Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity.
LG have raised the stakes when it comes to ultrabooks with the new Z430 laptop, this is a real smart looking machine finished in polished metal and as light as a laptop could be. The Z430 is not currently available but is definitely worth the wait to see if is actually does live up to the standards that LG claim.
The newly released Pavilion dm4-3000 from HP is one of those laptops that offers so many options and upgrades that is difficult to see where an average set up would be. So in this case are using the suggested HP package as base, but this is not by any means the top of the range or even the entry level machine.
Now before we start here on the smart looking Lenovo ThinkPad X130e, we have an issue that will concern many consumers and it is about price. Lenovo have this practice of having an advertised price and a web price, in the case the advertised price starts from $938, yet the web price is merely $429 that is a saving of $509! What is that all about? We know that there are marketing gimmicks and of course, offers to encourage pre-ordering. But that is one big drop in price for laptop that has not even been launched yet.
The thing about launching a new 11.6 inch laptop into an already busy marketplace is always going to be a challenge, but if anyone can do it, Asus can. The Eee PC 1225B is smart looking piece of kit and it has the added bonus of being powered by AMD’s most powerful E-series accelerated processor the Brazos E-450. This laptop has nice clean lines and comes in a choice of colour, Matte Gray, Red or Silver and Glossy Black or White, other than that it looks very similar to other Asus models still available.
Toshiba has always gone for the high end of the market and with the introduction of the new R731/W5UE notebook; it is safe to say that there is no change there. The R731/W5UE is a premium notebook offering the buyer the highest quality, but as ever this sort of quality comes at a price. The R731/W5UE is a nice looking piece of kit and will work for professionals, those in education and of course gamers too as it offers the high end specs expected by these buyers.
HP have brought out a new version on the Mini 110 and Mini 210, it is the Mini 1104 and has been developed with business and education users in mind, it is slightly more expensive than its close relations, but it does come with a whole host of premium features such as the Trusted Platform Module 1.2 embedded security chip.
Sometimes we forget that there’s a whole lot of technology behind our favorite social media sites. Sometimes it’s a platform, sometimes it’s an app, sometimes it’s software. But looking at the biggest events in social in 2011, it became clear that social media, and the technology that powers it, has an amazing ability to help [...]
This is the latest desk top replacement from Eurocom, they call it the Leopard 2.0 and it offers a wide range of options and upgrades that can take the final price sky high if the buyer is not careful. However, what we are looking at here is a laptop that is at the starting point [...]
Fusion Garage has announced the Grid-10, a 10 inch Android tablet that promises a unique user interface and predictive intelligence technology. Fusion Garage will be hoping this tablet does better than their debut offering in 2009, which was generally considered to be a flop. The Grid-10 features a gesture based user interface, with the only [...]
The last few days before Christmas can be among the most insane of the year. Just try going near a mall today. I dare you. And Saturday? Did you know that the Saturday before Christmas long ago overtook the day after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year? When that day is also [...]
Google Chrome is apparently the fastest browser in the world. At least this is what the results of a recent test, that measured the loading speed of websites, are showing. The test measured load times on broadband connections and it was undertaken from the perspective of regular users. No less than 1.86 billion individual measurements [...]
New York startup Booktrack have some big plans for the future of eBooks, with an iOS app to add ambient noise, sound effects, and music to eBooks titles. The audio is synchronised to the content of a book, relevant to the setting and story line, and available in three distinct layers. Booktrack are claiming that [...]
A new type of Internet connected television is coming out soon, with built in software and hardware to enable feedback between users, TV content, and the Internet. In a very real way, this TV will be able to watch you, with websites able to instantly adapt to TV broadcasts and online ads able to respond [...]
It’s hard to go to any tech event these days without seeing dozens of people swiping a finger across a tablet screen, playing Angry Birds in glorious HD or live-tweeting on what’s basically a really large smartphone (minus the phone). But are tablets really taking over? Will they replace the laptop as the mobile computer [...]
