Ultrabooks News & Articles

  2013 gets under way for gadget lovers with a raft of new computers, TVs and tablets coming, plus a host of web-enabled smart devices for the home being shown at CES, with Samsung leading the way in many categories. 

Microsoft's billion dollar advertising campaign for Windows 8 got under way over the weekend with a countdown to all the things you can do with the new OS, as the company prepares a new Xbox Music service. Does the ad appeal, did it strike a chord, more importantly did the non-tech members of your family seem interested?

 Microsoft announced that Office 2013  has hit the Release to Manufacturing milestone, which sets the company up for an upgrade smorgasbord. Will users look to upgrade their whole PC, their OS, or their Office applications in the coming months, or all three? 

 While a lot of the hype at yesterday's Samsung Unpacked event was around the new Galaxy Note 2, PC users will be taking a keen look at the company's Windows RT and Windows 8 tablet PCs with a range of underlying technologies. 

According to a published-too-early Microsoft blog post, it looks like the public preview release (following on from the tech and consumer beta) is due to be unveiled in the next day or two, allowing all levels of user to try out the upcoming operating system and play with the Metro interface.

Las Vegas' annual Consumer Electronics Show shindig starts on January 10 and, alongside the latest batch of smartphones and tablets, it is the new class of PC ultrabooks that will take center stage.