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.
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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 …
Brydge iPad Keyboard Dock Looks to MacBook for Style Cues
A new Kickstarter project called Brydge aims to make iPads more like MacBooks–just in time for Apple CEO Tim Cook’s comments about the danger of combining the two products.
Brydge is an iPad keyboard dock with a magnetized …
Is Apple CEO Tim Cook Right? Are Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Dead in the Water?
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the idea of a laptop-tablet hybrid is tantamount to shoving a toaster into a refrigerator. It’s a clever, sound-bite-y analogy. It’s also wrongheaded. But before we go there, let’s give Cook’s comments the …
Ford Fusion 2013 Trounces Competition, Adds 100 MPGe Plug-in Hybrid
Ford just took the wraps off three streamlined new 2013 Fusions, including a head-turning plug-in hybrid it claims can do 100 MPGe, or “miles per gallon gasoline equivalent,” a way of quantifying performance when measuring …