Acer updates Aspire range of notebooks, including new V7 Ultrabook
Posted on 07 May 2013 By efjay Acer has updated its range of Aspire V series notebooks with new V5 models that come in various configurations and also introduced its new V7 series Ultrabook range. The V7 series Ultrabooks, described as thin and stylish and sporting a “silky touch” finish on the bottom will come in screens sizes of 14″ and 15.6″, with screen resolution options of 1366×768 and full HD 1920×1080. Other options are expected to include a choice of 3rd generation Intel CPU’s, SSD’s, and WiDi. Acer’s new Converter Port will also be included. Specific details are not provided by Acer but with its lower numbered brethren sporting Dolby Home Theatre and NVIDIA’s GeForce GT7XXM series or AMD’s Radeon HD8750 its possible these options could be available on the V7 range. The new Aspire V7 series Ultrabooks are expected to go on sale at the end of May with prices starting at $ 599. Source [...]
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Samsung ATIV Book 5 Overview. Why?
I tested the Samsung Series 5 Ultra Touch with SSD recently. It was a fantastic bit of kit but lacked a few features. The 1366×768 screen was a bit 2012 and there was no keyboard backlighting. When I saw that the Samsung ATIV Book 5 was launching I was hopeful that we’d be seeing the necessary upgrades. Alas, it appears that the Book 5 is nothing more than a re-positioning exercise. The ATIV brand is going to be used by Samsung in the USA but it introduces some confusion during the change-over period. The old Series 5, 7 and 9 still exist. The question is, what is Samsung’s low-cost Ultrabook range in the USA or are they clearing out in preparation for Haswell, touch-only Ultrabooks from June. Are they going to do anything with the Y-series processors? The new Samsung ATIV Book doesn’t currently offer much in addition to something [...]
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HP Updates ProBook Business Lineup Design and Processors with Intel Haswell
HP is giving their ProBook budget friendly business lineup of notebooks a makeover this summer by making them slimmer and lighter just in time for the beach season (36% thinner and 18% lighter than the previous year to be precise). But that’s not all, they’ll also be more muscular with newer and faster Intel and AMD processors under the hood, allowing them to kick sand in the face of competition. Beach analogies aside, the new ProBook does look pretty attractive and the lineup includes the following systems: ProBook 430 – 13.3” screen, Intel Processor ProBook 440 – 13.3” screen, Intel Processor ProBook 445 – 13.3” screen, AMD Processor ProBook 450 – 15.6” screen, Intel Processor ProBook 455 – 15.6” screen, AMD Processor ProBook 470 – 17” screen, Intel Processor In case you didn’t deduce yourself, you can see that any model ending in “0” is an Intel based system, while [...]
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HP Updates ProBook Business Lineup Design and Processors with Intel Haswell
HP is giving their ProBook budget friendly business lineup of notebooks a makeover this summer by making them slimmer and lighter just in time for the beach season (36% thinner and 18% lighter than the previous year to be precise). But that’s not all, they’ll also be more muscular with newer and faster Intel and AMD processors under the hood, allowing them to kick sand in the face of competition. Beach analogies aside, the new ProBook does look pretty attractive and the lineup includes the following systems: ProBook 430 – 13.3” screen, Intel Processor ProBook 440 – 13.3” screen, Intel Processor ProBook 445 – 13.3” screen, AMD Processor ProBook 450 – 15.6” screen, Intel Processor ProBook 455 – 15.6” screen, AMD Processor ProBook 470 – 17” screen, Intel Processor In case you didn’t deduce yourself, you can see that any model ending in “0” is an Intel based system, while [...]
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Acer Aspire P3 Specification Update: First with Y-Series?
The Acer Aspire P3 Ultrabook, that’s actually a tablet with a keyboard accessory, is available for pre-order. We picked up on some of the specs of this low-cost tablet but here’s the full specification run-down. It looks like it will be the first Ultrabook to use the new Y-Series down-clocked lower-TDP processors. Before we go into the specs of the Aspire P3, let’s highlight that Intel Core Y-Series range again. It’s not a new processor at all. It’s based on Ivy Bridge and is clock-limited in order to offer designers an easy (and probably lower-cost) option for tight thermal designs. In terms of CPU performance we’re coming in at a level lower than the first ever Core i5 and Core 7 Ultrabooks so please be aware of this. We look forward to testing it. The Acer Aspire P3 is, at it’s current pricing, expensive for what you get but we [...]
