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We’ve known that Kinect for Windows is coming for a while now, but The Daily got its hands on the first computers that have the technology built directly into them:
At first, I thought it was a Sony 16-inch F-Series notebook with a steampunk chassis for US$1250, which, all things considered, is a good price. Then I realised it’s just the cover. That doesn’t stop it from looking great.
Although we weren’t flooded by ultrabooks at CES to quite the extent we expected, the word itself was unavoidable. The skinny-sized laptops abounded, each alluring in its own way! That’s when we realised that there’s no such thing as an ultrabook. And we shouldn’t pretend that there is. Updated with Intel’s response.
By now you’re maybe sick of hearing about ultrabooks, the best chance Windows rigs have to catch up to Apple laptops in design, usability, build quality, and general good-and-wantable-product-ness. Don’t be. This isn’t the inevitable, dreary sameness that’s made PCs so boring for the last decade. In fact, it’s the opposite.
It’s the product that will never be. Like that sixth season of The Wire, we hope that it happens, but we know deep in our hearts that it won’t. Intel’s Nikiski ultrabookand its see-through-trackpad-display falls into that category.
Engineers at Dell must be on aFast and Furious kick too! They’ve clearly decided to live life a quarter-mile at a time, and swaddled their XPS 13 with carbon fibre.
Origin’s been one of the craziest overclocking outfits around for a while now, but its laptops haven’t been really, let’s say, aesthetically pleasing. Its latest rigs got the Ricky Lake makeover treatment, though, but not at the cost of raw arse-kicking power: they still clock in at a ridiculous 4.5GHz.
Dell’s XPS 13 is their official entry into the ultrabook market. On the outside, it doesn’t look terribly different from other ultrabooks (hello teardrop design!), but a closer examination reveals that Dell took a very interesting approach to the materials they used in their machine. Namely, carbon fibre.
