It’s easy to chalk up recent Surface Windows 8 Pro reviews as evidence that Microsoft can’t pull off a single operating …
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Acer Iconia W510 Review: A Weak Windows 8 Tablet with a Dealbreaker Dock
Out of the entire first wave of Windows 8 hybrids that launched late last year, Acer’s Iconia W510 was the one that interested me most. It’s all the more heartbreaking, then, that it isn’t very good.
How Best Buy Picks Its Windows 8 Tablets (and Why Its Stores Have So Few of Them)
Walk around the PC section of a Best Buy right now, and it won’t look drastically different than it did before the launch of Windows 8. That may change over the next six to nine months.
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Review: A Great Windows 8 Laptop with a Side of Tablet
After years in pursuit of the same old goals — thinner, lighter, faster, cheaper — Windows 8 has provided a novel challenge: Create laptops that can transform into tablets, or vice versa.
Windows 8 Is Here, but Where Are the Tablets?
Now’s not the best time to go Windows 8 tablet hunting.
The Big Launch List of Windows 8 Tablets and Hybrids
With less than a week until Windows 8 launches, hardware makers are embracing the new operating system with tablets and hybrids. Here’s a guide to all of the ones that are coming soon, arranged by price.
With Webtop Dead, It’s Time to Rethink Modular Computing
When Motorola announced Webtop in January 2011, I fell for the hype, hard.
Webtop was an accessory that turned Motorola’s Atrix 4G phone into a simple laptop, with a keyboard, trackpad and a full version of Mozilla’s Firefox …
Acer’s Iconia W700 Is a Curious Tablet-Desktop Hybrid
When Windows 8 launches on Oct. 26, expect to see lots of hybrid PCs that combine a tablet and a laptop into a single, convertible device.
Acer’s Iconia W700 is an example of something different: the tablet-desktop …
Are Notebooks Becoming Relics?
Ben Bajarin is a principal at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every Monday here on …
12 Unique Computers, Tablets and Gadgets That Are Just Around the Bend
Here’s a glimpse at the next wave of computing – tablets, laptops, all-in-ones and the ever-blurring lines between them – plus a few other unique gadgets thrown in for good measure.
Asus Taichi: Windows 8 Laptop Sports Rear-Facing Touchscreen
According to The Verge, the recently-announced Asus Taichi is “essentially a laptop with a display on both sides of its lid” that’ll be available in 11.6- and 13.3-inch screen sizes.
Each display features a full 1080p …
Report: Windows 8 Tablets with Intel Chips Coming in November
More than a dozen Windows 8 tablets with processors from Intel will hit stores in November, according to a report from CNET.
At least half of those devices will be hybrids that can transform from a tablet into a laptop with a …