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New HP Laptop Coupon for May, $75 Off Purchase
HP has a new coupon for $ 75 off the purchase of any customized laptop configured $ 799 or more when you use coupon code NB4819 at checkout at the HP Home & Home Office Store. This coupon works on all Pavilion and ENVY laptops but does not work on the HP Spectre line nor on the HP ENVY X2 convertible tablet notebook. That said, it still works just fine on the most popular laptops from HP such as the ENVY dv6t Quad Edition and ENVY dv7t Quad Edition, although since this is not a percent off coupon the best deal really comes with getting the lower end versions of those notebooks with the Core i7 and no graphics. For instance, the base configuration of the ENVY dv6t Quad starts at $ 624.99 after applying the coupon NB4819, which is a pretty darn good deal for the following specs: Processor: [...]
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Acer Aspire R7
First spotted in a teaser online video with a “Star Trek” movie tie-in, Acer’s flagship Aspire R7 has been revealed. It’s a combination of laptop and all-in-one desktop, with a 15.6-inch screen mounted on a floating hinge that Acer calls an Ezel. The pitch for the Ezel is that it makes it so you can move and reposition the screen as needed, but it won’t move too much under your fingers while you’re swiping and tapping. In hands-on use, I found the hinge to be stiff, and moving it required one hand on the display and one on the base of the laptop. But it did provide decent resistance under my fingers. While Acer is presenting this as new, it reminds me very much of the 20-inch HP HDX laptop, a short-lived system with a floating hinge from 2007. Unlike the HDX, the screen on the R7 is a touch [...]
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The Aspire R7 is Acer’s Star Trek Into Darkness Laptop
If you recall, Acer a couple of weeks ago teased a new laptop using footage from the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness movie. This week at a press event in New York they gave the big reveal of what the laptop actually is and how it looks in person. The new system is called the Aspire R7 and, as predicted, it is a pseudo All-in-One style 15.6” touch-screen machine that has a unique desktop monitor like display with 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution. Acer is calling the hinge design an “Ezel Hinge”, it allows you to tilt, flip, bring the screen closer to you and lay the screen down (almost) flat in a tablet type mode, you can see the diagrams below to see these various display configurations possible: Notice the curved hinge used to allow for this design, the implementation works well except it doesn’t allow the screen [...]
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Acer Aspire P3
We’re probably going to see a lot of even smaller Windows 8 tablets as Intel Haswell chips enable more battery-friendly designs. But the Acer Aspire P3, announced at Acer’s global press conference in New York, isn’t one of those products yet. It’s got a current-gen set of features like tablets we’ve already seen, in a very familiar design. An “ultrabook convertible” according to Acer, the Aspire P3 looks like, and is, a Windows 8 tablet with a keyboard cover. The two parts integrate in a way that resembles a lot of iPad-plus-keyboard-cover solutions. It’s really an 11-inch tablet with a keyboard case. The case snaps on the same way that many keyboard cases already do in the Android/iPad landscape, with no physical connectors: it’s all Bluetooth-mediated. An optional stylus can sit in a little loop on the case, which has a very fabric/plastic feel. There’s no touch pad below the [...]
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Sony VAIO T 15” Ultrabook with Full HD Touch Screen for $692 at Sony.com
Sony is ramping up their deals for students now through the Sony Education store, that includes a deal on the VAIO T 15” Ultrabook with 15” Full HD touch screen display for $ 692. You don’t have to be a student to get the deal, just be an alumni, parent or related to a student – it’s pretty open. Just follow this link to the Sony Store to reach the education portal, and then after that you’ll get 10% off any laptop that’s added to your cart as part of the academic purchase savings. The particular Sony VAIO T model that’s on sale with the Full HD screen is model number SVT151190X, you can just search on that at store.sony.com to find the specific model that starts at $ 693. The VAIO T 15” on sale comes with an Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB HD and as [...]
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