The HP Envy 14 Spectre is pretty bulky

HP has unveiled the HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook, which is the latest addition to the growing number of Intel Ultrabooks launched here at CES 2012.

Hours after Intel's Ultrabook press conference, which promised touchscreen portables, and tablet hybrids, we saw the HP Spectre - a more traditional laptop, which is aimed at bringing Ultrabooks to style-conscious media consumers.

At 14-inches it's slightly bigger than most Ultrabooks making it great for watching movies or viewing pictures, but it features a super-thin bezel, which doesn't add any bulk.

The panel itself is a stunningly bright 1,600x900 Super-TFT, making it a better laptop for

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The first-generation ultrabook war is getting bloody, with the Toshiba Satellite Z830 and Lenovo Ideapad U300S emerging from the pits to take on the Asus Zenbook and this machine, the Acer Aspire S Series. This four-way battle royale should be a fierce contest, but can Acer do enough to beat down the super-thin-yet-powerful laptop competition?

The Taiwanese company certainly has experience producing every variety of laptop, from the ultra-portable Timeline range of models such as the Acer Aspire Timeline X 3820TZ to the mighty Ethos multimedia machines including the Acer Aspire Ethos 5943G.

One of its dinkiest offerings yet, the 13.3-inch Acer Aspire S3-951 is an appealing prospect

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The wait for the flurry of Intel ultrabooks is over, and the Lenovo IdeaPad U300S is among the latest super thin and light Windows laptops to come to the fore.

It joins the likes of the Toshiba Portege Z830, Toshiba Satellite Z830, Asus Zenbook UX31 and Acer Aspire S3 in the ultrabook range, a new kind of laptop category that is critically important for the future of the entire market.

Ultrabooks are super-thin, light, sleek and powerful laptops that aim to emulate Apple's

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If you wanted a stylishly light and powerful Toshiba laptop, you would immediately look to the Japanese company's Portege R830. That is, until you came across the Toshiba Satellite Z830-10U, priced at £999 in the UK (the US price isn't yet available).

Toshiba's shiny entry into the ultrabook market will go up against the likes of the Acer Aspire S3 and the Asus Zenbook UX21.

These super light and thin laptops are already among us, and are aiming to take some of the

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The world of portable gaming has a new reigning king. The Republic of Gamers G74SX- is a performance notebook that imposes its will with the combined power of a second generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM CPU and NVIDIA® GTX 560M GPU with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM. A score of P2008 in 3DMark11 and P9180 in 3DMark Vantage takes over the reins as the fastest notebook in the land. Support for DirectX®11 ensures that you'll not only have the fastest rig in town, but also the ability to play games as they were meant to be seen for a long time.

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