Introduction and design The Transformer Book T100 Chi is one of several new Windows 8.1-powered convertibles by Asus. Outed at CES 2015 alongside the company’s flagship 12.5-inch T300 Chi and 8.9-inch T90 Chi, the 10.1-inch T100 Chi aims for the sweet spot between portability and performance. Its predecessor, the Transformer Book T100, made an impression back in 2013 for being one of the first cheap Windows convertibles that could handle
Best laptops for students Even for those who feel at home with their nose in a textbook, the end of summer break (or Winter recess) is a big bummer. But as much as it’s a return to school and schedules, it’s an opportunity. This is a fine excuse to invest in some fresh tech to make the coming academia-addled year a little more bearable. If you’re still reliant on a
Best Chromebooks Updated: Google’s Pixel has won a spot in our best Chromebooks list as one of the most powerful and fastest machines around. We’ve also added the revamped Dell Chromebook 11 to the list as well. Chromebooks are budget laptops that are both odd and brilliant, low-impact and potent. Running Google’s Chrome OS rather than Windows, they focus on what computing has been all about since the late ’90s,
Best 2-in-1 laptops Microsoft’s Windows 8 didn’t just shake up the company’s entire software empire, but the mobile computing industry as well. Given the dualistic nature of the new Windows, laptop and tablet makers responded in kind with devices commonly known as 2-in-1 laptops, or hybrid laptops. These are devices that are able to serve as both a laptop and a tablet, either in a detachable design that sees the
Microsoft is delivering an update to the way developers handle apps destined for Windows Phone, Windows 8.1 and eventually Windows 10. The new Developer Dashboard will be unveiled at Build 2015 later on this week and the new service will eventually allow developers to submit and manage apps across Windows devices in one location, according to Microsoft News. Microsoft uploaded the new dashboard to new a subdomain of windows.com that
Gaming laptops we recommend Updated: The Alienware 17, an incredible gaming laptop-desktop hybrid powerhouse has joined the ranks of our 10 best gaming laptops You don’t even need to tell us what happened when you told your friends that you want to buy a gaming laptop. Their inner elitist got the best of them, and bashed you for not just outright building a gaming PC. But we get you. Building
The birth of Apple’s superphone It was January 2007 when Steve Jobs took to the stage of the Moscone Center in San Francisco to announce the arrival of the iPhone, which went on sale worldwide later that year. If you find it difficult to remember that far back, Leona Lewis was number one in the UK with A Moment Like This and people were flocking to the cinema to get
Home cinema projector Home entertainment always looks better when it’s been super-sized. Whether you want to splash Blu-ray movies across a large white wall, magnify your gaming experience, or want to throw photographs or slides from a mobile device onto a 100-inch plus screen, a home cinema projector should be your first choice of display. To help bring the big-screen home we’ve tested ten top models of home cinema projector.
Rapper, mogul, saviour of the music industry and business, man Jay Z has ‘taken to’ Twitter to defend Tidal against the “many big companies that are spending millions on a smear campaign” to take the streaming service down. After someone noticed last week that Tidal had dropped out of the top 700 iOS apps, Beyonce’s husband explained and pleaded with fans to give the service a chance using the relevant
(Reuters) – Google Inc said it would launch an experimental portal that allows interested patent holders to sell their patents to the company. Patent holders can tell Google about the patents they’re willing to sell and the expected price through the portal, the company said on its blog. Google said it will let the submitters know of its interest in buying their patents by June 26 and expects to pay
