Comparisons Category

If you’ve read my previous post, you probably know that I’ve been playing with the Asus MemoPad Smart ME301T for the last couple of weeks. If not, go ahead and read that review. Anyway, after telling you all there is to know about that tablet, it’s now time to put the MemoPad ME301T next to [...]

Asus is the brand behind Google’s Nexus 7, the most impressive 7 inch tablets of the moment. Asus is also the brand behind the Memo Pad ME172V we’re reviewing here, or the MemoPad 7 as it might be called on some markets. Shortly, the MemoPad is a cheaper and striped down version of the Nexus [...]

Apple reinvented tablets with their iPad a while ago and ever since the iPad has been the most popular slate in stores. 2012 is the year of the iPad 3, but Android tablet manufacturers are trying harder than ever to undermine its authority. The Asus Transformer Infinity TF700 is these days perhaps the best Android [...]

Asus makes some of the most popular Android tablets out there, part of their Transformer Pad line. Their latest releases, the mainstream Pad TF300 and the premium Infinity TF700, are some of the best in their classes right now. But many of you looking to buy an Android slate this year will eventually compare the [...]

When speaking about netbooks, Asus’s EEE PCs automatically come to ones mind. This mini laptop series has come a long way in its short life (as it was launched only a couple of years ago), and this year, Asus decided to redesign their EEE PC family altogether. In this post we’re going to talk about [...]

In essence, an ultrabook is the next logical step in portable computer evolution. It’s slimmer and lighter than traditional laptops, but being able to deliver the same experience as a normal laptop or even a full fledged desktop computer. Intel rushed to hail the ultrabook as the next ruler of the computer world- laptops, netbooks [...]

When Intel introduced the ultrabook, they claimed that the ultrabook will have tablet like features. Tablets are basically “always on”- all you have to do is touch the screen or press the home button and you’re back in the saddle. Laptops and netbooks, on the other hand, need time to boot up or resume from [...]

Some might say that there’s no difference between an ultrabook and the MacBook Air, that actually ultrabooks are nothing else than MacBook Airs in disguise, running on Windows instead of OSX. These are both ultra slim laptops, with great batteries and weighing just around 1 kg. Apple experienced with ultra slim laptops before and this [...]

Enthusiasts and mighty Intel claimed that ultrabooks will be a major game changer and that by 2013, this new ultra thin laptops will dominate the market of personal computers. Of course, we have to keep things into perspective and realize that the ultrabook is a natural successor of a couple of devices, including the netbook. [...]

Comparing ultrabooks with chromebooks means comparing high end entries with computers aimed at budget conscious buyers. The ultra-thin profiles, great batteries, posh lids and strong hardware we have on Ultrabooks comes at a price- around a thousand bucks. The cheapest ultrabook, Toshiba’s Portege, goes for around 800 bucks, and for that amount of money you [...]