notebooks
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Toshiba KiraBook: Is An Amazing Screen Enough To Make A Computer Great?
Toshiba is taking aim at the MacBook Air. We know this not because its new KiraBook ultraportable, with its 13-inch, 2560 x 1440 display, resembles a MacBook Air– it doesn’t, really — but because, over and over, Toshiba referenced ways it’s better than or on par with a MacBook Air, as reps explained how the…
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Taking Notes Will Feel A Lot More Biblical On Paper Made Of Stone
Recycling is great, but it would nice if trees didn’t have to be involved at all in paper production. More oxygen, more animal hangouts, good stuff. The Italian notebook maker Ogami agrees, so they’ve developed a line of paper products made out of rocks.
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Asus And Acer: The Netbook Is Dead
Netbooks, those tiny, underpowered computers that were once held up as the saviour of the laptop market, have long since fallen from favour. When Dell announced it was ending production, the end was nigh — and now the last remaining manufacturers, Asus and Acer, have confirmed that the netbook is officially dead.
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Short Battery Life Sinks First Windows 8 Notebooks
Confusing dual-mode operating system, no Start button, counter-intuitive swipe gestures? None of these things spells doom for Windows 8. What will kill Microsoft’s newest operating system is the abysmal battery life of the systems on which it’s supposed to perform the best.