There appears to be no end in sight to the Chromebook phenomenon, which has seen PC maker after PC maker jump onto Google’s Chrome OS-powered bandwagon. Samsung, Acer, Lenovo, and HP have all joined the fray, and this week Acer expanded its own offerings with yet another entry. Following up on the $199 Acer C7 [...]
Best Buy Offers $100 Discount on Windows 8 Touchscreen PCs
February 24, 2013 | Posted by
Best Buy is kicking off a two-week promotion Sunday that will serve up $100 discounts on Windows 8 touchscreen PCs, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The discount doesn’t yet appear on the Best Buy site and the retailer didn’t immediately respond to PCMag’s request for further information on which products would be part of the promotion. It [...]
Review: Microsoft Surface Pro Falls Short as Tablet or PC
February 6, 2013 | Posted by
U.S. tech writers have given Microsoft’s new Surface tablet-laptop hybrid largely negative reviews, casting a shadow over the software group’s hopes to take a bite out of sales of Apple’s iPad and MacBook Air. The latest Surface runs on an Intel chip and features the full Windows 8 Pro operating system, which Microsoft hopes will make the device [...]
HP Launches Seriously Powerful Business Laptop
January 24, 2013 | Posted by
Windows 8 in a business laptop? Well, it needed to happen sooner or later, but in the case of the Elitebook Folio 9470m, the execution feels premature and expensive. It’s a shame, because the 9470m is a direct descendent of last year’s HP Folio 13 ultrabook, a device I considered at the time to be among the [...]
Review: HP EliteBook Folio 9470m Ultrabook
January 4, 2013 | Posted by
The HP EliteBook Folio 9470m Ultrabook is a business-oriented notebook made to work in the Windows 8 environment, with an amalgamation of hardware that is precision-tuned to suit in- and out-of-office needs. At first glance, this machine does not appear to be the most unique piece of machinery on the planet – it’s a silver laptop, after all. [...]
The Future is Now: Eye-Controlled Computers Are Here
January 2, 2013 | Posted by
When we tried out a prototype of Tobii’s eye controller this time last year, it made us believe in technology again. Unlike many prototypes, though, it’s now a real thing. Tobii has announced the launch of REX: a USB-connected device that allows computers to be controlled using Gaze UI. That software lets users navigate, zoom, select [...]
2013 Microsoft Surface Tablets Getting Even Larger Screens
December 4, 2012 | Posted by
Although Microsoft is just getting started with its 2012 Surface tablets (as shown above), the company plans to launch three new devices in the next year, according to a well-known source of leaks. The so-called “MS Nerd” posted details about these supposed Surface tablets on a protected Twitter feed. Neowin spotted the tweets and posted [...]
Windows 8 Wins Pocket-lint Gadget Awards ‘Product of the Year’
December 1, 2012 | Posted by
This year has been a bumper year for gadgets. In 2012 we’ve had the launch of the iPad mini, the Nexus 7 and 10, two full-sized iPads, dozens of devices from Asus and Samsung, and the Microsoft Surface and others – and that’s just in tablets. When you start the task of also trying to [...]
Microsoft Windows 8 Adoption Outpaces Even Windows 7; 40 Million 1st Month Licenses
November 28, 2012 | Posted by
Microsoft has stepped up to prove naysayers wrong on early Windows 8 adoption. Tami Reller, the software giant’s new co-chief of the Windows division, told a Credit Suisse investor conference in Arizona on Tuesday that Window 8 upgrades are outpacing Windows 7 in its first month. “The journey is just beginning, but I am pleased [...]
The Thick, Beautiful AT&T Nokia Lumia 920
November 4, 2012 | Posted by
With the Nokia Lumia 920 we’ve been promised a hero device for Windows Phone 8, and indeed it has been defended several time before its release by Nokia and Microsoft – in so many words. But is Nokia’s Nokia’s brand power enough to make us believe the hype? This is supposed to be a “fundamental [...]
