Stop what you’re doing! Unless you’re reading this, that is. In which case, as you were. Anyway, as ever, we’re here with your lunchtime lowdown roundup of all the headlines from this morning. Read on and fill up!
June, 2011
Samsung’s Chromebook is hitting UK shores this week, but how does it work? What else will be available that uses Chrome? And what about the data?
All is revealed after the break. Don’t buy a Chromebook until you’ve read it!
In the waiting period before a new iPhone emerges, there are always rumours that take hold and spread through the jungle drums of the Apple blogs. The one making most noise right now is a old favourite: the notion that Apple will two new devices next.
For a long time, the talk was around a fully-fledged iPhone and an iPhone Nano. Now the names in vogue are the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S. But despite being based on analysts’ speculation, it’s starting to look ever more likely that Apple will finally turn the iPhone into a family of products. Here’s why it makes sense…
The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is now on sale in the UK, but it may soon be joined by a cheaper Chrome OS option: the Acer AC700 Chromebook. Unveiled today for the US market, this browser based machine offers similar functionality for a lower price tag – seldom a bad thing.
Mac gamers rejoice! Well, maybe not rejoice, but certainly take heed: Duke Nukem Forever is headed to the Mac in August. Aspyr Media has announced that it’s been hard at work on the Mac port of the 2K games title. It says: “We think Mac gamers will love taking a bite of Duke’s special pain cake.”
Pain cake is an apt description as our Duke Nukem Forever review makes clear. If you’re not put off by the negative responses to Duke’s long-delayed return, you can pre-order Duke Nukem Forever for Mac now for £27. The price will go up to £30 when the game is released.
Out August | £27 (pre-order) | Game Agent
With Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the horizon, speculation about the Google Nexus S successor is rife. Previously we’d heard chatter that a Motorola Nexus 4G was in the works but now the dial of the rumorometer seems to have swung in Samsung’s direction once again.
A new report claims the next Nexus will be dubbed the Google Nexus Prime and is being built by Samsung just like the Google Nexus S before it but there could be a feast of cool new phones on the way…
Despite making his abject disgust for social media and all its evils well known in an video promoting the second series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (which you can see after the break), plenty of Stewart Lee fans were fooled by a imposter on Twitter who popped up yesterday.
The @stewlee account has now been deactivated but only after Stewart Lee himself blasted the faker in a message on his website. Read on for Lee’s riposte but be warned, it contains some pretty choice language…
The Sony Vaio Z will hit the UK next month packing a Intel Core i7 processor, a 256GB SSD drive, 8GB and a 13.1in 1600×900 resolution screen. But the most intriguing inclusion in its specs list is a Light Peak port.
Light Peak is the same super-speedy Intel data transmission standard used by Apple in its Thunderbolt connector. However, Sony has taken a rather different approach than the one used for the new MacBook Pro. Jump through for all the details…