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Confirmed: The MacBook is dead

July 20, 2011 2:20 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: Apple, Laptop, MacBook

UPDATE: Apple will continue to sell the MacBook to educational institutions through resellers, it appears, but otherwise, it’s RIP.

BREAKING: The Apple is store is flush with new models right now, including a new MacBook Air and a Mac Mini. But look a bit closer, and you’ll see something iconic is missing: the original, plastic, white MacBook.

We’ve just confirmed with Apple that the MacBook line which started it all has now been discontinued. No reason was supplied but it’s not hard to see why it makes business sense: Apple already sells a similarly sized 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (both for higher pricetags), while providing a budget OS X option with the Mac Mini.

So here’s to you, original MacBook. We had some times together.

And the Google Chromebook winners are…

July 18, 2011 12:10 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Competitions Tags: chromebook, Google, Laptop

Last month, we gave you the chance to win a Google Chromebook in partnership with the search giant, by setting you a seriously hard brain teaser. Want to know if you solved it correctly – and in time? The winners are now online at Google’s competition page, so check it out and see.

Didn’t win this time? Not to worry: there’s still time to enter Electricpig’s Man Cave of the year awards. Click here to enter.

Toshiba Qosmio F750 3D: world’s first glasses-free 3D laptop, but is it already doomed?

July 5, 2011 10:51 am by Joe Svetlik

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: 3D, glasses free, Laptop, qosmio f750, Toshiba

Toshiba’s just outed the world’s first glasses-free 3D laptop, the Qosmio F750 3D. The 15.6-incher uses the same tech as the company’s glasses-free 3D, the REGZA GL1, so a lenticular screen sends images with different perspectives to each eye, which your brain reads as a 3D image.

All very impressive, but we’ve got some reservations. Read on to see why we’re not quite reaching for the popcorn just yet.

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Google Nexus Prime, Acer Chromebook and Duke Nukem hits up the Mac: Lunchtime Lowdown

June 28, 2011 12:27 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: Acer, Android, chrome os, chromebook, Duke Nukem Forever, Laptop, lunchtime lowdown, Sony, Vaio Z

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!

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Acer AC700 Chromebook does Chrome OS on a budget

June 28, 2011 11:27 am by Ben Sillis

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: ac700, Acer, chrome os, chromebook, Laptop

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.

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Asus planning the biggest Android laptop ever?

June 23, 2011 11:06 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: Android, Asus, kal-el, Laptop, NVIDIA

We’ve seen a smattering of Android laptops in the past (notably the tiddly Toshiba AC100) but the trend for Android tablets and the promise of Chromebooks has knocked them off the agenda. It seems Asus is out to change our minds. The Taiwanese tech giant is reportedly hard at work on a 13in Android laptop and plans to use the quadcore NVIDIA Kal-El processor.

That chip is on course for an August release date which suggests if we do see a new Asus Android laptop it’ll arrive around then too. Since we’re talking about the company that brought us the Asus EeePad Transformer, nothing would surprise us.

Out TBC | £TBC | Asus (via Engadget)

Man steals MacBook Pro, uses it naked, tracked down by secret webcam app

June 1, 2011 12:45 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: Apple, hidden, Laptop, MacBook Pro

You’ve got to love the range of tracking apps available on phones and laptops today. After San Francisco based Joshua Kaufman had his MacBook Pro stolen from his flat, he used one such service, Hidden, to track its location and even take photos of the alleged thief using it in his own home – which he then published on the hilariously named Tumblr blog This Guy Has My MacBook.

In the last few hours, the local police finally managed to use the evidence he’d acquired to hunt him down, arrest him and seize the MacBook, so it’s WIN for Joshua Kaufman and WIN for the internet.

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Samsung Series 9 laptop review: Curvaceous, but no MacBook Air

May 31, 2011 2:59 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: Laptop, Samsung, Series 9

The Samsung Series 9 laptop turned heads at CES back in January. Here was an ultra portable that for the first time might match the second generation MacBook Air for looks, and even beat it in power. Has it lived up to those claims? Find out here in our full Samsung Series 9 laptop review.

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