ASUS Zenbook UX21E flies off the shelves

The much-admired ASUS Zenbook UX21E has been so popular that our first batch was sold out within a few hours but by the time you read this, we should be fully replenished so if you have customers who just can’t wait to get their hands on this super-cool machine, please get in touch as soon as possible. They will sell fast. The Zenbook is just 17mm at its thickest point and tapers down to just 3mm at the front – so it looks and feels as slim as anything on the market.  Ultra-portable, it’s machined from a single piece of aluminium, so it looks amazingly sleek. Interested? Call us to find out more.

The new iPad

With the release of the new iPad we thought we would let you know some of the key facts and figures that Apple have released.

The new iPad has a breakthrough Retina display, 5-megapixel iSight camera, and ultrafast wireless, and is more immersive than ever before. You can surf the web, check your email, flip through photos, watch a movie, play a game, thumb through a book or magazine, and more. iPad gives you a smarter, more intuitive, more fun way to do everyday things—and thanks to 200,000 apps in the App Store, things you can’t even imagine (App count refers to the total number of apps worldwide).

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Zenbook UX21E wins coveted CNet Laptop of the Year Award

The ASUS Zenbook UX21E meanwhile has walked away with the highly esteemed title of CNet Laptop of the Year – and little wonder. Measuring only 17mm at the thickest point at the back and tapering down to just 3mm at the front, this amazing piece of hardware is as slim as anything on the market and while it has an 11.5-inch screen, it is only 297mm by 196mm so it is truly ultra-portable. It is machined from a single piece of aluminium, which makes it look absolutely fantastic.

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ASUS Transformer gets rave reviews

The ASUS Transformer Prime is the latest version of the company’s excellent convertible tablet form factor and it’s been going down a storm with reviewers and with buyers alike. One recent review in PC Pro said that the Transformer Prime was ‘an improvement over the original in most respects (and most other Android tablets), with better battery life, a superb screen, a good camera and much slicker design’. Hexus.net described it thus: ‘It is the thinnest and lightest tablet we’ve ever seen, yet it houses a gorgeous Super IPS+ display, a quad-core processor, arguably the best tablet camera, and, when combined with the bundled dock, dual batteries that’ll outlast a flight from London to Singapore’.

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HP appoints new UK&I channel boss

HP has named Pascal Bourguet as Channel Director UK and Ireland of its PSG division. Bourguet was previously head of PSG’s consumer sales team. Paul Hunter, vice president of HP PSG in the UK and Ireland, said: ‘Pascal has done an outstanding job of leading the retail team to help drive the UK PSG business to even greater success in 2012.’ Former HP PSG sales manager Alex Ebeid has taken over Bourguet’s previous role.

HP gets go-ahead of Autonomy takeover

HP has won approval for its purchase of leading UK business information software house, Autonomy for £7.1 billion. The deal strengthens HP’s position in the enterprise information management systems market. ‘Autonomy significantly increases our capabilities to manage and extract meaning from that data to drive insight, foresight and better decision making’, Meg Whitman, HP chief executive said in a statement.

Desktops Vs Laptops Vs Tablets… Part 3

Laptops are portable and provide just as much power as a desktop t oday – but there are still plenty of advantages from a user perspective to having a PC on the desk rather than one you take with you everywhere…

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Desktops Vs Laptops Vs Tablets… Part 1

Amidst the excitement about the new tablet formats now coming to market and the continued dominance of the laptop, the desktop PC seems to have been forgotten – but there are many reasons why customers might still want to opt for desktops and current trends could even lead to revival in their fortunes.

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