Intel Clover Trail tablets are the ultrabooks of the slate world Chipmaker Intel takes another step in the ultraportable direction with a new classification of tablet When Intel says jump, laptop manufacturers ask how high. When Intel said build ultrabooks, we saw a tidal wave of the skinny super laptops hit the shelves. So now that Intel has devised a new set of specifications for itsClover Trailtablets, we can expect at least 20 on their way already, including theLenovo Think Pad 2,Asus Vivo Tab,Dell Latitude 10andSamsung ATIV Smart PC....

Intel Ivy Bridge HP laptops due in April The third generation of Intel processors has cropped up in HP’s new Pavilion range Finally the wait for faster Intel processors with better performance for laptop batteries is coming withIvy Bridge, launching in April. A leaked HP press release reveals April 8th as the pre-order day for a new range of Pavilion laptops all featuring Intel’s third generation Ivy Bridge processors. The laptops all packing Intel i7 processors, expected to ship on April 29th come in two sizes, 14in and 15....

iPad 3 incoming! Apple announces March 7th event date iPad 3 is likely to be released at Apple’s upcoming event in San Francisco Apple’s next big event, believed to be the announcement of the iPad 3, will officially be held on March 7. The event is being held in San Francisco at 6pm GMT. Apple sent out its press invites within minutes of the start of Google’s keynote at MWC 2012, a move in no way intended to overshadow Android....

iPad 3 will have super fast A6 quad-core and 4G LTE After a source revealed hands-on fun with the iPad 3, a few specs are near certain The iPad 3 will have an A6 quad-core processor and 4G LTE connection according to a source that leaked the information toBGR. The lucky leaker wasn’t cheeky enough to reveal photos of the tablet itself but read-outs from his debug screen reveal plenty....

iPad Mini appears in iOS developer code logs Apple’s tiny tablet becomes a little more tangible in Instapaper device stats Instapaper developer Marco Arment may have dug up some concrete evidence of the Apple iPad Mini. Rummaging around in his app’s device stats, he stumbled across an iPad2,5 and an iPad2,6 – existing iPad 2 models only go up to iPad2,4. Arment’s careful to point out that the iPad2,5 and iPad2,6 may simply be jailbroken fakes or GSM and CDMA versions of the iPad 2 with a die-shrunk iPad 2 update that came out around the launch of thenew iPad....

iPad Mini gets rumoured US$250 price Apple’s smaller tablet won’t only be mini in size, but also in price Apple’srumoured 7.85in tablet, theiPad Mini, has just been given a price of a meagre US$250. Watch outAmazon Kindle Fire 2. The rumoured pint-sized slate from Apple should be heading our way around August, according to Chinese portalNetease, which speculates that the iPad Mini is Apple’s way of fighting back against the upcoming attack from Windows 8 tablets....

iPad Mini isn’t overpriced, says Apple Apple’s latest miniature slate isn’t too expensive according to Phil Schiller, but are you willing to pay a little extra? UPDATE: iPad Mini full review here Apple’s Phil Schiller has told Reuters that “consumers will see Apple’s smaller tablet as a premium product worth paying for” after a few eyebrows were raised at the 16GB Wi-FiiPad Mini’s £270 price tag. That’s £70 more than the 16GBGoogle Nexus 7, which makes up for its less premium build, lack of rear camera and slightly smaller screen with quad-core innards and a higher res display....