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  In yet another bid to offer top-of-the-line specifications packed in a stylish machine, market leader Lenovo has brought a new laptop -- Yoga Slim 7i Carbon -- to India that will appeal to both entrepreneurs and millennials. Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon , a Windows 10 Home laptop, comes in two CPU options -- 11th-Gen Core i5 and 11th-Gen Core i7. This is paired with either 8GB/16GB LPDDR4X RAM clocked at 4266MHz, up to 1TB PCIe Gen 3 NVMe SSD, integrated Xe GPU to handle the graphics. It is now available at a starting price of Rs 1,19,990. According to the market research firm IDC, Lenovo led the global traditional PC market (including desktops, notebooks and workstations) in the first quarter of 2020 with a 24.3 per cent share, as the worldwide shipments grew 55.2 per cent (on-year). The new Yoga Slim 7i Carbon laptop, which weighs 0.97 kgs, is powered by the latest 11th-Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPUs. It is also Intel EVO certified, which brings the perfect combination of p...

  Chinese electronics maker Lenovo on Friday launched in India the 11th Gen Intel Core processor powered Yoga 7i, Yoga 9i, and IdeaPad Slim 5i laptops. Priced Rs 63,990 onwards, the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5i is now available on Lenovo web portal, Amazon India, and Lenovo exclusive offline stores. The Yoga 7i and Yoga 9i at Rs 99,000 and Rs 1,69,990, respectively. The Yoga 7i and 9i are available for pre-order on Lenovo web portal. The Yoga 7i will go on sale from January 15, whereas, the Yoga 9i sales will begin from January 12. Lenovo Yoga 7i: Details Powered by the 11th Generation Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics, the Yoga 7i features rounded edges, four-side narrow bezel design, a 360-degree hinge, Rapid Charge Express, and intelligent Cooling for optimising the performance with up to 16 hours of battery life. The Yoga 7i also features Dolby Atmos speaker system, and Lenovo Smart Assist combined with a fingerprint reader for biometric authentication and True...

  Flipkart on Monday launched in India the Nokia PureBook X14 laptop, marking the brand’s entry in to the laptops segment. The Nokia PureBook X14 comes with 10th Gen Intel Core i5 processor, priced at Rs 59,990. The Flipkart-exclusive laptop will be available for preorders from December 18, 2020. The Nokia PureBook X14 is touted to be 1.1 kg in weight and 16.8mm in form-factor. It sports a 14-inch fullHD screen with support for Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR). Besides, the Nokia PureBook X14 supports Dolby Atmos for headphones. “Launching the Nokia brand into this new product category is testament to our successful collaboration with Flipkart. We are excited to offer consumers in India a Nokia branded laptop which brings innovation to address a gap in the market, as well as the style, performance and reliability that the Nokia brand is known for,” Vipul Mehrotra, Vice President – Nokia Brand Partnerships said in a statement. Read More  

  The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus is a one-of-its-kind notebook with dual displays – a 13.3-inch primary screen complemented by a secondary 10.8-inch e-Ink screen. It may not be the only notebook with a dual-screen design, but it is indeed the only that lets you use the secondary screen without lifting the display lid. That is because the e-Ink display is available on the cover, and it is always active – unless the notebook runs out of battery. Therefore, you neither have to open the lid nor wake the laptop to use the secondary screen. Moreover, the e-Ink display is touch-enabled and supports Lenovo’s digital pen tool (an in-box accessory). The e-Ink display is supplementary, and so is its usage. Besides showing notifications, the e-Ink display can be used as an e-reader (through the Windows Kindle app) and PDF viewer with annotate and review functionality. Moreover, you can use it to sketch and take notes. Thankfully, Lenovo has integrated Microsoft OneNote – not something of its own...

  The Asus ExpertBook B9 450F is one of the notebooks Asus recently launched in India as it forayed into the commercial PC market. This thin and light notebook weighs merely 995 g, which makes it the lightest among notebooks in the segment – and even otherwise. Besides, it is also one of the thinnest notebooks, with a waistline of just 14.9 mm. Despite being a true thin and light notebook, the ExpertBook B9 450F does not compromise on any aspect that one looks for in an enterprise-grade notebook. It is powered by the 10th-Gen Intel Core i7 processor, paired with 16 GB of RAM. It boots the Windows 10 Pro operating system and supports fingerprint and face recognition-based biometrics for Windows Hello login. Read More

  Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday announced six new products including notebook, smartwatch and audio accessories during an event in China. The new products include Huawei MateBook X, MateBook 14, two new lightweight notebooks along with FreeBuds Pro, FreeLace Pro and new pro-variants of the audio products featuring improved Active Noise Cancellation (ANC). The company also unveiled Watch GT 2 Pro and Watch FIT, the latest entries to Huawei's wearable product line-up with new fitness data tracking features and workout modes. "Great user experiences are always founded on innovation, but our journey of innovation always begins and ends with consumers. In future, we will continue working with our valued partners to offer more smart and high-quality experiences to consumers worldwide,'' Richard Yu, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei Consumer BG said in a statement. Read More

Xiaomi on Thursday made a global debut of the Mi Notebook-series laptops from India. The Chinese internet company launched the Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition and Mi Notebook 14 with up to 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor. The Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition comes in Core i5 and Core i7 variants, priced at Rs 54,999 and Rs 59,999, respectively. The Mi Notebook 14, on the other hand, ships with Core i5 processor at a starting price of Rs 41,999. The laptops go on sale from June 17 at Mi online store, Amazon India, Mi Home and Mi Studio. It shall also be available on retail outlets soon. Xiaomi Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition specifications and features The Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition laptops have 14-inch fullHD screens with 178-degree viewing angles and anti-glaring coating. Made of aluminium, the thin and light laptops have 91 per cent screen to body ratio. The Horizon Edition comes in two processor variants; Intel Core i5 10th Gen and Intel Core i7 10th Gen. Both the varia...

After cementing its leadership position in the smartphones and televisions segments in India, Chinese conglomerate Xiaomi is gearing up to foray into laptop market by bringing its Mi Notebook to the country next month, a company executive said on Thursday. Xiaomi sells several laptops under Mi Notebook branding globally, including Mi Notebook laptop, a Pro variant, the Mi Gaming laptop and the Mi Laptop Air. Given the company's history in India, it could launch the standard Mi Notebook first in the country. Read More

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is reportedly launching a new 13-inch MacBook Pro next month with the codename J223. According to a noted Apple leaker Jon Prosser, Apple will bring out a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro "next month". The current 13-inch MacBook Pro still uses butterfly keyboards that can suffer from issues such as sticky or unresponsive keys after prolonged use, which prompted Apple to initiate a free repair program worldwide in 2018. Apart from the keyboard, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is expected to get an upgraded processor in the form of one of Intel's 10th-generation Ice Lake chips, built using a 10-nanometer architecture. Last month, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo proposed there would be a replacement of the 13-inch MacBook Pro by one sporting a 14.1-inch Mini LED display. Read More