Dell is getting ready to be the first big name PC maker (in the West) to release a stick-sized device that you can plug into a TV to turn it into an Android computer. It’s called Project Ophelia, and Dell first introduced the concept at CES in January. Now PC World reports that Project Ophelia should be available for purchase…
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Linux Mint is an easy-to-use operating system that’s based on Ubuntu Linux. It comes pre-loaded with support for Flash, Java, and a range of media codecs that you’d have to install yourself with Ubuntu. While Linux Mint supports a range of desktop environments, the default user interface also looks a lot more like the classic Windows desktop than Ubuntu’s Unity,…
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Google’s Native Client software lets developers write web apps that act more like native desktop apps. For instance, Quake, DOOM, and DOSBox have all been ported to run in the Chrome web browser using Native Client (NaCL). Now Google has released a tool called Portable Native Client (PNaCL) which takes things a step further by adding cross-platform support for Chrome…
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Sony is adding another device to its AOSP program. The company already offers Android Open Source Project code for a few of its latest smartphones. Now you can also get software based on Google’s Android source code for the Sony Xperia Z tablet. That makes it the first tablet which Sony is opening up to developers in this way. As…
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The Asus Q200E is a Windows 8 notebook with an 11.6 inch touchscreen display, an Intel Core i3 processor, a 500GB hard drive, and a low price. The laptop typically sells for around $400 and up, but today Rakuten is offering a refurbished model for $350. It has a Sandy Bridge processor instead of a newer Ivy Bridge chip, and…
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Dell plans to launch at least two new ultrabooks under its business-friendly Latitude line this year. That’s according to a leaked product roadmap which appears to show the company’s plan for Latitude laptops through the end of the year. The ultrabooks will reportedly be notebooks with 12.5 inch displays and branded as part of the Dell Latitude E700 series. Dell Latitude E7240…
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Ramos is updating its W30HD tablet with a new “pro” model sporting a faster processor. The Ramos W30HDPro features a 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, a Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core CPU, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. It’s available for pre-order from Geekbuying for $299.99. ChinaGrabber says it’s already in stock for $298. The tablet features 2GB…
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NVIDIA’s SHIELD handheld game console is a portable gaming system which looks like a 5 inch display tacked onto an Xbox-style controller. It’s powered by a Tegra 4 processor, runs Google Android, and has a 720p display. While NVIDIA had planned to open general pre-orders for the SHIELD next week, the company’s moved the date up by a few days,…
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Samsung recently unveiled the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. It’s due out by the end of the month. Now it looks like Samsung might have a slightly larger, slightly more powerful model in the works as well. SamMobile reports that a Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is…
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The Google I/O opening keynote came and went without the announcement of any new hardware (unless you count the Samsung Galaxy S4 with stock Android). But that doesn’t mean we won’t see some new devices from Google soon. A sharp-eyed reddit user noticed that the Nexus 7 tablet in a promo video from Google Hangouts had an unusual feature. Here…
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Laptops with 1080p displays are so last year. A handful of notebooks including the MacBook Pro with Retina, Google Chromebook Pixel and Toshiba Kirabook already have higher-than-full-HD screens. Now Sharp wants to step things up a notch with its new IGZO displays for notebooks. IGZO screens use less power than traditional LCD displays, but because of the technology used to…
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Most major PC makers may have left the netbook market for dead. But Chinese vendors have continued cranking out cheap mini-laptops with 10 inch or smaller displays. Some models run Windows, but many of the cheapest feature inexpensive ARM chips and run Android or Windows CE. But it looks like some slightly more powerful models could be on the way….
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Intel is expected to launch its Haswell platform soon, which means that we’ll start seeing ultrabooks, notebooks, and other devices with 4th-generation Intel Core family processors in the next few months. But if you don’t need bleeding edge hardware, there are some great deals on ultrabooks released in 2012. Here’s a roundup of some great deals on ultrabooks and other devices…
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The Asus Fonepad is a smartphone with a 7 inch screen. Or maybe it’s a 7 inch tablet which makes phone calls. Either way, when Asus introduced the Fonepad a few months ago, the company promised a device with a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2420 processor and 16GB of storage. Now there’s a new model available, featuring a faster 1.6…
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga computers are part notebook, part tablet. You can lift the lid and start typing away like you would on any other notebook — or you can push the screen back 360 degrees sot hat it’s back-to-back with the keyboard and use a Yoga like a tablet. The latest member of the Yoga family has an 11.6 inch…
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