Evaluate the attractiveness ultrabook form 2012

Folio 13 HP, Toshiba Portege Z835-P330, Asus Zenbook UX31E ... is the 13-inch model attractive ultrabook launched early 2012.

Acer, Asus, Toshiba, and Lenovo have already entered the race ultrabook from late 2011 with the promising models. Meanwhile, a few other big names such as HP and Dell will not be slow, to compete with the MacBook Air 13-inch model of Apple.
Despite promises from generation computer running the Windows platform 8 and use Ivy Bridge CPU equipped with Intel's next generation will be available soon on the market in the future, names like HP or Dell Folio 13 XPS 13 ... are very worthwhile for your choice at this point.

HP Folio 13

HP Folio 13 is good assessment of performance, price and forms.

• Pros: HP Folio 13 carrying the full the qualities required for a sample ultrabook: very good battery life, great keyboard, equipped with all the ports needed to use the move, good form and have the competitive price (899 USD).
• Cons: Compared to other forms ultrabook, Folio 13 seems a bit heavy due to the thickness and weight are a bit bigger.

Configuration: Intel Core i5-2467M 1.6 GHz; 128 GB SSD, 4 GB RAM Screen: 13.3-inch OS: Windows 7 Professional (64-bit).

Dell XPS 13

• Pros: Dell XPS 13 equipped with screen size 13-inch mirror to look smaller than expected. Sophisticated design, eye-catching. Reasonable price (999 USD).
• Cons: The selection of connection ports limitations, no HDMI and no SD card reader; less battery life than some other thin laptops.

Configuration: Intel Core i5-2467M; 128 GB SSD, 4 GB, DDR3 1,333 MHz; operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit). Screen: 13.3-inch.

Toshiba Portege Z835-P330

• Advantages: attractive price (799 USD), thin and light design.
• Cons: Processor is limited because only equipped with Core i3 CPU, keyboard a bit rigid.

Configuration: Intel Core i3-2367M 1.4 GHz 4 GB of memory, 1333 MHz DDR3; 128 GB SSD; operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s

• Pros: U300s forms are rated among the computer running Windows, equipped with large SSD drive, USB 3.0 ...
• Cons: Price too high ($ 1,595), but lacks some ports equipped with basic connectivity.

Configuration: Intel Core i7-2677M 1.8 GHz, 4 GB, DDR3 1,333 MHz; 256 GB SSD; operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).

Acer Aspire S3

• Pros: lightweight design, S3's design looks a bit like MacBook Air. Best price (899 USD).
• Cons: limited connectivity, not long battery life.

Configuration: Intel Core i5 2467M 1.6 GHz speed; 4 GB of memory, DDR3 1,333 MHz, 20 GB SSD / 320 GB 5,400 rpm; operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).

Asus Zenbook UX31E

• Pros: Asus Zenbook UX31E beautifully designed, elegant, equipped with excellent sound speakers, the screen is high resolution. Reasonable price ($ 1,099)
• Cons: The keyboard and touch-drag limited areas, not long battery life.

Configuration: Intel Core i5-2557M 1.7 GHz 4 GB of memory, 1333 MHz DDR3; 128 GB SSD, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).

7 reasons ultrabook can create revolutionary technology

The changes in the consumer electronics show 2012 (CES 2012) recently in Las Vegas (USA) led many to believe that the ultra-thin notebooks, ultra-light (ultrabook) will make a revolution technology this year.

The landing of the line ultrabook actually takes place in the annual banquet at the American technology.

Since late last year, many technology experts predicts 2012 will be a time of ultrabook, and to create a new wave of laptop market are dominating the tablet, technology firms will rush into this area.
And the landing of the line ultrabook actually takes place in the annual banquet in the U.S. technology. What technology firms bring to CES 2012 is very likely that consumers will make the early running after a fundamentalist tablet.
Here are 7 reasons, according to PC World magazine, enough to make us believe that the technological revolution created by ultrabook happens.

1. Thinner, lighter

As arguments in its natural, super laptops launched recently are thinner and lighter than the traditional product line. Intel has launched ultrabook standard, as up to 0.8 inch thick, weighs less than 1.4 kg.

Even with some ultrabook high life, the concept of thin, light will be more standardized, so that the people carrying them inside becomes much easier.

2. Battery endurance

A standard by Intel for ultrabook that they have reached their battery usage at least 5 hours, or preferably from 8 hours or more. For those who use or have to move, battery life is one of the important selection criteria. With a ultrabook can run eight hours, users can work all day without having to carry a charger or spare battery with you.

Ivy Bridge line of Intel chips due out later this year, will help ensure that your energy is more stable operation. Ivy Bridge chip is said to save energy, operate more efficiently, allowing ultrabook longer battery life over 8 hours.

3. Lai between tablet and laptop

Although the notebook has become conventional superiority over Vietnam, but the tablet still have a place and on a more dominating. Therefore, the task will become ultrabook device in the middle, a hybrid product between tablet and laptop, with the optimum experience.

Computer maker Acer had announced a hybrid tablet that way. When you add in the keyboard, it looks like a ultrabook, but only its own screen, it has become a tablet. At CES 2012, Lenovo also launched a similar product called IdeaPad Yoga.

4. Touchscreen

Those who follow neo purely personal computer may be opposed to the opinion that the touch screen is replacing mouse and keyboard, but it is a fact, a new trend.

Metro interface of Windows 8 is designed to support touch. The line ultrabook future Windows 8 will be equipped with touch screen, allowing users to experience the fun when processing tasks by tapping, dragging, dropping, directly on the screen, while can use traditional screen with keyboard, mouse or trackpad.

5. Voice recognition

If the current technological revolution is a touch screen, the future will be the voice recognition capabilities. The commands for the computer perform tasks by voice appeared a long time, but not until after Apple iPhone 4S posted late last year, this new technology actually becomes mainstream.

Numerous devices at CES 2012 was introduced that can be controlled by voice. Intel recently revealed the company is working with another company to offer voice recognition features such as "Siri on the iPhone 4S" in ultrabook products.

6. Confidentiality

Intel is also trying to further develop security systems for computers. Group leading chip has left a large sum of money to buy security company McAfee, in the hope of bringing security features into future products.

The Intel has provided anti-theft technology (AT) and ensure recognition technology (Intel IPT) for its hardware ultrabook. In particular, AT technology enables users to disable data access on personal computers lost its anywhere, Intel-IPT also helps protect the identity information and personal information to use.

7. Communication near (NFC)

At CES 2012, a number of technology companies launched ultrabook support NFC technology (standard short-range wireless communication, is used on a smartphone like Samsung Galaxy Nexus), such as the Spectre of the HP Envy 14.

With this technology, the HP is not only ultrabook of liquidity support as the Nexus of the Galaxy smartphone manufacturers Samsung, but also may share information with other devices also support NFC.

General comments

It can be said is ultrabook has gathered all the technological features that users need to search on a traditional laptop, the ingenious combination of the advantages of Vietnam on Netbooks and PCs the table.
With a structure so powerful, there is no reason to not believe, ultrabook will create a revolution in mobile computing technology on a global scale. From the present perspective, we can see, the future of this product line is very bright.

5 product line impress in CES 2012

Consumer Electronic Expo 2012 CES will be held on Tuesday next week in Las Vegas. This is an opportunity for manufacturers to introduce products of their latest technology. So what is the focus of this year's CES?

In contrast to the exhibition times before, if 3D TV and electronic reading device is the hot topic of the CES 2010 Android tablet almost occupies the attention of the world of technology at CES 2011. Although this year's event has not occurred, but was much speculation about the key products that the manufacturer offers. Here are five product lines can be "exploded" at CES 2012.

OLED screen

OLED technology promises to deliver more vibrant colors, response time is shorter and can be applied to devices smaller than the LCD or LED.

