The Razer Blade gaming laptop, which was unveiled in a slightly different form as the Switchblade, is one of those mad concepts that you look at with awe, but secretly know it’s never going to get made. Except it is. Razer’s confirmed that it’s going to open up pre-orders for the gamer’s dream device imminently. Read more
Intel’s Ultrabook machines, thin, powerful laptops that echo the MacBook Air, haven’t taken the world by storm so far. But what if your next model didn’t just run Windows, but Android Ice Cream Sandwich? With today’s latest Google release, you might be able to do just that.
Ultrabooks, a new category of super thin, but not underpowered laptops that’s being pushed through by Intel, have been all the rage this week at IFA 2011. Laptop manufacturers are falling over themselves to show off stupidly skinny rivals to the quite frankly peerless third-gen MacBook Air, and we’ve got them all right here for you in our guide.
The white plastic MacBook didn’t die. Turns out it was just an ugly duckling, then one day it lost its bum fluff and woke up with a beautiful plumage of unibody aluminium, a better processor, and a waif like profile. In other words, as the new MacBook Air.
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.
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.
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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.
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!
