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Hot on the heels of its Taiwanese rival Acer, Asus has pulled the curtain off its first ultrabook—or rather, ultrabooks. The Asus launch actually covers...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Unreal Engine 3 has definitely shown up in some unexpected places—most notably Apple's iOS devices, in the form of Infinity Blade (and the upcoming Infinity...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming Internet Software

It's here at last. Heralded by a promo page on Asus' website yesterday, the newfangled tablet-with-a-keyboard thingamajig has started sneaking onto Amazon, Newegg, and...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

IDF — Mooly Eden laid out the basic parameters for the new wave of laptops that Intel has been pushing during his IDF keynote...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Systems Mobile computing

IDF — Gigabyte and Intel aren't the only ones showing off X79 motherboards at IDF. MSI has three LGA2011 boards on display, including a...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets

IDF — Sandy Bridge E is out in full force at the Intel Developer Forum, and we've already seen a handful of X79 motherboards that...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets

As the Intel Developer Forum chugs along in San Francisco, Microsoft is hosting the Build developer conference in Anaheim, a few hundred miles south. The...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows

We like HP's Pavilion dm1z quite a bit. It won our Editor's Choice award and was recommended it in our latest system guide....

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

That $199, MeeGo-powered Eee PC we saw at Computex is drawing closer to release. At least, one would think so, considering Asus has

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

If you'd asked me five years ago whether we'd one day see a ThinkPad slate running a Google operating system, I probably would have shaken...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Makers of notebook PCs aren't often adventurous—unless aping the latest Apple design counts—but Gateway has gone a little out there with its new ID47 notebook....

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Eat your heart out, Apple. Sony has announced an ultra-thin business laptop that, in a number of ways, puts the MacBook Air to shame....

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Computex — PC enclosures come in a multitude of of sizes these days, and Silverstone seems to have them all covered. The most striking...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Power

Computex — While touring Thermaltake's booth on the Computex show floor, we stumbled upon one of the largest CPU coolers I've ever seen. Behold...

Type: News story Tags: Power Cooling

Computex — Intel's X58 chipset is in dire need of an upgrade, and we caught a glimpse of what that will look like while visiting...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets

Computex — At a press conference this afternoon in Taipei, Taiwan, Asus lifted the lid on several new notebooks, including an incredibly sexy UX Series...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

In case you missed the news, Dell finally pulled the curtain off its long-awaited XPS 15z, the plus-size successor to the Adamo family. You can...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

We've been hearing a lot of noise about inexpensive, ARM-powered slates lately, but there are other uses for touch screens. Acer has aptly demonstrated that...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing