Computers
Peru’s equipping of more than 800,000 public schoolchildren in this rugged Andean nation with low-cost laptops ranks among the world’s most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years in, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the more than $200 million that Peru’s government spent.
Google is launching versions of its Chrome browser and Google Drive app for iPhones and iPads. The company also announced offline editing for Google Docs.
When I witness many vendors’ excitement around notebooks, I’m sensing they’re investing in the past, not in the future. Rarely am I struck with such a feeling, but that’s exactly the feeling I’ve been having lately.
Want a list of the apps most depressing to look at on Apple’s new Retina MacBook Pro? We’ve got you covered!
When Microsoft unveils products, it never, ever tells you all you might want to know about them all at once.
It turns out the MacBook Pro with Retina display costs significantly less than the non-Retina Pro if you build them out with the same specs. So why wouldn’t you just buy a Retina model?
It’s official: The United States is home to the world’s fastest supercomputer. But what exactly are supercomputers and why should we care about them?
A couple years ago, 11-inch laptop gaming was all the rage — but with Dell pulling its Alienware ultraportable, does Origin PC’s new Ivy Bridge-based EON11-S get the job done?
Its not every day that we get to watch a company that helped make personal computing a reality reinvent itself. Yet that is exactly what we are watching as Microsoft inches closer to one of its biggest operating system launches to date.
Why buy a laptop that runs nothing but a web browser, when you could buy a laptop that runs everything? That’s the question that comes up in pretty much every debate about Chromebooks — a series of stripped-down laptops that are merely vessels for Google’s Chrome web browser.
With its new line of Ultrabooks, notebooks and all-in-one desktops, Vizio is hoping to do for the PC market what it’s done for the HDTV market.
