Lenovo has trotted out a new ultraportable laptop with a small screen that rotates. The screen is designed to rotate allowing it to be rotated back to be propped up like a video screen for watching video and more. The machine is called the Lenovo Flex 10 and features a 10.1-inch screen. The small laptop […]
Performance-minded PC users frequently want both a fast solid-state drive for crucial apps and a regular hard disk for everything else, but that’s not always feasible in the tight space of a laptop. Western Digital is making that two-drive option a practical reality through its new Black2. The design puts both a 120GB SSD and a 1TB spinning disk into a single 2.5-inch SATA enclosure, offering more speed and capacity than you’d find in a typical hybrid drive. It’s potentially an ideal blend for gamers and small form factor PC builders, although they’ll pay for the privilege — WD is shipping the Black2 today for $300, or roughly as much as the two drives by themselves.
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Aging Busta Rhymes witticisms aside, this new Lenovo might just be a contender for anyone on the lookout for a versatile Windows 8.1 machine. The Flex 10 is a 10-inch version of the Flex 14 and 15 models we’ve already seen, with the same 1,366 x 768 resolution and 10-point touch panel, but with a Bay Trail Pentium or Celeron processor instead of Haswell. It’s a sort of half-way house between a fanless hybrid and a full-wattage laptop, and in some ways it offers the worst of both worlds — for example, the base model provides a battery life of just four hours but has a relatively stocky weight of 2.6 pounds (1.2kg). On the other hand, the Flex 10 should run Microsoft Office and other productivity software at a faster clip than mobile-class machines like the Miix 10 or Miix2. Plus, it allows the screen to be flipped back 300 degrees into a “stand” mode, likely without costing as much as a Core i3-powered Yoga 11S — assuming the unconfirmed starting price of $550 proves to be accurate. Lenovo has a habit of adding products to its website before releasing full pricing and availability, so we’ll update this post when we learn more. (Woo Hah!)
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We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Joel, who has one eye on our archives and another on his wallet. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“It’s been a while since you had a Best Laptop under $500 question. I’d be curious to know what all of the Engadget readers would suggest?”
It certainly has, Joel, so let’s throw this open to the bounty of real-world testers that we have in the Engadget community. If you’ve spent $500 on a laptop that you love, share the details in the comments section below.
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The popularity of tablets have posed a solid threat to the PC industry, and in response many 2-in-1 so-called “hybrid” laptops have popped up in increasing numbers that are able to function as both — as a laptop when some serious work needs to be done, and as a tablet for activities best suited to […]
Acer gave its Chromebook line a welcome tune-up when it launched the Haswell-based C720, but the $250 starting price was no doubt disappointing to those who wanted the C7’s $200 entry point. The company is accommodating those spendthrifts today with its $200 C720-2848 variant. The only sacrifice is a lower 2GB of RAM; owners still get a 1.4GHz Celeron processor, a 16GB solid-state drive and that vaunted 8.5 hours of battery life. Should you want to save a cool $50, or are just frustrated that you can’t buy a Chromebook 11, you can pick up the new C720 today from Amazon or Best Buy.
HP’s Chromebook 11 has mysteriously disappeared from sale, with the ARM-powered Chrome OS laptop reportedly being pulled from Best Buy shelves after store managers received urgent instructions to freeze sales. The $279 notebook is listed as out of stock on Google’s own Play store and at Best Buy, and has vanished completely from HP’s webstore; […]
Today Acer has reported that they’re not doing especially well in the PC business, reporting losses and a restructuring plan which includes the resignation of J.T. Wang as CEO. Acer corporate President Jim Wong will take over as CEO, while Wang will remain as chairman until June of 2014. Plans for restructure include a cut […]
Dell introduced the Latitude 6430u business ultrabook back in the early summer of 2012, and soon after complaints regarding a peculiar odor began surfacing on the company’s product forums. According to many owners, the laptop is off-gassing an odor that smells, for lack of more sophisticated phrase, “like cat pee.” Though the company responded with […]
When it comes to notebooks, there is this particular tension that computer manufacturers will have to work with – that is, to cram in a whole lot of power, or to make it as light as possible? It is a careful balancing act between the two, and Dell might have hit a winning formula with its latest Dell Precision M3800, which has been touted to be the thinnest as well as lightest 15” mobile workstation in the world. Said to merge both beautiful design in an ultra-thin form factor alongside delivering workstation-class performance, the Dell Precision M3800 is truly an uncompromising system for digital content creators as well as engineers who are on the lookout for portability, power and stylish design in order to match their image and environment.
Just how thin is the Dell Precision M3800? For starters, it will measure less than 0.75” thin (that would be the equivalent of 18mm), and will tip the scales at 4.15 pounds. Not only that, since it packs quite a punch, it obviously would need a cooling system that will match its performance, which is why there is dual-cooling. As for its battery, it is said to deliver up to 10 hours of battery life with NVIDIA Optimus technology for extended productivity, allowing users of the M3800 to edit video at a shoot, presenting CAD ideas to customers in style or rendering 3D animation and modeling on the road.
As for the operating system of choice, you can pick between Windows 8.1 Pro (64-Bit) or Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit), where it has also been loaded with up to 16GB of RAM, powered by a 4th-generation Intel Core i7-4702HQ 8 threaded quad-core processor with up to 3.2 GHz clock speeds. Graphics-wise, you get an NVIDIA Quadro K1100M GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 dedicated memory, and where storage is concerned, you would be spoiled for choice. The Dell Precision M3800 comes with the ability to hold up to two storage devices, with a maximum of 1.5TB of storage (HDD, SSHD, or SSD).
If you are interested in picking the Dell Precision M3800 up, it will be available worldwide this coming November 14 with a starting price of $1,799.
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