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• 17 September 2012

• News: Laptops 2018: How future clamshells will respond to the touch revolution

  The laptop as we know it is in the middle of an identity crisis.

• News: Ultrathin teardown! Asus ultrabook vs MacBook Air

  Are Windows-based Ultrabooks built to the same engineering and manufacturing standards as Apple's now-legendary MacBook Air? We removed the shells from both an ultrathin Asus Zenbook Ultrabook and an Air to find out.

• News: Ballmer quotes Microsoft Surface pricing: $300 to $800

  In the suspense-filled lead-up to the release of its Surface tablets, Microsoft has declined to discuss how much the devices will actually cost--until now, at least. In a Friday interview with The Seattle Times , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted at a pricing ballpark: $300 to "$700 or $800," quelling rumors that the Surface RT would sell at the bargain, Kindle Fire-esque price of $199. Also revealed in the interview: The Surface tablets will indeed be sold inside Microsoft's fall-season pop-up stores in malls around the country.

• News: Samsung 5-in. Galaxy S4 smartphone coming in February, report says

  Samsung will announce a 5-in. Galaxy S4 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February, according to company officials and executives at parts suppliers quoted in The Korea Times.

• 14 September 2012

• News: Ultrabooks disappoint in 2012, MacBook Air is king

  Intel's 2012 ultrabook prediction fails to materialise (except for Apple's MacBook Air) but 20m expected next year.

• 12 September 2012

• News: Apple interested in strong, light carbon fibre for future MacBooks

  Apple has been granted a patent that could be used to introduce strong, lightweight carbon fibre casings to future MacBooks.

• 11 September 2012

• News: Intel outlines our mobile future at IDF keynote

  Intel kicked off its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco Tuesday showing off an Ultrabook with iPhone Siri-like functions, new gesture controls for PCs, and its newest Haswell Core processor aimed at the mobile PC market. Intel Chief Product Officer David (Dadi) Perlmutter lead the keynote and shared his vision for a connected future--powered by Intel, of course.

• News: Intel's Perlmutter eyes thinner laptops for Haswell chips

  The man responsible for Intel's mobile computing platforms says he is pushing the company's engineers to squeeze Intel's next-generation Haswell chip into laptops even thinner than those available today.

• News: Intel hopes to double ultrabook battery life with Haswell chip

  The battery life of ultrabooks will nearly double with Intel's upcoming processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture, which will succeed processors code-named Ivy Bridge, Intel executives said on Tuesday.

• News: Ultrabooks with iPhone Siri-like voice interaction to come in Q4

  Voice interaction will be available in ultrabooks starting in the fourth quarter, an Intel executive said Tuesday.

• News: Smartphones, tablets to recharge quicker with USB 3.0 cables, connectors

  Upcoming smartphones and tablets will charge much more quickly with new micro-USB 3.0 ports, the USB standards-setting organization said on Tuesday.

• 10 September 2012

• News: Western Digital releases samples of its thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks

  Western Digital announced what it said is the industry's thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks, a 5mm-thick model that has 500GB capacity.

• News: RIP Bill Moggridge, Design Father of the Laptop

  Wiliam "Bill" Moggridge is the man responsible for designing the folding screen and clamshell design of the modern laptop.

• 09 September 2012

• News: Ivy Bridge laptops top September electronics bargains

  While electronics bargains associated with Back To School sales disappear after Labor Day, that doesn't mean deal-seekers should write off the rest of the month.

• 05 September 2012

• News: Intel slashes chip's power usage while boosting performance

  Intel said it has improved performance and graphics in the upcoming version of its Core chip line, while also slashing power consumption by a whopping 41%.

• News: NEC sells shares in Lenovo, Japan PC joint venture unaffected

  NEC has sold for about US$230 million shares in Chinese computer maker Lenovo it acquired last year when the companies formed a joint venture to produce PCs in Japan.

• 04 September 2012

• News: New Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition chip cracks 3GHz barrier

  Intel has started shipping 21 new processors for laptops and desktops, including a new Core i7 chip with a base clock speed of 3GHz, a new high for the company's mobile processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.

• 02 September 2012

• News: Hybrid tablets and 4K TVs top trends at IFA in Berlin

  This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first device based on Windows Phone 8.

• 30 August 2012

• News: HP announces Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid device with Windows 8

  Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced an Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid device with the Windows 8 OS, signaling the company's re-entry into the consumer tablet market, which it abandoned after the highly publicized failure of its TouchPad product.

• 27 August 2012

• News: Next-generation Windows expected to make a splash in Berlin

  This week, consumer electronics vendors are once again congregating in Berlin for the IFA trade show, where products based on Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 and RT are expected to set the trend.

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