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AMD showed us a 17W Trinity APU variant at CES last week, and it's pretty clear where that chip is headed: ultrathin notebooks just...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

Thunderbolt is about to get some competition. At CES last week, AMD showed us a little something it's been working on: a competing high-speed interface...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Displays Mobile computing

CES — The folks at Razer were grabbing attention again at this year's CES with an intriguing mock-up, displayed under plexiglass, of a tablet gaming...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

CES — At Nvidia's CES press conference, Asus CEO Jerry Shen joined Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on stage to talk about Tegra 3-based tablets. ...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

CES — One of the product concepts at this year's CES that bucks the trend of emulating Apple via thin laptops and thinner tablets...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Tablets are everywhere at CES this year, to no one's surprise. Asus is showing off its Transformer Prime, which is receiving an early...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

CES — After making our way through a dizzying series of meetings and events on the press-oriented "day zero" of the Consumer Electronics Show...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Mobile computing Personal tech

External notebook graphics solutions aren't foreign to us—we've seen several prototypes over the years, and some have even made it to market. They usually...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing

Just a few short years ago, the Consumer Electronics Show was flooded with netbooks. Tablets and ultrabooks seem poised to steal the ultraportable limelight...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

As the Consumer Electronics Show looms, Acer has unveiled a new entrant to the nascent ultrabook category. Say hello to the Aspire S5, a...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

While new iPads continue to cost $500 and up, the market for cheaper alternatives is exploding. Unfortunately, most of the budget options are tied...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

The Consumer Electronics Show doesn't begin until next week, but Lenovo has already announced a number of systems set to make their debut. ...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Although it's expected to become the second-most-popular tablet after the iPad, the Kindle Fire isn't exactly a poster child for Android tablets—Amazon has gutted...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Looks like AMD has yet another problem to contend with: a lawsuit from the world's biggest contract manufacturer of notebooks. Bloomberg reports that Quanta Computer...

Type: News story Tags: Chipsets Mobile computing

Samsung's premium Series 9 laptop might have all the makings of an ultrabook, with a slim chassis, solid-state storage, and a low-power CPU, but...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

If the BlackBerry PlayBook drops to $299, will anyone buy one? We'll find out soon enough, because RIM has slashed the price of...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Is HP on the verge of unveiling a new ultrabook? Maybe so. By way of an unnamed HP employee, gadget blog The Verge has...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Will Apple's third-generation iPad come sooner than expected? DigiTimes has a double whammy of stories that suggest it could. In fact, according to the Taiwanese...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech