My focus on laptop recommendations today is on the rather nebulous “thin and light” category. That can mean different things to different people, but with Ultrabooks encroaching on this market I’m going to keep it simple and automatically disqualify any and all Ultrabooks from consideration for this category—they have their own recommendations already, so I see no need to overlap coverage if I can avoid it. Since I started with Ultrabooks, however, and I only picked one laptop, that means you’ll have to wait a bit longer before I return to that category and look as some other similar options. In the meantime, feel free to debate the “best” choices for the thin and light category in the comments, and if I need to...
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 7
We're back with another podcast. This time we start out with a discussion of Borderlands 2 and philosophies on sidequests in games. We briefly talk about TI defocusing its...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/1/2012The iPhone 5 Display: Thoroughly Analyzed
When Apple rolled out the iPhone 5, they announced that it had a full sRGB gamut, which the new iPad almost achieves and would be a substantial improvement over...
99 by Chris Heinonen on 9/27/2012The iPhone 5 Performance Preview
This morning we finally got our hands on Apple's iPhone 5. While we are eager to get started on battery life testing, that'll happen late tonight after a full...
238 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/21/2012Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, < 100mm^2
Our good friends at UBM TechInsights sent over the first diffusion images of Apple's new A6 SoC. It's still too early to tell a lot but we have confirmation...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/21/2012The iOS 6 Review: Maps Thoroughly Investigated and More
By this point, we’re all familiar with Apple’s revised release cadence for iOS and iOS devices. Introduce a new iOS release at WWDC, beta test it through to the...
103 by Brian Klug & Saumitra Bhagwat on 9/19/2012iPhone 5/A6 SunSpider Performance: Faster than Intel's Atom Z2460
The first iPhone 5 reviews have lifted, confirming the leaked Geekbench data we saw in our earlier post. Apple's A6 appears to feature two custom ARM cores running at...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/19/2012The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 5
Despite crazy travel schedules and Brian being in South Korea, we managed to carve out nearly 2 hours across time zones to discuss the iPhone 5. Brian goes over...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2012Analyzing the iPhone 5 Geekbench Results
While working on our Haswell piece, I've been religiously checking the Geekbench and GLBenchmark results browsers to see if anyone ran either benchmark and decided to tap upload. This...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2012iPhone 5 Memory Size and Speed Revealed: 1GB LPDDR2-1066
Quick analysis of the A6 SoC photos from the iPhone 5 launch event tells us all we need to know about the memory interface, speed and bandwidth of the...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/15/2012The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
When Apple announced the iPhone 5, Phil Schiller officially announced what had leaked several days earlier: the phone is powered by Apple's new A6 SoC. As always, Apple didn't...
162 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2012New iPod Touch Leads Revamped iPod Lineup
It’s been a pretty action-packed day for Apple. While the star of today’s event was undoubtedly the new iPhone 5, the Cupertino giant also gave the iPod lineup an...
22 by Vivek Gowri on 9/12/2012iOS 6 Coming September 19th
Apple spent quite a bit of time talking up the new features of iOS 6 during their presentation today, though not much was new since WWDC. The software is...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2012iPhone 5 Hands On Pics and Video - Updated: With Impressions
We just spent a good amount of time with the iPhone 5. The phone feels very thin and light (obviously), and the improvement in performance is very noticeable compared...
91 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/12/2012Apple iPhone 5: Announced
Apple announced its 6th generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, at a special event in San Francisco this morning. The iPhone 5 brings a huge list of improvements. Apple unexpectedly...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Apple Introduces New 8-pin Dock Connector, Dubs It Lightning
There was little doubt by the start of the event that Apple would be replacing their nearly decade old 30-pin connector. Apple always leaves room for suprises though. The...
33 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2012Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC
This one caught us off guard, but Apple just announced the A6 SoC powering the new iPhone 5 features 2x faster CPU and GPU performance compared to the iPhone...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Our Apple iPhone 5 Live Blog
With IDF day 1 under our belts and the live blogging engine tested in our keynote and Haswell architecture coverage, it's time to set our sights on the next...
69 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/12/2012Audience earSmart Not in Upcoming iPhone, Suggests New SoC?
Since the iPhone 4, Apple has been including Audience earSmart voice processors in devices to improve both receive and transmit audio for handsets. The iPhone 4 started the trend...
11 by Brian Klug on 9/7/2012Western Digital My Book VelociRaptor Duo Review
With Thunderbolt ports available on both Macs and PCs, as well as Thunderbolt controller costs dropping thanks to the introduction of Intel's Cactus Ridge, the Thunderbolt storage space is...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/30/2012The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 2
We're back! After a false start last week, we have our second podcast. This week Brian Klug, Ryan Smith and myself discussed Thunderbolt, Quick Sync in OS X, Windows...
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