Just a few years back, buying a laptop was as easy as walking into a Wal-Mart or Best Buy, strolling past the netbooks, plunking down a few hundred bucks on a Windows machine with a trackpad that didn ...

That Ultrabook label on thin Windows laptops has no real meaning, so be careful when you buy a new laptop For all the years the Apple MacBook Air has been on the market, some PC maker has tried to ...

Acer plans to rival the MacBook Air this October with a new 13.3-inch Ultrabook laptop featuring Intel Core Sandy Bridge chips, longer battery life, and solid-state or hard disk storage options, ...

Thin laptops have evolved beyond mere portability, with models under 1.2kg such as the MacBook Air M4 achieving impressive Geekbench scores of 12,434 while maintaining sub-14mm profiles. These ...

During the last three months of any year, PC vendors sell about 45% of all of the PCs that they offer in that calendar year. And if consumers buy enough of these PCs, the vendors are able to turn a ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

One of last year's most head-turning laptops, the Samsung Series 9, is back, with an even slimmer, sleeker look. Just one year ago, at CES 2011, the term "ultrabook" was never uttered. Instead, we saw ...