Android was the main focus at the Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, with announcements for the Nexus 7 tablet and a strange streaming device dubbed the Nexus Q. Here's a closer look.
When I witness many vendors’ excitement around notebooks, I’m sensing they’re investing in the past, not in the future. Rarely am I struck with such a feeling, but that’s exactly the feeling I’ve been having lately.
It turns out the MacBook Pro with Retina display costs significantly less than the non-Retina Pro if you build them out with the same specs. So why wouldn’t you just buy a Retina model?
Scenes from Microsoft’s tablet event in Los Angeles. The company announced Microsoft-designed “Surface” tablets built to run Windows 8, which is expected later this year.
A couple years ago, 11-inch laptop gaming was all the rage — but with Dell pulling its Alienware ultraportable, does Origin PC’s new Ivy Bridge-based EON11-S get the job done?
Microsoft’s big press event answered some questions about its tablet plans. But it prompts even more new ones.
Why buy a laptop that runs nothing but a web browser, when you could buy a laptop that runs everything? That’s the question that comes up in pretty much every debate about Chromebooks — a series of stripped-down laptops that are merely vessels for Google’s Chrome web browser.
Apple and Google have each unveiled dazzling new 3D mapping tools, but one thing each lacks is a detailed, real-time street-level view. Enter Hover, a startup with a real-time mapping approach it claims can make real-time ground-level mapping a reality.
Different priorities are nudging Windows PCs and Apple’s computers down two paths with less and less in common.
At the close of Apple’s not-entirely-a-surprise next-gen MacBook Pro reveal at WWDC on Monday, Phil Schiller told the audience it was “the best computer Apple has ever made.” The implication: The new Pro is much more than just a portable powerhouse.
Apple’s new flagship mobile Mac is thinner, lighter and faster than its predecessors. And its amazing display is, quite literally, unlike anything you’ve seen before.