However, at the present time this technology is still relatively modest proportion of the sample HDTV. This can be changed at CES this year with the LG OLED TV to reveal the biggest ever.
Product size 55 inch, a thickness of only 4 mm, weight 7.5 kg and the response time less than 0.0001 milliseconds (ms), this number for the LCD TV is from 2-5 ms .

Ultrabook

Intel has brought the concept of "ultrabook" with compact size, SSD and battery time from October 5 / 2011. So far, there have been few products of this line appears as Lenovo IdeaPad U300s, Acer Aspire and Toshiba Portege Z835 S3.

However, opponents of the Macbook Air will actually "remove" in this year's CES with products expected to range from 20 to 50. Also at the show, Intel CEO Paul Otellini's speech will be important for Ivy Bridge Core processors for ultrabook to replace the current line of Sandy Bridge.

Phone quad

For enthusiasts, the phone CES 2012 is a strong chance the series could voyeuristic devices.

Quad-core processor for mobile phones have emerged, such as Qualcomm Snapdragon and Nvidia Tegra 3 S4. It is not clear how many phones will be launched quad core on this occasion, but the world of technology is expected to have a breakthrough on the processing power of the phone next week.

4K display

1080p is considered the standard "yellow" on the HDTV market and is considered "Full HD", but this seems to be quickly outdated with a screen resolution of 1080p will be 4 times CES is at this time.

LG plans to introduce a 84 inch screen, capable of Internet connection, displaying 3D and 4K resolution. Toshiba also plans to launch the screen resolution like this. And most likely on Tuesday here, the phrase "Full HD" will be the producer "definition" again.

Ice Cream Sandwich

Tablet is also a major theme of CES 2010, when manufacturers want to "preemptive" iPad. CES 2012 and is expected to witness the appearance of the tablet running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, operating system platform the latest version of Google.

If at the show last year, Motorola Xoom is the only device to use Honeycomb, this year this figure will be more promising thanks to Google's source release soon Ice Cream Sandwich.
Manufacturer Coby Electronics of America expected to hit the 4 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet at CES 2012. Also, do not exclude the possibility that other companies will also bring the tablet of their Ice Cream Sandwich.

Lenovo began receiving orders Ultrabook IdeaPad U300s

After waiting a long time Lenovo has finally started allowing users to set before the first Ultrabook IdeaPad U300s company.

The Ultrabook of Lenovo has a thickness of only 14.9 mm and weighs 1.32 kg. Machine configuration property includes powerful processors with Core i7-2677M 1.8 GHz clock and can increase by up to 2.9 GHz Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Technology.
IdeaPad U300s equipped with 13.3 inch screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixel, 4 GB DDR3 memory, 1.3 megapixel webcam, spill resistant keyboard Breathable Keyboard, with optional 256 GB SSD for boot time of the machine only from 8 to 10 seconds.
Not so IdeaPad U300s is equipped with cooling system Advanced Cooling Technology Intel and Lenovo Long Life Battery technology for the battery life of up to 6 hours rapid charge time, charging only 30 minutes to reach 50% battery capacity .
Also Ultrabook IdeaPad U300s supports a full range of connectivity including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and HDMI output.
The price of the product in the market is expected to 29,490,000 VND.

LG XNote Z330 ultrabook revealed nearly identical MacBook Air

LG is showing the company's own efforts in the segment by the introduced ultrabook XNote Z330, a lightweight laptop running on Intel Core i5 and Core i7 with designs reminiscent of the MacBook Air Apple.

