The Green Electronics Council plans to expand its EPEAT environmental rating system later this year to include smartphones, the council said Tuesday. The move could push phone makers to change the way they manufacture, package or ...
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Best Buy has discounted some MacBook Pro laptops by as much as $200, and offered college students another $100 off in a promotion that may hint at impending refreshes of Apple's signature notebook. The U.S. retailer's sale features ...
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The latest generation of Intel's lineup of Core processors, known as fourth-generation (or Haswell), is performing as expected, with our first batch of tests turning up laptops with notably long battery life and generally excellent ...
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The Visa credit card outfit has certainly got the retail scene abuzz with news it will launch a "digital wallet" in Australia by Christmas. The e-wallet, dubbed V.me, will henceforth store all your cards in digital form, probably on your ...
TWELVE hours, 15 minutes. That's the video playback time the new MacBook Air delivered in our tests - conducted at 75 per cent screen brightness on a 13-inch model. Last week, we pitted the 2013 MacBook Air against its predecessor, the ...
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Apple and Samsung have both released new laptops that utilize the power management capability of Intel's latest chip -- and to great result. But these are top-of-the-food-chain systems -- sleek and thin, with power-efficient SSDs and a ...
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Best Buy has recalled about 5,100 replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, after 13 reports that the battery caught fire, a U.S. consumer safety agency said. The ATG lithium-ion batteries can catch fire while charging, the ...
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In the new 13.3-inch Toshiba Kirabook ($1,600), Windows users finally have a laptop that comes close to and even bests the Apple MacBook Air in some ways, though it falls short in others. The Kirabook was an excellent performer, with a ...
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The new OS X Mavericks will run on the same set of Mac desktops and notebooks able to handle the current OS X Mountain Lion, but iOS 7 dropped support for iPhone 3GS, the 2009 smartphone supported by the current iOS 6. OS X 10.9, aka ...
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If Apple has anything to say about it, the future of the notebook will be long and healthy. And it will be exemplified in the new versions of the MacBook Air, announced during Apple's?WWDC 2013?keynote, and?available immediately.? Based ...
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All-day battery life is coming to the MacBook Air, Apple announced today during its World Wide Developers Conference. The new laptops use the latest processors from Intel, the fourth-generation Core processor known as Haswell ULT, and one ...
Apple was first to use Intel's Thunderbolt I/O interface on laptops. The company also chose to create its own version of a hybrid drive for Macs rather than use one of several all-in-one offerings available from third party vendors. So ...
Apple has doubled down on getting faster Wi-Fi by including support for the emerging 802.11ac (also called 5G Wi-Fi) standard in its new AirPort Extreme base station, Time Capsule and MacBook Air laptops, all unveiled at its Worldwide ...
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Microsoft and Apple last week kicked off promotions that may signal inventory clearing as they prepare their next generations of hardware. On Friday, Microsoft debuted a deal that hands a free keyboard-cover to buyers of its Surface RT ...
Apple's lowest-priced MacBook Air was out of stock on Amazon.com as of Friday, hinting that rumors of a refresh in two weeks are on target. The 11.6-in. MacBook Air with 64GB of storage space -- Apple's least expensive laptop -- was ...
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