Product development is often a delicate balancing act, especially when vendors are updating well-established devices like consumer and commercial laptops. Since it is all too easy to get things wrong, many laptop vendors simply let things lie and make incremental
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Successful commercial products don’t exist in a vacuum. The best ones incorporate the latest technologies and materials offerings, and either mirror or push the boundaries of contemporary design aesthetics. However, successfully evolving those products is more hit and miss. Product
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I’ve got four very different laptops, all current looking at me this week begging to be used. I have the Asus NovaGo and the Lenovo Miix 630 Always-Connected-PCs, the Microsoft Surface Book, and the Dell Latitude 7390. Oh, and I
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It’s no mystery that playing games on our favorite devices is by far one of the most-loved pastime activities for computer enthusiasts nowadays—right after sci-fi conventions and possibly comic books. And no matter if you like to go with sports,
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My work provides regular opportunities to test notebook PCs and to consider how vendors are faring in terms of competitiveness, creativity and design. Over the past half-decade, a strategic shift that began with Dell’s 2012 introduction of the XPS 13
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Specs Republic of Gamers—or ROG—machines are designed with gaming in mind as the name implies. To that end this laptop has impressive hardware specs. In fact, the specs of the Asus ROG G501 laptop rival or exceed many desktop gaming
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Toshiba will reportedly have a dedicated Cortana key on the keyboards of its new series of laptops. The news was confirmed by Jeff Barney, the general manager and vice president in charge of Toshiba America’s PC business. Microsoft Cortana is
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Microsoft unveiled the much more affordable Surface 3 this week—putting the Windows tablet within reach of a much wider market. That isn’t the only economical computing device coming from Microsoft this week, though. According to a report from Digitimes Research,
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Google launched a new promotion to boost Chromebook sales for the holiday season–1TB of free Google Drive cloud storage for two years. The thing is most people won’t come close to using 1TB of cloud storage, and those that do
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