Latest Laptops Articles

• 20 June 2013

• News: Best Buy recalls 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire

  Best Buy has recalled about 5,100 replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, after 13 reports that the battery caught fire, a U.S. consumer safety agency said.

• 19 June 2013

• News: Today's workers demand flexibility, mobility--and Facebook

  Technology has changed everything we know about the office. Now it is threatening to get rid of the office as we know it.

• Feature: Dell Inspiron 15 vs Inspiron 15z

  Pitting Dell's entry-level 15.6in laptop against the top-end Ultrabook.

• Lenovo outs first 15in ThinkPad Ultrabook

  Lenovo has announced its ThinkPad S531, the firm's first 15in ThinkPad Ultrabook laptop.

• 18 June 2013

• News: Acer updates its $199 C7 Chromebook, adds SSD

  Acer has announced that a new version of its C7 Chromebook will be available at Walmart stores and online at Walmart.com for $199. The refreshed model includes a 16GB SSD.

• News: Walmart taking the Chromebook mainstream

  Walmart has begun selling the Chromebook in 2,800 of its approximately 4,600 U.S. stores, expanding the reach of this still-on-the-margins platform. Staples too.

• Feature: The evolution of the laptop

  Laptop computers have been around for much longer than people think, though they’ve changed unimaginably from the first stumbling steps to the thin and powerful machines we have today

• News: Google adds more retailers for Chromebook

  Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by over 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers.

• 17 June 2013

• News: Advice from an Apple Tech: Your first time under the hood

  You have a Mac. And some half-crazed part of your brain really, really wants to take it apart and tinker with it, upgrade it in every way possible, and put it back together again. You've been warned not to do it, but warnings be damned.

• News: Macs in business

  Apple's Mac sales have been growing over recent years. It's tempting for the Windows market to say things like "Sure, home users like them, but they're useless for real work", but that's simply not true. Macs are now common in workplaces across many different market sectors.

• Opinion: Targus USB 3.0 Dual Video Docking Station

  Using the Targus docking station you can help to turn your humble laptop into more of a desktop workstation

• 14 June 2013

• News: Decades-old bets in Myanmar's tech industry finally reap rewards

  It may have taken almost two decades, but Tun Thura Thet's investment in one of Asia's poorest countries is finally paying off.

• 13 June 2013

• News: New MacBook Air still stymies repairs, upgrades

  Apple's newest MacBook Air, nearly identical to its predecessor, is not any easier to repair, iFixit said this week after tearing apart one of the just-released ultra-light notebooks.

• News: Haswell MacBook Air speeds up with faster graphics, flash storage

  Apple on Monday updated the MacBook Air with Intel's fouth generation Core processors, code named Haswell. Macworld Lab has the new MacBook Air and the results are interesting, to say the least--the 2012 and 2013 13-inch models received the same overall system performance score in Speedmark 8, but individual tests tell a different story.

• How-Tos: Watch TV on your laptop remotely using Slingbox

  Slingbox is a network video tool that allows you to take your home TV setup with you no matter where you are in the world

• How-Tos: How your Windows 8 laptop stays connected when in sleep mode

  One of the latest technologies in modern laptops can increase the life of your battery and keeping your PC up-to-date all in one go

• 12 June 2013

• Feature: Windows Blue release date and features

  Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses. Next up is Windows 8.1, aka 'Windows Blue'. Here we look at what is Windows Blue (Windows 8.1), as well as the likely Windows Blue release date.

• How-Tos: How to remotely access a Windows laptop

  With Remote Desktop you can access and use any PC on your network, even when you’re not at home

• 11 June 2013

• News: Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops

  With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.

• Opinion: What's so great about Haswell?

  All's well that Haswell: Intel's new Core i3, i5 and i7 processors use less power than ever before, so we should start to see powerful laptops that really do last all day. But does anyone care about the technology any more?

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