XNote Z330 is designed with 13.3 inch screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixel, 8 mm thin screen edges because of its technology Shuriken, light weight of only 1.21 kg and 14.7 mm thick.
LG's new Ultrabook processors using Intel Core i7 or Core i5-2467M-2637M, accompanied RAM 4 GB, optional SSD or 120 GB SSD SATA 6 Gbps SATA 3 Gbps 256 GB, video card Intel HD graphics and Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 3.0 with HS, Intel WiDi, USB 3.0, microSD card reader and pin to 6 hours duration.
LG XNote Z330 is designed to optimize the boot and shutdown pretty fast (takes only 9.9 seconds) and a resume time (recovery) quickly (in just 7 seconds). LG calculate the combined speed of the 2nd generation Intel chip and SSD will give XNote Z330 multitasking performance than 20% over previous models ultrabook.
LG XNote Z330 is priced between $ 1,509 to $ 1,863 depending on configuration and will be released in Korea in the middle of this month. Likely to appear in other markets of the ultrabook this has not yet been disclosed.

Apple launched the MacBook Air in the quarter 1 / 2012

A new report from DigiTimes citing unnamed sources from partners providing parts to Apple announced that "Apple" will be released MacBook Air product line completely new quarter 1 / 2012.
Notably, the list of new products MacBook Air with the arrival of version 15 inch MacBook Air first appeared.

According to the report, MacBook Air product line ready to go into production with the version of 11.6 inch, 13.3 inch and 15 inch. DigiTimes also said Apple will lower prices of products MacBook Air laptop is now the new version before the official launch in the near future.
The release of the new version on your MacBook Air 1 / 2012 is completely coincide with the launch of 30 to 50 new ultrabook at CES 2012, the product is said to compete directly with Apple's MacBook Air .

New Apple Patent: MacBook tablet hybrid

MacBook will be able to rotate the screen into tablet, the more antennas offer the possibility of the phone.

No need to mark the genius of Steve Jobs can also see more and thinner laptops and tablets are becoming widespread, and the convergence of the two product lines is inevitable. Very trendy, Apple has prepared for this trend.
This week, Apple has been Patent Office issued U.S. patent for a MacBook with mobile antenna and swivel screen. So, the MacBook can be ultra-thin MacBook Air, and supports mobile connectivity with the touch screen like the iPad.
Patents can also become a weapon to battle Apple general offensive against the manufacturer of the PC with Ultrabook troops are landed ready market worldwide. "This is a formal statement to the Windows-Intel alliance, that Apple is now able to confront or defeat Ultrabook design in 2013 when the Intel processor Haswell was born," said Jack Purcher on Patently Apple site.
In May, Intel announced the Ultrabook, given the new laptops, ultra thin and light, to compete directly with Apple's MacBook Air. Ultrabook first wave, based on Intel processors now, began to be marketed. New product line has achieved the criteria for under $ 1,000 and ultra slim design (less than 2 cm) - or in the case of HP's new Folio was published, even if only 1.8 cm thin.
Next year, this platform is expected to further improve with the advent of the microprocessor of Intel Ivy Bridge. Tuesday Ultrabook wave was expected to arrive in 2013, with the advent of the microprocessor Haswell, in which power consumption is only half compared to the current notebook. Some of them will also be installed with Windows 8 Metro interface on the touch screen.

Details of the patent

According Purcher, new Apple patent is for a hinge structure, composition can allow your MacBook as a laptop swivel. He explained that the structure is very similar to the design of generation Ultrabook Monday or Tuesday, allowing the machine into tablets when only the simple needs such as reading, surfing the web and / or scribbled with a smart pen.
For antenna patents, Purcher said that Apple applied for patents in this field for nearly two years. Which shows that the industrial design team of Apple, led by Jony Ive, are trying to create the perfect MacBook with the possibility of a phone.

Quote new biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs, Purcher argued that companies are in a situation similar to deciding to introduce iPhone. At that time, Jobs said the iPhone will "guillotine beauty" of iPod sales.
"This is also true for Ultrabook in the future will be equipped with a microprocessor Haswell, and more importantly, support a swivel screen that allows a notebook into a tablet for more leisurely reading ... "he wrote. "Similarly, Apple must provide a product replacement notebook with tablet PCs or risk their iPad sales were" eating receding "more quickly. With a product 2-in-one, Apple has justify the sales of iPad is reduced if the new MacBook-Tablet benefit directly. "