If you like staying up to date with the latest gadgets and news coming from the technology domain, you will probably appreciate the Samsung Chromebook Series 5 which is an appealing and affordable mini laptop that has been designed mostly to keep its user connected to the Internet. If you prefer using web-based applications like [...]

2009 was the year when the netbook market exploded as lots of laptop manufacturers decided to enter this niche of mini laptops. While most of them came with a 10-inch display, there were several models that featured a bigger 11.6-inch display, like this Acer Aspire One 751h-1545. The definition of a netbook has changed since [...]

Launched last year, the Acer Aspire One 722-BZ608 is an affordable 11-inch ultraportable which comes with a full-size keyboard, a significant amount of memory and hard drive space in comparison to a regular 10-inch netbook. You can consider this as a premium netbook since the HDD is large enough to hold lots of music and [...]

In the second part of last year, HP launched the Folio 13 ultrabook which is heavier and thicker than the Apple MacBook Air as well as other ultrabooks that came out in 2011. Even so it still manages to be thinner than any regular laptop and comes at a lower price tag in comparison to [...]

In today’s article we are going to do a small review of the Acer Aspire S3 that came out in the second part of last year. It is a 13-inch mini laptop or ultrabook, however you’d like to call it, that adopts a lightweight and slim design while carrying some pretty powerful hardware specifications. We [...]

Designed in order to compete with the extremely popular Apple MacBook Air (11-inch version), the Samsung Series 9 NP900X1A comes with a brushed metal surface and has the same curved sides and a rounded hinge like its bigger 13-inch sibling. Aside from the Macbook Air, this Series 9 has to face up some other serious [...]

In the opinion of many people, the best sub-premium netbook launched last year is the Lenovo IdeaPad S205. This is a very good example of an ultraportable that comes at a decent price tag and has some pretty interesting hardware specifications, similar to those that the HP Pavilion dm1z has, another top performer in this [...]

MSI is probably not the brand you think about when it comes down to netbooks but this doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t have their own interesting models. One of these is the Wind U160-007US that came out a couple of years ago, a netbook that at the time of its launch was one of [...]

This isn’t a full-size laptop so we can describe it as a mini laptop, or better said, an ultrabook as the manufacturers prefer to market non full-sized laptops that come with powerful hardware specifications. First, let’s talk about the design of the Lenovo IdeaPad U400 and mention that its chassis is manufactured from a sheet [...]

The popularity of ultrabooks has grown tremendously in the last few months and Toshiba decided to launch one such model, in the form of the Portege Z830-S8302. With a price list of $1,429, this model has a sturdy magnesium alloy frame which makes the ultraportable relatively rigid. It measures 1.6 x 12.4 x 8.9 inches [...]