Apple gives Europeans Black Friday discounts, US settles for gift cards

If you’ve been mulling the latest Apple gizmo but wince at the prices, today could be the day to act. That’s because Cupertino’s offering UK discounts of up to £81 on the latest and greatest iMac or MacBook models and £31 off of the iPad Air. Other iPad models are discounted too, and you can […]

Apple’s iPhone 5s remains ‘by far the top selling smartphone’

Apple continues to dominate smartphone sales with their flagship iPhone 5s and mid-range iPhone 5c as the handsets took two of the top three sales slots at every major U.S. wireless carrier for the third month in a row. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company remained America’s top smartphone vendor in November on the back of ‘strong’ […]

New Alienware 14, Alienware 17 & Alienware 18 Laptops

Alienware, the pioneer in specialty high-performance PC gaming systems, announced its latest and most powerful gaming laptops, the Alienware 14, Alienware 17 and Alienware 18. The laptops feature all new performance graphics, processors (Intel 4th Generation Core Processors) and components engineered for extreme performance. They also introduce a new range of Alienware laptop bags named […]

The inside story of Lenovo’s ThinkPad redesign

“When you talk to end users about ports, they’ll tell you how much they need them. They’ll talk about the vast number of USB devices that they have. It’s easy to hear that and determine that you need five or more ports based on what these people report. When you watch these people work, however, […]

NVIDIA reveals Volta next-gen GPU platform

We’re here at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, and company CEO Jen Hsun-Huang has just revealed the next step in its GPU roadmap. Called Volta, it’s scheduled to arrive after Maxwell, and will advance GPU technology with a ridiculous amount of memory bandwidth. Volta GPUs will have access to up to 1TB per […]

Acer now selling C7 Chromebook with more battery life and memory for $280

When we got our hands on Acer’s initial C7 Chromebook, our chief gripe was its frankly disappointing 4-hour battery life. We now know that Acer had its ear to the ground after launch. It’s rolling out a new trim level, the C710-2055, that mends the short runtime and beyond. The new edition carries a 6-cell […]

Microsoft is singing the right tune with some wrong notes

In an episode of Elementary, a TV reinvention of Sherlock Holmes, there is an audacious product placement for the Microsoft Surface tablet. Holmes, a techno-adept detective working in New York, whips out a Surface to do some quick research. He snaps on the keyboard with the same hearty click made famous in Microsoft commercials. Then […]

Toshiba Dynabook SS RX1 the first notebook with 128GB SSD

Not so long after the launch of the Toshiba 64GB SSD now comes the all new Dynabook SS RX1 with nothing less than 120GB SSD this impressive baby has a 12.1 inch display along with internal KDDI EV-D0 data module, 1.2Ghz Core 2 Duo U7600, 2GB memory Intel 945GMS Express graphics, a 1,280 x 800 […]