The recently leaked HP Envy 4 and Envy 6 Ultrabooks are now official. In addition, the PC maker has announced lower-end configurations of the 4 and 6 series and named them “Sleekbooks” since they don’t meet Intel’s Ultrabook standards. The 14″ Envy 4t and 15.6″ Envy 6t are configurable models sold via the HP Store. [...]

Samsung NP700Z7C-S01US with Intel Ivy Bridge CPU Another laptop with an Intel “Ivy Bridge” processor is now on sale in the US. It’s the Series 7 Samsung NP700Z7C, listed at Amazon. The 17.3-incher appears to have the same industrial design as the current Series 7 Chronos laptops, but it packs inside the Core i7-3615QM quad-core [...]

The AMD E1-1200, which is going to replace the AMD E-300 series Accelerated Processing Unit, has been spotted in a new Acer Aspire E1 laptop PC. We’ve tried to find differences between the E1-1200 and E-300, but there are only a few of them and the updates are minor. Both dual-core processors belong to the [...]

The first Sony ultrabooks, released last week in the form of the 11.6″ VAIO T11 and 13.3″ VAIO T13, will be available with the 3rd Generation Intel Core processors after all. The official announcment of the VAIO T series included 2nd Gen Core CPUs only, but Tech Focus spotted last weekend a T11 sample with [...]

The MSI GT60 gaming laptop is now available in the US. As opposed to its 17.3″ GT70 sibling which comes in various configurations, the 15.6″ MSI GT60 is currenlty offered only in the form of the 0NC-004US model with the Intel Ivy Bridge quad-core i7-3610QM processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 3GB GDDR5 video card empovering [...]

The recently launched Samsung Series 9 premium-class ultra-thin laptops are going to be available with the Intel Ivy Bridge processors, officially called 3rd Generation Intel Core. The 13.3-inch NP900X3C and 15-inch NP900X4C are replacements for the 2nd Gen Core-based NP900X3B and NP900X4B respectively and the processor upgrade appears to be the only notable change on [...]

The Asus UX31A 13.3″ ultrabook with a full HD IPS display and the 3rd Generation Intel Core ULV “Ivy Bridge” processor has been put on pre-order in Europe, in Czech Republic more precisely. The first known model from the new Asus ultrabook line, dubbed Zenbook Prime, is the UX31A-R4003X which is selling for 31,000 CZK [...]

The Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition, the company’s first Inspiron model with the 3rd Generation Intel Core processor, is now available in Singapore, meaning that we will probably see it soon around the globe as well. Advertised as a “high-performance multimedia powerhouse”, the Inspiron 15R SE packs the i7-3612QM quad-core CPU and the AMD Radeon [...]

Months after its competitors, Sony today entered the ultrabook laptop market with the brand new VAIO T-series, including the 11.6″ T11 and 13.3″ T13. Inside the cases combining magnesium and aluminum, Sony’s first ultrabooks incorporate the 2nd Generation Intel Core “Sandy Bridge” power-efficient ultra-low-voltage processors, but there is no word on availability of the forthcoming [...]

The Asus N56 15.6″ entertainment-oriented notebook, which is now available for pre-order, delivers not only the Intel “Ivy Bridge” processors and Nvidia GeForce 600M graphics, but also 1080p display resolution and aluminum chassis. The manufacturer part Asus N56VZ-DS71, currently offered via Adorama, sports the “Ivy” 3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3610QM 2.3GHz quad CPU, the Nvidia [...]