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Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG Ultrabook
An optical drive. A 15.6-inch screen. A discrete graphics processor instead of integrated graphics. This is an Ultrabook?
Actually, this is a landmark: The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG meets Intel’s 21mm (0.83-inch) thickness limit for 14-inch and larger Ultrabooks, but packs features found in few thin and light Laptops—most notably, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M graphics chip that marks the debut of Nvidia’s new Kepler GPU architecture.
Nvidia volunteered the info that the GT 640M has 384 processing or CUDA cores running at 625MHz, and Acer says details on ship date and pricing for the M3-581TG are still a few weeks away, so our official review and rating must wait until then. But after spending a day with the 4.4-pound slimline, we’re impressed. Read more »
Asus Zenbook UX31A and UX21A coming soon
Asus is working on a major Ultrabook refresh to coincide with availability of Intel’s new Ivy Bridge CPU and we’ve managed to get our hands on the full spec sheets. The Zenbook UX31A and UX21A are direct replacements for the UX31 and UX21, respectively, though don’t be fooled by their similar product names, these are serious upgrades we’re talking about.
Matte screen options will be available on both new models, with the highest spec offering 1920 x 1080 resolution on an IPS display — that’s for both the 13.3-inch UX31A and 11.6-inch UX21A. You’ll get 350 nits of brightness if you opt for the upgraded IPS display or 300 if you go with a more conventional LCD, in which case resolutions drop to 1600 x 900 on the UX31A and 1366 x 768 on the UX21A. Read more »
Ultrabooks:Samsung Series 9 vs Dell XPS 13
The freshest crop of Windows 7 “Ultrabooks” includes the Dell XPS 13 and the latest version of the Samsung Series 9. Ultrabooks are slim, light, quick-to-start-up-and-resume, and not especially cheap, machines. Ultrabooks — whose designs mimic MacBook Air designs — target people more concerned with Notebook size than older forms of media.
The buying public demands more from computer makers at the same time that they demand less. Think Notebooks. Folks typically want machines outfitted with the largest screens imaginable. Yet heaven help the designers if that results in computers that are too big, heavy and bulky. (Last I checked, designers were still constrained by the laws of physics.) Read more »
