered one of the top sites ultrabook.
Hardware platform is provided by dual-core processors offered by Intel SandyBridge. The basic version is equipped with Intel Core i5 2467M, Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics card , 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD, while the top version you get an Intel i7 2637M, Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics card , 4 GB of RAM and 256 GB SSD.
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For Intel, 2012 will mark the introduction of its 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture and among all the CPU models to be included in this series two particularly interesting chips are the Core i7-3667U and i5-3427U.
These are of course destined to be used in Ultrabooks and as such have a TDP of just 17W making them highly efficient in terms of power consumption.
But outside of their low TDP, the two U-Series Ivy Bridge chips also have some other tricks up their sleeves such as an Intel HD 4000 built-in GPU, two computing cores with Hyper-Threading support as well as Turbo Boost support.
Furthermore, as VR-Zone reports even their operating clocks are set at an impressive 2.0 and 1.8 GHz with Turbo Boost raising these frequencies up to 3.2GHz and respectively 2.8GHz.
The only downside is that we’ll have to wait until May of 2012 or so to get our hands on an Ultrabook sporting one of these two mobile powerhouses
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Intel hasn't, so far, managed to promote Thunderbolt much, but it might have just what it needs to get it all over the world as soon as the next batch of ultrabooks is ready, or so it thinks.

VR-Zone just reported that Intel intends to make sure that all ultrabooks starting 2012 onwards will support docking stations powered by the Thunderbolt connectivity standard.
This could be a hint that the Santa Clara Giant is meaning to turn Ultrabooks, or some of them at least, into business devices.

That would make some sense, seeing as how its overtures on the consumer front ended up stale.

Not that there is anything surprising in that. After all, Ultrabooks are unimpressive, with only thinness and low weight as advantages.

Their performance is underwhelming and they also cannot boast of having a better battery life (or even as good) as regular mobile PCs.

What Intel wants is for Ultrabooko makers to cram two things into the device's side: a large dock connector and a mini DsplayPort.

Manufacturers will get to choose what ports the dock will have, but Intel made some suggestions of its own, including HDMI via DP++, D-Sub via USB, eSATA via a PCI Express-based SATA controller, etc.

The chip giant also expects for a possibility of daisy chaining Thunderbolt devices onto the dock.

There are some limitations developers will have to wrestle with, unfortunately, and there doesn't seem to be room in Intel's plan for USB 3.0 docks either, despite SuperSpeed being much more affordable and popular, albeit slightly limited in a few areas.

That said, this latest project is questionable at best. It was already made clear that high prices are the primary reasons why Ultrabooks are selling poorly, so adding Thunderbolt docks on top of everything is rather counterintuitive (even Toshiba's new devices are a bit pricey).
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