Latest Laptops News

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• News: Alienware shows off its all-new gaming notebook lineup

  If there's one thing Dell has done right over the years, it's been to let Alienware--the boutique gaming PC manufacturer Dell acquired in 2006--remain Alienware. Based on the new notebook lineup that Alienware unveiled tonight, that let-'em-be strategy is still working.

• News: Acer bets big on Android (yes, Android) PCs

  Acer's "prototype" N3-220 Android all-in-one is more than than just a trial balloon, executives said Monday. It represents the first in a series of PCs that will use Google free mobile OS to carve out a new niche in the ultra-competitive PC market.

• 10 June 2013

• News: New MacBook Airs offer all-day battery life, better graphics performance

  If Apple has anything to say about it, the future of the notebook will be long and healthy. And it will be exemplified in the new versions of the MacBook Air, announced during Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote, and available immediately.

• News: Why the time is right for the 'Droidbook'

  Years ago, when Google launched its ChromeOS-powered Chromebooks, people wondered why they weren't powered by Android, its existing mobile OS. It's time to start asking those questions again.

• News: Get a PC for just £24

  A new scheme backed by Microsoft is offering consumers in Briton PCs and laptops from just £24.

• 06 June 2013

• News: Wintel under siege as mobile and Android ascend at Computex

  Surging tablet sales and the muted response to Windows 8 have opened the door for Android at this year's Computex and exposed deeper cracks in the Wintel powerhouse of Windows software and Intel chips.

• News: Notebooks with Intel's version of Kinect due in late 2014

  Intel has backed its vision for computers that see and hear by dedicating a $100 million investment fund to the venture, and committed its customers to supplying the technology by late 2014.

• News: How small businesses can unravel the extended-warranty conundrum

  The conventional wisdom has always held that extended warranties are a sucker's bet. It's often said that businesses far and wide--from automakers to computer companies--make more money on the sale of extended warranties than they do from the actual products they make. Consumer Reports has led this charge for years, finding that retailers that push extended warranties and service plans keep 50 percent or more of what they charge for them.

• 05 June 2013

• News: Fujitsu 'world's thinnest' laptop has 11-hour battery, three times Full HD

  Fujitsu will this month launch a super-thin Ultrabook, built on Intel's latest Haswell processors, with an 11-hour battery life and a screen with nearly three times HD resolution.

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