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Comment on UMPCPortal – Acer Iconia W3 official, shows up on Acer Finland with full specs by JohnCz

JohnCz — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:38:36 +0000

Interesting camera placement. I guess Acer sees increased portrait usage with sub 10″ pc tablets. I’d really like to see Acer step up their game and offer a active digitizer. Or at least have one pc tablet/convertible sku that has a active digitizer option.

Comment on Lenovo Helix available to order on Lenovo’s website by Genghis Khent

Genghis Khent — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:50 +0000

Re mobile broadband, my source (CDW) says August .. for now anyway. I passed, since Haswell is right around the corner.

Comment on Lenovo Helix available to order on Lenovo’s website by champ

champ — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:47:39 +0000

If it were 15″, if it had upgradeable ram (at least up to 16 gb), if it had 512 gb of storage… A different machine.
This is a tablet too large to be a tablet and a laptop too little to be a laptop. My bet is that we won’t hear much about it unless they half the price.

Comment on UMPCPortal – Acer Iconia W3 official, shows up on Acer Finland with full specs by James

James — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:57:49 +0000

@KJ – Got to be careful about comparisons to the iPad because it doesn’t have to run a desktop OS.

The iOS is optimized for mobile usage and very little else and unlike even Android, it prioritizes graphics and is why it seems to work so smoothly when even Android can seem laggy at times.

It also helps the iPad has more powerful graphical performance thanks to using a quad PowerVR GPU… the latest version being a SGX554MP4.

While Clover Trail uses a single PowerVR SGX545… So the Clover Trail has to depend on just having better CPU performance than most Cortex A9 SoCs, with newer Cortex A15′s rivaling and starting to exceed it.

The Temash Chippy reviewed in the Acer Aspire V5 is an example of AMD’s offerings. So we already have something to compare…

Showing it’ll provide more performance, but won’t be as power efficient…

The 4-5 hours Chippy noted is comparable to a Clover Trail getting 10-11 hours with the same capacity battery.

While part of your experience, with features like always connected standby is because of immature drivers… Both Windows 8 and the ATOM SoC drivers needed more time to develop.

But Bay Trail should alleviate those issues thanks to the better driver support they should have for the GMA and the fact Windows 8.1 would already be out then and apply all the fixes, etc… Along with better performance to back it all up…

Comment on Lenovo Helix available to order on Lenovo’s website by Victor

Victor — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:32:07 +0000

If it was thirteen, it would be the perfect device for me. Seems I have to decide between screen size and a digitizer. Or wait for the Vaio Duo 13, though I like detachable better.

Comment on Lenovo Helix available to order on Lenovo’s website by Kasper Kyndsberg

Kasper Kyndsberg — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:20:42 +0000

Iv’e been looking at this for a while. I’ve got an Atom based 11,6″ tablet from Asus now which I love, but it could use a little more power.

The price is a bit steep but what I was really wondering is weather an 12,1″ might be more preferable with that resolution and that power? From his videos I guess chippy find the form factor ideal because it’s extremely mobile but I wouldn’t the text be to small?

Comment on Lenovo Helix available to order on Lenovo’s website by Lenovo ThinkPad Helix hybrid ultrabook now available (for $1679 and up) - Liliputing

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:12 +0000

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Comment on Connect by Leon

Leon — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:51:14 +0000

Hi there,

Here’s some pictures of a new Acer ultrabook, the M5-538P.

No details are known about the notebook yet.

http://www.tabletguide.nl/onderwerp/acer-m5-583p-touch/

Comment on Lenovo Helix available to order on Lenovo’s website by Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:24:41 +0000

Hoo boy that’s a lotta moola. Looks like no mobile broadband yet. Hard to resist. If it was a 13″ I’d buy it.

Comment on See Average Battery Life and Check for Connected Standby on Windows 8 by me

me — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:27:52 +0000

The active part of connected standby isn’t that useful for many but the required power management and low power consumption in both hardware and software is the big deal here. This allows for significant gains in battery life.