smartbook

Getta Load Of ‘Em Ports!

To get the bad news over with first: this is just a concept. Put down your Visa card. Freescale’s been exploring the various shapes and uses tablets could take over the years, with this smartbook concept being ideal for DJs.

January 16, 2010
Computing

Sapper And Skylight: Designing Lenovo’s Smartbook

David Hill is the VP of Lenovo brand management and design and was also instrumental in the design of the original ThinkPad. Here, he shares the creative process in designing Lenovo’s Skylight, a smartbook which wowed us at CES.

January 5, 2010
Computing

Lenovo’s Skylight Is The First ARM-Based Snapdragon Smartbook

The Skylight is Lenovo’s entrant into the nascent smartbook category, and with Qualcomm providing its ballyhooed 1GHz Snapdragon chipset, it may well be an important evolutionary step in mobile computing.

January 4, 2010
Computing

Freescale’s $US199 Smartbook Design Means Tablets For Everyone

Freescale, supplier of the chip that powers the Kindle as well as about 70 per cent of the ebook market, has just developed a 7-inch tablet reference design that will basically be the genesis of many tablets starting 2010. And it’s $US199.

December 5, 2009
Computing

Netbooks: What You Need To Know About The Next 6 Months

A bunch of great netbook upgrades are on the way—next-gen Intel processors in January; smooth HD video playback—but to spare you the brain hemorrhage of keeping track, we’ve laid it all out. Here’s what you need to know.

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