We’ve admired its beauty, but looks can only get you so far. After unboxing the Surface 3 last week, what we really wanted to know was if the device is actually a capable computer. Equipped with an Intel Atom processor, it isn’t exactly built for horsepower, but Microsoft has still designed the device to be your go-to everyday machine. As such, we put it through some tests to see how...
Haven't we been here before? Following the new MacBook's announcement last month, I was immediately taken back to the year 2008, when Apple introduced the first MacBook Air. It was so thin you could stuff it in a manila envelope; it was a neat party trick, but we soon found out that Apple's new show pony sacrificed a lot to achieve the thinner clamshell design. Years later, and Apple...
Apple added a brand new MacBook to its lineup on Monday, and it’s the thinnest, lightest Apple laptop we’ve ever seen. At just 2 pounds, the MacBook is not much heavier than an iPad Air 2, and it’s 24-percent thinner than Apple’s thinnest MacBook Air. Seriously, it makes the Air, which is elegant and svelte and beautiful, seem downright elephantine. Our devices are getting thinner all...
If you’re gearing up for some holiday shopping this year and have your sights on a new laptop or tablet, look no further than some of Lenovo’s latest products that just hit store shelves in time for the holiday season.
So there was no Surface Mini announcement this week like many were expecting. But Microsoft did introduce a thinner, faster, more advanced follow-up to the Surface Pro 2—and it’s impressive. The company’s Surface devices have always had a vague sense of purpose, and as a result have failed to break into must-own territory. The Surface Pro 3, a direct competitor with Apple’s MacBook Air...
This past May during the Google I/O developers' conference, Google announced the forthcoming availability of Chromebooks, the consumer-facing evolution of their Chrome OS-based CR-48 laptop pilot program. Where CR-48 was a limited edition, free to the chosen few, beta program, Chromebooks were to be a straight-up commercial product, initially available in a handful of flavors from two...
The hardware of the CR-48 is a lot of fun to talk about, and is really impressive. Please note however that in a lot of ways it is irrelevant, because by the time Chrome Notebooks start being marketed and sold, they will most likely be much different. This will not stop me from telling you about the CR-48 and all of its simple goodness.