If you're looking for a new laptop, you have a pretty big decision to make.  Ultrabooks are now very plentiful and have increased their performance and functionality to equal many laptops.  The downside is that you do get a little less upgradability.  The ASUS VivoBook S500C is a device that boarders on the Ultrabook specifications as it's not the slimmest unit out there - but you do get a bit more with the extra girth.  It's still pretty Ultra though - so take a look and see what they think of it.

With four different Ultrabook systems in the lab, we are able to update some of our tests. Notably, PCMark 7 and Powermark have been updated to their latest versions. Previous PCMark 7 scores are not comparable to the new version so all old results have been archived. We've gone ahead and archived Powermark's results at the same time to be sure that results in our charts are all comparable.

Source: TweakTown

There are a ton of Android activations per day - and these are greatly outpacing anything Apple has ever done.  One of the reasons Android is taking the world by storm is because of devices like the HTC One.  This is a very beautiful phone that rivals the design and engineering of anything Apple has ever done.  Once you combine that with the openness and flexibility of Android, this is a very attractive phone.

If HTC scares you, maybe the Sony Xperia Z is more to your liking.  Both of these phones are real contenders for phone-of-the-year for different reasons.  I'm not sure which way I would go, but both are decent choices for sure.

Source(s): HardwareHeaven, TweakTown

AMD has been struggling with their CPU division for a while now, but their graphics division has been doing alright.  A few years ago, Raja Koduri jumped ship and went to Apple and was happy to work there.  Recently AMD make him an offer that he apparently couldn't refuse and now he's coming back.  We do expect good things to come from the AMD/ATI branch in the future.

Raja Koduri, who started his career at S3 Graphics, was one of the leading designers of discrete graphics chips at ATI Technologies and then AMD’s graphics products group for about eight years. Besides, Mr. Koduri was one of the GPGPU (general-purpose computing on graphics processing units) visionaries at the company. His departure to Apple was a great loss for AMD back in 2009, but a great acquisition for Apple, which needed to boost its graphics capabilities and which it clearly did. Raja Koduri was the director of graphics architecture at Apple.

Source: XBit-Labs

Razer is a company that we have worked with a bit over the years.  They support the gaming community and in fact were part of the TigerDirect Build-A-PC-Race for Charity this year.  Recently, there was a rogue coupon that game UK buyers 90% off of their entire order - and thousands or products were ordered.  The awesome thing is that Razer is honoring the coupon - even though they legally have a way out as their webstore provider, Digital River screwed up big-time.  Nicely done Razer.

For orders in the multiples of units for a single product, we will still give each an opportunity to purchase one item of each product ordered at the 90% off discount but not for multiple units of the same product. Our focus is on doing the right thing for our fans, the gamers and the community, not for resellers or users to profit from this. That’s not gaming, that’s not our deal.

Source: Facebook, Min-Liang Tan