CES 2016: Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 family revealed

Few PC manufacturers can iterate and refine their products on a steady and regular basis the way that Lenovo has for its ThinkPad line. The X1 series is all about power and portability with the flagship being the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, regarded by many to be the best notebook PC at its price point.

This year at CES, Lenovo is flexing some serious muscle, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is now the world’s lightest 14-inch business ultrabook at just 2.6 pounds (previous version was over 3 pounds). The new flagship is faster and thinner but also drops the multi-touch feature on the display. Check out the video above to see what this new flagship notebook has to offer.

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HP serves up thinner and lighter mobile workstations

Workstations are traditionally expected to be thick, heavy and clunky because they are desktop replacements and require a lot of space for ports, power supplies and graphics cards. HP is changing this notion dramatically with thin, light and sexy laptops that manage to stand out in the sea of corporate notebooks. 

The HP ZBook Studio - HP’s thinnest and lightest full performance model ever brought to the market and can be configured to fit business and road warrior needs with professional choices of memory, processor, graphics and more. The 15.6-inch diagonal HP ZBook Studio, the world's first quad core workstation class Ultrabook sporting Intel Xeon processors as well as fast SSDs and graphics cards. How did they keep the profile so thin? There's an ZBook Studio Dock for expansion with up to 10 ports accessed via a single USB 3.0 slot. The HP ZBook Studio starts at US $1699.00.

Video: ASUS TAICHI offers the best of both notebook and tablet worlds

An intriguing concept for Windows 8 mobile users, the ASUS TAICHI 21 (MSRP of $1300) dual-screen notebook can work as a tablet when closed, a notebook when opened and can mirror content on both screens as well as serve two users simultaneously with 10-finger multi-touch and it also takes stylus input for good measure. 

First Impressions of the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Lenovo's embraced Windows 8 with the dexterous IdeaPad Yoga. A 13-inch Ultrabook that literally bends over backwards to turn into a rather large and heavy 13-inch tablet. Hit jump for a demo video and some first impressions.

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