Ever since Google launched the first Chromebooks two years ago, the company’s vision for always-on, cloud-based computing has …
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Intel Is Basically Trying to Revive the Netbook
The netbook is dead. Or so says nearly every pundit, analyst and research firm that watches the PC market. But don’t tell that to Intel.
Can HDTV Behemoth Vizio Chart a Similar Course with Its New PCs?
The first TV I ever bought was from Vizio. I was fresh out of college and the relatively young company offered me exactly what I was looking for — an attractive HDTV that I could actually afford.
To go from a brand-new …
Coming Soon: Ultrabook Price Cuts
If you’re thinking about buying an Ultrabook–a thin and light Windows laptop that’s meant to rival Apple’s MacBook Air–you might want to wait until April.
That’s when Intel is expected to launch its Ivy Bridge processor …
2012: Year of the Ultrabook
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
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IDF Preview: Can UltraBooks Save the PC Industry?
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
This week, I will join around 5,000 others who will head to San Francisco to attend Intel’s Developer Forum. For Intel and much of the PC industry …
The Race to Beat the MacBook Air Is On
Laptop heavyweight HP may soon try to take on Apple’s MacBook Air with an ultra-thin notebook of its own.
The laptop would be part of a new category of PCs that Intel is calling “Ultrabooks,” measuring less than an inch thick and selling for under $1,000. According to DigiTimes’ unnamed sources, HP’s early entrant would use Intel’s Core
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World’s First No-Glasses 3D Laptop Arrives Next Month
I’m still probing for the point of three-dimensional legerdemain as a grumbler and entertainment snob who’ll skirt the 3D versions of most things (especially movies), but if you’re impressed by what seems increasingly like a fad, you can lay hands and eyeballs on the world’s first no-glasses 3D laptop for just north of $2,000 next …
When All You Want Is the Web: Google ‘Chromebooks’ Are Here
Google’s big bet on web-only laptops has now been fully realized with the consumer availability of Chromebooks. There are two models—one from Acer and one from Samsung—each available either with a 3G cellular connection built-in or as lower-priced Wi-Fi-only versions.
The Acer AC700 starts at $350 for the Wi-Fi version, with the …
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Android vs. Chrome: The Inevitable Showdown
I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday this week at Google’s massive I/O developer shindig in San Francisco. And then I wrote a Technologizer column for TIME.com on the first day’s keynote, which was jam-packed with Android news. But I could just have easily written a column about day two’s keynote, which was devoted to Google’s Chrome …
Two Minute Video: Samsung Takes On the MacBook Air
This 13-inch Samsung Series 9 notebook I have here is a sexy slab, my friends. It tips the scales at 2.88 pounds thanks to Samsung’s use of aircraft-grade “Duralumin” which is apparently twice as strong as aluminum.
The backlit keyboard is one of the best I’ve used and the computer itself feels like it’s generally in hyperdrive—it …
