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Last week we launched a new sort of buyer’s guide for AnandTech with our Best Budget Ultrabook recommendation. We’ll be fleshing out the “best XYZ” recommendations for other components and categories over the coming months, but for now my focus is on the notebook sector, and the plan is to have a new recommendation for laptops every Friday. Last week was a budget Ultrabook, and this week is the true budget category for all laptops. Let me know what you’d like me to cover next, keeping in mind that there are probably five or six categories of laptop that I’ll rotate through on a regular basis. With that out of the way, let’s talk briefly about the budget laptop sector. Laptops comprise everything from Chromebooks...
Samsung Promises Ice Cream Sandwich By 1Q12 For SGSII & Galaxy Note
In a post on Samsung Tomorrow, Samsung Electronics announced that they would begin rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to the Galaxy S II variants and Galaxy Note by the...
20 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/20/2011
Sony Ericsson Releases Ice Cream Sandwich Alpha Build For Select Xperia Models
It's not even beta, but this is one of the first official releases of an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM from a manufacturer to arrive. Sony Ericsson, which famously took...
3 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/15/2011
The New Intel Mobile Division
Intel's haphazard ultra mobile strategy is finally getting some much needed consolidation. We got the first hints of this at IDF where Intel announced a restructuring that would combine...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2011
In Search of the Elusive 35W Ivy Bridge Quad-Core
Prior to this year's IDF, Intel told its partners that Ivy Bridge would be available in a quad-core mobile variant with a 35W TDP. This was particularly exciting news...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/13/2011
Acer TravelMate 8481T-6873: Remarkable Road Warrior
With all of the noise Intel and some of the OEMs are making about ultrabooks, it's easy to forget that as PC users we've already enjoyed thin-and-light and ultraportable...
52 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/11/2011
Ivy Bridge Mobile Lineup Overview
It sure didn't take long. Last week, Intel's roadmaps about desktop Ivy Bridge processors were leaked and we posted our Ivy Bridge Desktop Lineup Overview on Saturday. The initial...
39 by Kristian Vättö on 12/7/2011
Introducing AMD’s Radeon 7000M and NVIDIA’s GeForce 600M Mobile GPUs
AMD briefed us last week on several new and upcoming technologies and announcements. We’ve covered the AMD Memory announcement, and next up on the list is AMD’s Radeon Mobility...
65 by Jarred Walton on 12/7/2011
Holiday 2011 Laptop Buyer’s Guide
We say it every year, but the trends continue so we’ll keep repeating it: laptops and mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular, often at the cost of desktop sales...
87 by Jarred Walton on 12/2/2011
Samsung Exynos 5250 Announced: Cortex-A15, 2GHz, Dual-core
All our favorite mobile System-on-Chip manufacturers have been hard at work on their Cortex-A15 designs, and Samsung is no different. Today, in Korea, Samsung announced their first Cortex-A15 SoC...
25 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/30/2011
Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290: Glasses-Free 3D?
Way back in the dark ages of CES 2011, we were able to lay hands on and play with some interesting new technology from Toshiba. They had a prototype...
16 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/23/2011
Affordable Chromebooks for the Holidays
We received two press releases this morning relating to Chromebooks, one from Acer and one from Samsung. Starting with Acer, they have announced a $50 price drop on their...
16 by Jarred Walton on 11/21/2011
Understanding Wireless Storage: Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate GoFlex Satellite
Let me pose a hypothetical situation: say you bought an iPhone or iPad, but cheaped out and got a 16GB model. You’ve got around 10GB worth of music, a...
31 by Vivek Gowri on 11/21/2011
Motorola Mobility Shareholders Vote to Approve Google Merger
Motorola Mobility shareholders have overwhelmingly approved of a potential merger with Google, the next step in the deal that was first announced in August. Ninety-nine percent of all voting...
3 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/18/2011
Cotton Candy: Funny Name, Dual-core Android on a USB Stick
Occasionally a product presents itself that seems to be so logical you're left stunned that no one thought of this before. So it is with the Cotton Candy, the...
17 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/17/2011
Work Begins on CyanogenMod 9, ETA in January
Following the release of Ice Cream Sandwich's source code, Cyanogen announced via Twitter that work had begun on CyanogenMod 9, the Ice Cream Sandwich-based version of the popular community-developed...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/16/2011
Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown
Thanks iFixit for the image! As we work on our Kindle Fire review, iFixit dissected Amazon's first entry into the tablet space. The internals aren't surprising - there's an OMAP...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 11/16/2011
Toshiba Portege Z835: A New Ultrabook Appears
Intel's ultrabook initiative is a curious one, one that's very gradually picking up interest among vendors. We've already had a chance to take a look at the smaller of...
65 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/16/2011
HP's Winter Refresh, With Business-Class Ultrabook
We recently went out to San Francisco to take a look at HP's winter product refresh and meet with their representatives, and there were a couple of interesting new...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/16/2011
Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Line to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update
In a blog post today, Sony Ericsson divulged that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich would be coming to the entire Xperia lineup. This follows the recent news that ICS...
8 by Amman Sood on 11/15/2011
BlackBerry London Image Leaked: The First QNX Phone
First reported by The Verge and subsequently confirmed by Boy Genius Report, the first image of BlackBerry's first BBX phone has leaked, and it is a significant departure from...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/15/2011