Loading ...Hey, look at this: Kinect on a laptop. OK, so there we go. According to The Daily, companies are well on their way to making laptops–or, at least, laptop prototypes–running Windows 8 and equipped with Kinect motion camera hardware instead of standard webcams. The Daily got to see some of this technology first hand on [...]
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The main theme of the Consumer Electronics Show this year, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock this week, is the ultrabook. These lightweight laptops are chasing after the MacBook Air, trying to undercut Apple’s $1,000 price tag and add their own flair to the lineup of super-slim devices. Intel, the company behind the [...]
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Netbook sales have been declining, with major vendors deciding to leave the netbook market entirely. That hasn’t stopped Intel from launching a new family of processors designed for small and cheap laptops. The new chips are the Atom N2600 and N2800, based on the Intel’s third-generation Atom architecture, codenamed Cedarview. The Cedar Trail-M platform pairs [...]
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How much does that Samsung Chromebook really cost? According to an iSuppli teardown, the device’s bill of materials comes to $322.12. With the manufacturing cost throw in, the Chromebook costs $334.32 to produce. Despite Google’s emphasis on the software, meanwhile, iSuppli finds that it’s the hardware that really makes the Chromebook sing. “As much as [...]
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Big-box computer sales decline after six quarters of growth According to research firm Gartner, global shipments of PCs came to 84.3 million in the first quarter. However, after six quarters of growth, that figure marked a 1.1% decline. (Keep in mind that Gartner was projecting 3% increase). What happened? There are several reasons for the [...]
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Apple today announced a refresh of its MacBook Pro line of laptops. The highlights? New, faster processors, more powerful graphics processors, an HD camera and a new port for a technology that Apple is calling Thunderbolt. Cosmetically, the new Pros look very similar to their predecessors. There are still 13-, 15- and 17-inch models (starting [...]
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Walmart says it will be offering a 15.6-inch notebook for under $200 in its post-Thanksgiving & Black Friday& sale. The eMachines eME528-2325 includes a 15.6-inch screen, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard disk drive, an HDMI output, and a DVD drive, according to the reseller. Walmart’s Black Friday laptop is one of the best mobile [...]
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“Dell this month settled a lawsuit that it knowingly shipped millions of faulty computers and then concealed those problems from its customers. The primary cause of the problems were cheap capacitors. Or should we say, overly cheap capacitors. Michael Dell and the company this month finally settled with the SEC on charges the company had [...]
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Recently a battery completely failed in a two-year old black 2.16GHz MacBook that was covered under AppleCare. It worked fine one day, went completely dead the next. It wouldn’t charge and no LEDs would light up. When I brought it into the genius bar at my local Apple Store I learned something interesting about the [...]
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