Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

With its consumer focused IdeaPad U310, Lenovo showed that it ‘got’ the Ultrabook segment and impressed us with a solid, powerful and distinctive Ultrabook with great battery life and an even greater value at around $600.

With the new ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Lenovo has put all of its efforts into creating one of the most distinctive new notebooks in the market. 

Click to read more ...

McAfee Safeguards Facebook Photos by blurring with McAfee Social Protection

McAfee today announced the availability of a free public beta of McAfee Social Protection, a new app for Facebook that protects users’ photos from being shared without their permission. Offered as a Facebook app together with a browser plug-in, McAfee Social Protection lets users select which friends have access to their photos and makes pictures appear blurry to everyone else.

Click to read more ...

Lenovo's Windows 8 tablet shoots for enterprise

Acer may be bellyaching about Microsoft's decision to make its own Windows 8 Surface Tablet, but it seems Lenovo is ready for the challenge from Redmond.  Aimed directly at the enterprise market, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 is 0.39 inches thick and weighs a paltry 1.3 pounds, it is  thinner and lighter than the Microsoft Surface Pro.

Featuring a 10-hour battery life, the legendary ThinkPad construction and 3G and 4G connectivity options, this device is set to smooth the landing of Windows 8 for on-the-go executives or field operatives (and students). No pricing or availability has been revealed but we expect this one to be out in time for Windows 8's October 26 launch

Video: Toshiba's 21:9 Panoramic Ultrabook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

This is the Toshiba Satellite  U840W Ultrabook and it is one of the most unique and intriguing form factors we have seen.

Clad in machined aluminum with a healthy dose of rubber, this 3.5 pound notebook is ideal for running multiple windows and watching films in a more cinematic aspect ratio.

With the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors, harman/kardon stereo speakers and LED screen, it is a premium notebook that is unlike anything else in the market right now. The ultrawidebook also has a hybrid-SSD with 32GB of Solid State storage and 500GB of hard drive space, 6GB of RAM and a starting price of $1099.99 makes this an interesting entrant in the high end notebook market.