Choice, you say? Acer’s newest laptop duo is offering that in spades. At a gala this morning in New York City, the company rolled out quite the arrangement of new kit — not the least of which was a revamped Aspire V5 and Aspire V7. The two lines …
While AMD announced its new Temash APU (alongside others) at this year’s CES, the only device we’ve seen sporting it was an intriguing reference hybrid that made the rounds at the show. Now, details of an Acer Aspire V5 notebook have emerged, indi…
Take a stroll through the laptop section at Best Buy recently? If you have, you know Toshiba’s got a firm stronghold on the cheapie notebook market. The thing is, $400 systems don’t exactly offer high margins — a problem when people aren’t buying th…
Cash-strapped businesses and schools are getting some love from Dell today, thanks to its freshly unveiled Latitude 3330 laptop. Shipping with an entry-level price of $419, this modest machine packs an Intel Core i5 3337U processor, a 13.3-inch 1,366…
It’s not a hybrid like the ATIV Smart PC, it doesn’t run RT like the ATIV Tab or Windows Phone like the ATIV S, and yet the laptop above is apparently destined to become part of the family. The ATIV Book 6 hasn’t been formally announced, but an accid…
Code in the latest 10.8.4 beta version of Mountain Lion discovered by a 9to5 Mac tipster shows OS X support for 802.11ac WiFi, meaning next-gen Macs might contain the tech. Also dubbed 5G, 802.11ac brings speeds as high as 1.3Gbps thanks to beamformi…
The often hit-or-miss Digitimes is reporting that Google could be building a new laptop, but don’t expect it to be part of the Chrome lineup. The new notebook PC could have developed under direct influence of Sundar Pichai, the man who recently took over for Andy Rubin as Google’s Android chief. So what type of PC can [...]
Recognizing games “as an important element in every culture around the globe,” the Boy Scouts of America today announced plans to offer a merit badge in game design. The youth organization has spent two years working with volunteers i…
Cellphone data searches are a contentious topic: there’s no clear overall consensus on how much information police can get from a phone before needing a warrant, or how deep a search should be able to go. When we carry a porta…
Breaking news: the PC industry isn’t doing very well. Unnamed sources have told Digitimes that HP (HPQ) and Lenovo (0992), which happen to be the PC industry’s two largest vendors, “are expected to see their notebook shipments drop about 20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2013, higher than an average 10% decline anticipated for the industry.” Overall, Digitimes‘ sources say that HP will ship around 6.5 million notebooks on the quarter, a significant drop from the 8 million notebooks shipped in the previous quarter, while Lenovo will see its shipments fall to around 5.2 million units this quarter from over 6.5 million in the previous quarter. But all is not doom and gloom for the industry this year: Digitimes‘ sources also said that “demand
