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Is The Laptop Dead? Yup

2012 is thought to be the year of the Ultrabook, but though these slim machines may prove successful they can't disguise one odd fact: The laptop is a dead design. When will it actually pass away and leave room for a future device?READ»

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Hot Apple Rumor Of The Day: An ARM A5-Powered MacBook

There are whispers from a pretty reliable source that the House of Jobs is testing a MacBook computer powered by one of its own ARM A5 chips, straight from an iPad. It may be the Mac of the future. Should Intel worry?READ»

Behold the iPad Effect: With PC Sales Expected to Slow, Analysts Lower Stock-Price Targets

The iPad is now having a measurable effect on the PC sales industry, according to Deutsche Bank analysts, who increased their price target on Apple's stock and cut price targets for stocks of PC competitors. READ»

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Acer's Tablet Onslaught Revealed, Includes Giant Dual-Screen iPad Rival

Acer, hottest ticket in the netbook game, has just revealed it's not going to sit idly by while Apple's iPad eats its dinner: It's got a wide range of tablets inbound, including a dual-screened half-laptop/half-tablet iPad rival.READ»

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Anarchy In U.K. TV: Brits Turning To Internet, 3-D Broadcasts

Watching TV on your laptop while chatting with friends, HD and 3-D TV ... U.K. viewing habits are changing rapidly, according to a Cisco/Forrester survey. Should TV providers be worried?READ»

How Apple's MacBook Air Refresh Will Slay Optical Drives, Make You Reconsider Hard Drives

This week we're expecting big things from Apple. One of them is a MacBook Air refresh, and some tempting details surfaced over the weekend. The leaked data inspires one interesting thought: Are we about to say bye-bye to the optical drive?READ»

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iFive: HP vs Oracle, ACLU vs DHS, Asteroid Flyby, Xbox Apologizes to Fort Gay, Google Live Search Hint

It's today everyone ... wanna see what's been happening while you were waiting for it to roll around?READ»

Sony Recalls 500,000 Melting Laptops, While Apple Gets an iPhone 4 Press Roasting

Product recalls aren't hugely common but are always an embarrassing PR event ... and as recalls go, Sony's one announced today is a pretty big deal. Over half a million Vaio laptops are at risk, it seems, of running hot enough to ...READ»

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Toshiba's Trio of New Laptops Includes a Dual-Screen, Windows 7 Oddball

Toshiba's Libretto W100 is one of the oddest computers in recent memory: two 7-inch touchscreens that can operate either independently or together. It's certainly unusual, but is it enticing? It's one of three oddball laptops introduced today.READ»

WORLD CUP   |  Comment

World Cup: How Are You Watching?

This week, blogger Michael Surtees showed off his World Cup rig--that is to say, the gear that he's watching the matches on. When we saw the picture, it got us thinking. What kind of set-up are you using to get your football fixes? ...READ»

Intel Introduces Core Processors for Ultrathin Laptops: Get Ready for a Super-Fast MacBook Air

Intel yesterday introduced a new, lower-voltage version of its Core line of processors designed for ultrathin laptops like Apple's MacBook Air. If they deliver on these promises, we're in for some amazing new kit.READ»

CHROME OS   |  Comment

Acer to Introduce First Google Chrome OS Devices in Early June

Google's Chrome OS is a bit of a mystery, but it shouldn't stay that way for long--Acer is believed to be launching the first Chrome OS devices in Taipei within two weeks.READ»

WANTED   |  Comment

WANTED: Henge MacBook Dock

You dock your phone, MP3 player, and peripherals--why not your MacBook?READ»

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WANTED: LG X300 Netbook With Nigh Invincible Gorilla Glass Screen

LG, though not normally known in North America for their PCs, has put together a damn fine-looking one: the X300 netbook, featuring a near-invincible Gorilla glass screen. The X300 is more a netbook than a full-fledged laptop: it's ...READ»

Want a DIY Netbook Built to Your Exacting Standards? Ask Guo Bang

How do you know when a device has moved from being the hot, must-have tech to a standard commodity, cheap at half the price? When you can buy a DIY mix-n-match version of it, like you now can for netbooks thanks to a chinese ...READ»

Spy vs. Sly: Bronx Principal Proves Not Every Teacher Is a Webcam Privacy Violator

There's a new online brouhaha over alleged laptop-spying by a teacher, following the recent horrid remote-spying case in Pennsylvania. But it's really a fuss over nothing--just normal teaching methods aided by 21st Century tech.The ...READ»

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Apple Tablet Set To WOW Consumer Retail Tech Sectors

Insider contacts have confirmed the new Apple Tablet set for release by mid-2010 likely won’t encompass a 3D interface. Although, there’s been enough background murmurings about the method users will employ to ...READ»

Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

INTEL   |  Comment

Intel's Multi-tasking Concept Laptop Brings You Three More Screens

Sitting in the coffee shop with forty Firefox tabs open on your laptop, wishing you had one more monitor? Or three? Today at IDF, Intel introduced a multi-tasking concept PC that allows users to work on their main screen while ...READ»