When Should You Buy Your Next Gadget? 
Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You 
Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time 
Top 10 Things You Can Do With Old Gadgets 
The Next-Generation Macbook Pro 2012: What To Expect 
All The Latest Tech Gear You Need To Know About 
PC laptops can be crazy cheap, but there are lots of good reasons to spend a little more. Our friends at Laptop Magazine explain that you’ll get a big boost in performance if you’re willing to splurge on better hardware.
Most laptops can barely handle a late-night YouTube session without reaching sperm-scorching temperatures. So if you dabble in over-clocking, you’ll be frying eggs in no time. That is unless you’ve got Asetek’s new liquid-cooling system for laptops.
Losing a computer containing unencrypted ISS codes earned NASA a stern talking-to from a House subcommittee but apparently didn’t change many attitudes. A NASA staffer in Kansas City just lost another at the start of March. There were no Space Station codes on-board, luckily, just the personal information of every NASA employee in Kansas City.
Loss leaders — products sold without a profit to generate interest — sometimes work. Acer tried it with its recent S3 ultrabook, but it isn’t content with that; it has it sights set on cutting prices even further.
There’s something fundamentally broken in the world of PC laptops: Machines designed nearly four years ago still provide the basic model for how to build one correctly today. The Razer Blade is, in some ways, one of the best Windows laptops I’ve used in a long time. But I can’t decide if it’s merely ironic or outright depressing that a PC designed to reinvigorate PCs is ultimately most interesting because it steals something from Apple that most PC makers only wish they could grasp:
Have no doubt about this: Apple is revamping their MacBook Pro line in 2012 in a radical way — not merely evolutionary. We know this not because of the usual rumours , but because there is no way this will not happen.
I thought I’d given up being impressed by laptop specs. But then the Origin EON17-Z happened. You could probably run entire robot armies using this thing.
Looking for the best bang for your PC buck? Our friends at Laptop Magazine and Laptop Mag — who oversee 140+ notebook and netbook reviews every year — have rounded up the top performers under $800.
So this happened. It’s a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasn’t happy. You can skip ahead to seven minutes for the big reveal.
