The good: With a slim, MacBook-Air-like design at a reasonable price, the Acer Aspire S3 is an example of how the Ultrabook laptop category can work if done right. The bad: The construction is a step below superpremium, connectivity is limited, and battery life is on the low side of acceptable. The bottom...

Most of Sony’s VAIO laptops are nothing to write home about. Though they are fine laptops, they don’t distinguish themselves from many other modern laptops. They are, for lack of a better descriptor, typical. But every so often, the company bucks common trends with a product that is clearly...

HP bills its Pavilion dm1z laptop as an ultraportable, but our reviewer thinks it makes a much better netbook. (Read “HP Pavilion dm1z: AMD’s Fusion Processor Offers a Lot of Bang for the Buck” for details.) HP has the AMD E-350 version of the dm1z on sale for $400, but you can enter coupon...

A Taipei-based technology news site has been publishing a steady stream of flak centered on Intel’s Ultrabook laptop strategy. Intel counters, however, that this is little more than rumor and speculation.Over the last week or so, DigiTimes has been offering up almost a daily dose of...

Dell touts the Latitude 2120 as the ideal netbook for business. That engenders the question: Is an old-school, underperforming, underscreened netbook really an ideal product for business computing? The question becomes even more puzzling when you see the prices that Dell is asking for the 2120 in its...