Until we can activate our computers by simply addressing them (think more “Scotty to the Enterprise computer” than “Samuel L Jackson to Siri”), we’ll just have to rely on MIT Media Lab’s new floating-point system to talk to the machines.
Despite a couple of years of competition, Android tablets haven’t made the kind of impact into iPad sales and adoption that their manufacturers would have hoped. This year will see the re-emergence of Windows tablets. Can they topple Apple at the tablet game?
Brightness ratings and contrast ratio make for lovely tech spec reading when you’re shopping for a new device. But neither tells you how usable a display will actually be in everyday ambient light situations. So DisplayMate put some of the more popular options to the test.
You know what the slowest part of your computer is, the one that really holds you back? You. Our friends at Laptop Mag are here to teach you how to overclock yourself, including how much time you’ll save — down to the second.
This year’s iPad has a very pretty retina display, but it came at a cost: a massive battery that in turn makes for a thicker tablet. Apparently, though, the original plan was to use a newer display technology that would have made the screen thinner and the battery lighter. So what happened?
While Sony has a track record for making beautifully slim laptops, so far it’s ignored Intel’s prescribed ultrabook gimmickry. That stops now with the newly announced Vaio T, but it’s a laptop that’s doomed before it even hits the shelf.
Heads up, people! The 2012 edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference — one of the company’s biggest yearly events — has been announced for June 11 to June 15 in San Francisco. Traditionally, big new stuff always appears at the WWDC, sometimes hardware, sometimes software.
During Apple’s call today to discuss its monster earnings last quarter, CEO Tim Cook was asked his opinion on Windows 8. He said all of the expected things about how the iPad has unlimited potential, but also weighed in on tablet-PC hybrid devices with this little bon mot.
Not to be outdone by Intel’s giant splash yesterday, AMD is trotting out its next-gen mobile GPU line. And while they still might be outdone, the Radeon HD 7900M series does look pretty damn terrific.
