Jan 15, 2018 | Android, Apple, Chrome, Chromebook, computers, Dell, Google, hardware, HP, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Stretch your imagination. Imagine that you pull your laptop out and pop the lid open and start using it right away. There’s no delay, no swirling circle – it’s just on, bang, every time. You put your finger on the fingerprint reader and you’re logged in immediately....
May 8, 2017 | Chrome, Chromebook, computers, Dell, Google, HP, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, Surface, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Next month Microsoft will begin selling Surface Laptops, elegant and sexy, Microsoft’s first Surface devices with a traditional clamshell design. You’ll be tempted to buy one, but in the end you won’t. Almost no one will buy them. Microsoft will sell some Surface...
Jan 16, 2017 | Apple, computers, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, Surface
Computer manufacturers are letting us down. Computers are being sold with specs that appear to be perfectly fine, but buried in the small print is a detail that means they are deliberately hobbled. They will disappoint you from the first day they’re turned on. Beware...
Jan 12, 2017 | computers, Dell, HP, laptops, Lenovo, shopping
Previously: This Is The Year Of Premium Business Laptops – what to look for in a new laptop These are some of the best looking new and upgraded laptops shown off at CES last week. They will be coming on the market during the first six months of 2017. I’m not...
Oct 26, 2016 | computers, Dell, HP, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, tablet
The new HP Spectre X360 joins the small group of the best business laptops. A business-quality laptop costs $1,000-$1,200. The best laptops in that price range are not gold-plated; they’re not over-powered; they don’t have unnecessary extra features. Instead, they’re...
Sep 25, 2016 | computers, Dell, hardware, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping
The gently curved triangular cylinder in the above picture looks like a particularly attractive speaker. Wrapped in thick-threaded fabric, a lid that looks like it’s made for distributing sound evenly – obviously it must be a subwoofer or all-in-one speaker. And in a...
