Asus Chromebook C301SA will come with 64GB of storage for under $300. The original vision for Chromebooks was one of laptops that required the bare minimum of specs thanks to Google’s Chrome OS and its reliance on cloud computing, with a price point that matched. Google itself made the rare exception of trying to go […]
Smart Antenna Technologies 5-in-1 laptop antenna concept Laptop manufacturers constantly seek to shave any inch or ounce off their notebooks to make them more convenient — and attractive — to potential buyers. So a recent development in antenna design might not appear sexy, but could lead to even sexier laptops in the near future. Smart […]
Dell has stopped producing Android tablets like the Venue 8 7000. CNET/CBSi Android has become the operating system for most non-iPhone smartphones, and its app ecosystem is coming to Chromebooks, but it’s not having as much luck recently with the cratering tablet market. (Not that Apple’s iPad is faring much better.) The latest blow comes […]
Toshiba Portégé Z20t-C2100ED education 2-in-1 laptop Toshiba has introduced three new Windows 10 notebooks for the education market, ranging from the typical student system to ones that have trendier features — with price tags to match. The Tecra C40-C1400ED is the type of utilitarian laptop that you might expect to be issued by schools: a […]
Asus ZenPad Z8 Android tablet from Verizon Conventional tablets may be going out of style, but that hasn’t stopped Asus and Verizon from hooking up to launch a new slate for those who want an Android device bigger than a smartphone to use on the go with the carrier’s 4G network. Tablets: Where’s the Productivity? […]
WiTricity’s wireless charging pad for Dell laptops. The future of wireless charging for laptops got a little more confusing over this past week, as leading companies sent opposing signals (no pun intended) about the technology’s viability in a changing PC environment. Wireless charging company WiTricity showcased Dell laptops using its charging mat last week at […]
Intel’s Navin Shenoy, corporate vice president and general manager for the Client Computing Group, at the company’s Computex 2016 keynote. Computex has always been a PC show and with good reason–Taiwan designs most of the world’s computers and manufactures many of the components that end up in them. But with the PC market still in […]
AMD President and CEO Lisa Su at the company’s Computex 2016 press conference. At its Computex press conference, AMD announced the expected Polaris graphics and the latest generation of its A-Series and E-Series processors, which combine x86 CPU cores with Radeon graphics on the same chip. But the big surprise was an update on Summit […]
ARM Executive Vice President Rene Haas (left) and Vice President of Marketing Nandan Nayampally at ARM’s Computex 2016 press conference. The numbers show that smartphones sales are slowing down. But ARM, the semiconductor firm that develops the technology behind nearly all of the world’s 3 billion phones, believes there is still plenty of room for […]
The HP Omen X VR PC Pack Chiropractors should be excited at what might emerge as a future trend in PCs. With the rise of VR, you may be strapping a computer to your back to explore virtual realms. In the past week, a pair of manufacturers have revealed backpack PCs that address a fundamental […]