JAPANESE COMPANY LAUNCHES BUDGET-FRIENDLY LESANCE ULTRABOOK

A Japanese company called Unitcom has launched a new thin and light ultrabook in its Lesance notebook lineup. The laptop is quite attractively priced. In Japan it will go on sale this weekend for prices starting at the local equivalent of just $730. At that price point, it is definitely one of the cheapest ultrabooks around. What’s more, it could be even cheaper in other countries because in

UNANNOUNCED SONY VAIO CHROMEBOOK HITS FCC

Sony is yet to officially announce that it is working on a Chrome OS notebook. Nonetheless, a certain Sony laptop bearing the model name Sony VAIO VCC111 has showed up at the FCC website. Although it is not exactly clear which operating system it runs, rumors suggest that it could be Sony’s first Chromebook.


A Chromebook is a laptop that runs Google’s Chrome operating system. The VAIO VCC111

MEET BODHI LINUX: A CUSTOMIZABLE OS FOR NETBOOKS, TABLETS AND DESKTOPS

Bodhi Linux is a light-weight highly customizable Ubuntu based operating system. It also comes pre-loaded with several apps you will find in Ubuntu. However, there is a major difference between Bodhi and original Ubuntu. Bodhi is quite customizable. It allows a user to choose environments suitable for laptops, tablets and desktop computers.


Bodhi Linux 1.4 was released this week. The update

NVIDIA LAUNCHES 28NM GRAPHICS PROCESSOR FOR ULTRABOOKS

NVIDIA has launched a new 28nm graphics processor for ultrabooks. The first ultrabook to sport this graphics card will probably be the Acer M3.

The NVIDIA GeForce GT640M graphics processor is based on NVIDIA’s 28nm Kepler architecture. NVIDIA says that PC makers like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba are expected to launch ultrabooks and notebooks with the Kepler

ACER ICONIA TAB A510 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER IN THE US

The Acer Iconia Tab A510 is now available for pre-order in the US and Canada. The tablet is powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. It runs Google Android 4.0 operating system. Acer unveiled the tablet at CES in January.

The Iconia Tab A510 starts at $449.99. That model has 32GB of storage. The model that will be available in the US and Canada is actually the Olympic Edition. It doesn’

MODMYPI BUILD CASES FOR THE RASPBERRY PI COMPUTER

The Raspberry Pi has got everything that a typical computer has, except for a case. The $35 computer has a processor, memory, USB and Ethernet ports. Unfortunately, it hasn’t got a protective case. It is basically only a system-on-a-board.


Now a certain company called ModMyPi has started taking pre-orders for a case for the Pi computer. The ModMyPi sells for around 8 pounds in the UK. It is

7 INCH TOSHIBA TABLET WITH FREESCALE PROCESSOR SPOTTED IN ITALY

It looks like Toshiba has quite a few tablets on offer. The company has been showing off several tablets recently and these include the Toshiba Excite X10, a 7 inch Thrive tablet and a 7.7 inch prototype. And now the folks at Notebook Italia have come across yet another 7 inch tablet. This model has a Freescale processor.


The Toshiba LT170 has a 7 inch display with 1024 x 600 pixels. It is