The HP Envy 14 is a powerful, attractive laptop, earning 4.5 out of 5 stars in our review. Its aluminum body gives the system a sturdy feel and clean lines. When we tested the Intel Core i3 version, we found its performance was great for a mid-size all-purpose system--and it must be even better with...
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Google's Web-based Chromebooks can now access Windows desktops and applications through Citrix's virtualization technology, thanks to a new app released this week.
The Citrix Receiver Tech Preview for Chrome OS, available on the Chrome Web Store, is a free client app for businesses that use Citrix...
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Apple's ad welcoming IBM to the market upon introduction of the IBM PC. On August 12, 1981, IBM announced its first PC. That makes today the thirtieth anniversary of the platform that’s sometimes been called the PC clone, IBM PC compatible, or Wintel…but is most often simply called the PC. We start...
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Apple is once again proving just how powerfully influential it is in IT. By effectively cornering the market on CNC (computer numerical control) lathes, the company is forcing its already reeling competitors to move from metal to fiberglass chassis on their Intel UltraBooks.
The CNC lathes in ques...
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Last year, Toshiba showed me an experimental laptop that could do 3D without special glasses -- and even do 3D on one part of the screen while another part was in standard 2D. Back them, it was just a technology demo. But the company has announced the Qosmio F755 3D, a model based on the tech I ...
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LG Electronics has introduced a laptop with a screen that it says allows multiple people to watch from wide angles without any loss in image quality.
The model, the P220, has a 12.5-inch widescreen IPS (In-Plane Switching) display, which allows users to watch from an angle of 178 degrees. A user c...
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Can a domain name shed light on a forthcoming Apple product? Ehhh, probably not. Meanwhile, Acer thinks it has the 411 on what consumers really want and Apple files suit against knockoff retail stores closer to home. The remainders for Friday, August 5, 2011 have a license to thrill.
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Ant farms, Pac-Man, the Pet Rock...and now the iPad and MacBook Air?
Acer founder Stan Shih has reportedly called the consumer craze for tablets and ultrabooks (super-slim laptops popularized by Apple's svelte MacBook Air) merely short-term fads, according to Taiwanese trade publication DigiTim...
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The original MacBook Air was a spectacular piece of engineering -- a laptop form factor that simply hadn't been seen before. Despite its anemic CPU and the slow PATA 1.8-inch hard drive, I quickly took to using the MacBook Air as my primary laptop. When the next iteration appeared, with a significan...
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Do you have an aging laptop that you want to save from the recycling center? With a few software and hardware upgrades, you could bring that old notebook back to life and possibly avoid having to plunk down cash for a new laptop or a secondary device such as an Apple iPad or an Android tablet.
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