Apple has been awarded a patent for the wedge design of the MacBook Air. The definition of the design is broad enough to cover many ultrabooks, extending Apple's apparent ownership of black rectangles to thin, vaguely katana-like triangles. Read More >>

If you're thinking about buying a laptop any time soon, don't. Just don't do it. We're at a unique point in history, where weird and wonderful new hardware and revolutionary platform changes of every stripe will converge over the next few months. Read More >>

This week at Computex, PC manufacturers are outing hybrid devices of every stripe. They're fun, goofy, slightly-to-moderately confusing little gadgets, but they're also a reminder that Microsoft isn't going it alone in its massive gamble on Windows 8. Everyone's along for the ride. Read More >>

If nothing else, Toshiba seems determined to not be lumped in with the MacBook clones and iPad ripoffs. Its new Satellite U840W falls in line with its other recent holy crap why does it look like that gear. Which is a good thing! To a point. Read More >>

Sony's new Vaio T ultrabook takes the Vaio line out of the weird limbo it had been in for the past few years, where it hadn't had a true, comprable laptop to the droves of hordes coming out. Though the Euro model of the T Series was announced earlier this month with Sandy Bridge innards, the just-announced US version will come in i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge. That's good news for the Yanks, since there's zero reason you'd want a brand new laptop with last year's chipset. But don't feel too envious -- using it in person, it gives the impression that it's sort of got last year's everything else. Read More >>

Why should ultrabooks be confined to standard laptop screen ratios? Toshiba reckons 16:9 is so last year; 21:9 is where it's at, for full cinema-wide movie viewing with the world's first cinemascope ultrabook, the U840W. Read More >>

After many delays Intel's Ivy Bridge processors were finally unleashed on the world last month. Now here comes the notebook version. Next week we'll get a look at the first wave of Ivy Bridge ultrabooks, courtesy of Intel. Read More >>

The "ultrabook" designation doesn't mean too too much, since manufacturers constantly look for ways to skirt around Intel's sorta-arbitrary specs. But just being on Team Intel's gonna get a few new perks, with its new deal to get all ultrabooks free, automatic, no-login access to 5.6 million Wi-Fi hotspots. Read More >>

Intel's back with the crazy-sauce dancing tiger last seen in the Ultrabook commercial back in March, and yup, this promo (staged in front of the Japanese media just a few days ago) is just as bonkers. I definitely can't say it makes me want to buy an Ultrabook, but a dancing tiger, well...where's the nearest zoo? [@LukeWestaway via SlashGear] Read More >>

Tablets may be the next big thing in mobile computing, but don't count out ultrabooks just yet. At least not until you've given Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Carbon—a feather-weight, carbon fibre workhorse a closer look. It's tough, it's light, and you don't have to be an office drone to crave it. Read More >>

When HP unveiled the Envy 14 Spectre this past January, they offered up something that had been missing from the HP line in the past couple of years: a truly premium notebook. With the introduction of the 13-inch, aluminum-shelled Envy Spectre XT, what was once a single product is primed to become a line of high-end products. Read More >>

While Sony has a track record for making beautifully slim laptops, so far it's ignored Intel's prescribed ultrabook gimmickry. That stops now, with the newly announced Vaio T—but sadly, it's a laptop that's doomed before it even hits the shelf. Read More >>

Intel has released a chart detailing what the next wave of ultrabooks can include, giving a pretty good hint as to what the next round of machines might look like. Read More >>

The "ultrabook" doesn't exactly have people going nuts at the moment. They're great, skinny, fast laptops—but they're not cultural smash. The solution? Create a batshit crazy Japanese acid binge TV commercial? Maybe? And then add more acid. Read More >>

Although we weren't flooded by ultrabooks at CES to quite the extent we expected, the word itself was unavoidable. The skinny-sized laptops abounded, each alluring in its own way! That's when we realised that there's no such thing as an ultrabook. And we shouldn't pretend that there is. Read More >>