Sean Portnoy

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Sean Portnoy started his tech writing career at ZDNet nearly a decade ago. He then spent several years as an editor at Computer Shopper magazine, most recently serving as online executive editor. He received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. from the University of Southern California.

Sean Portnoy is a freelance technology journalist; currently, all work that Sean does is on a contractural basis. Sean has also written corporate communications documents for CA.Sean does not accept gifts from companies he covers. All hardware products he writes about are purchased with his own funds or are review units covered under formal loan agreements and are returned after the review is complete.

Lenovo introduces ThinkPad S431, ThinkPad Edge E431 and E531 laptops

The S431 is a bit more fashion-forward than its siblings, while the new Edge models continue the staid ThinkPad tradition.

published 13 hours ago by Sean Portnoy

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Samsung unveils ATIV Book 5 ultrabook, ATIV Book 6 laptop

The two new Windows 8 notebooks are launched at the same time the company announces that all of its PCs will be sold under the ATIV brand.

April 26, 2013 by Sean Portnoy

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AMD unveils $999 Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics card beast

Packing a pair of Radeon HD 7970 GPUs and 6GB of DDR5 memory, the new card competes against Nvidia's GeForce GTX 690 behemoth.

April 24, 2013 by Sean Portnoy

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