Though confronted with a severe financial crisis for a couple of years now, Dell remains one of the PC industry’s leading brand names, surpassed only by HP and Lenovo in terms of shipments and market share. The company’s laptop line-up has always impressed with diversity and choice, so it shouldn’t come as a major shocker more »

Summer is almost upon us (is already here for some of us), and the one thing with summer and electronics is the tendency for them to overheat. The biggest culprits may likely be laptops – especially those on actual laps. But even when on a flat surface, we can always tell a laptop’s panting when more »

Toshiba’s Satellite C-Series notebooks won’t exactly qualify for speed or elegance awards, though the biggest ace up their sleeves is a more than fair quality-price ratio. And, courtesy of a new promo, they’re now cheaper than ever before, starting at a mere 280 bucks. The C850D-ST3N01 laptop is the one going for $279.99 after a more »

Who said netbooks are dead? Well, pretty much everybody that has been involved in the business for the past half a decade or so. But it appears mini-laptops are still alive and kicking. Asus, one of the market’s road-openers and leaders, seems to want to bring back netbooks from the dead. The first step is more »

Say, when’s the last time you saw a blazing fast ultrabook go for a dime below 1,000 bucks? Can’t remember, eh? Well, Microsoft’s online store has a big surprise for all you ultrabook lovers out there, selling Acer’s beautiful Aspire S7 for a starting price of $899. That’s a whopping 300 bucks off the 11-incher’s more »

We’ve seen a caboodle of premium ultrabooks, all-in-one PCs, tablet/laptop hybrids and other quirky combos get unveiled lately, but what if you can’t really afford to cough up one or two thousand bucks for a computing machine? No problem, because Dell has a little ace up its sleeve for you too. This one is called more »

Move over, MacBook Pro! You too, Chromebook Pixel, as Windows finally has a contender for the high-end ultraportable crown. And what a contender! The Toshiba KIRAbook is to go up for pre-orders on May 3 and start selling on May 12 for a starting price point of $1,599. We’re yet to see this bad boy more »

In a day and age when the PC market is suffering hugely due to lack of originality and innovation, we have to single out the handful of manufacturers that are always taking risks and pushing their creativity limits further and further. Even if some of their “concepts” might feel a little too wacky to ever more »

It’s no longer a secret that most major PC manufacturers are struggling to make ends meet, but for the regular tech consumer that can only be a good thing. Why? Well, because everyone is trying to impress now, innovate and be better than before. Take Toshiba, for instance. The Japanese have always been famous for more »

Having reached the venerable age of one and a half, Acer’s Aspire S3 is no longer what you’d call a hot ultrabook. And yet its specs are not exactly dated, including such goodies as old-school Sandy Bridge processors, Intel HD Graphics 3000 and 4 gigs of RAM. Furthermore, there appears to be a brand new more »