Merely two days after I apply to test drive a Chrome OS notebook, one arrives in the mail! It was packaged inside a very happy box. The contents were minimal: One laptop, one battery, one charger, one single page instruction card and one business card from Intel. Challenge accepted. The exterior of the laptop has [...]
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Looking over Google’s Cr-48 Chrome OS laptop
December 10, 2010
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Customizing the HP Envy Quick Launch keys
June 13, 2010
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I bought an envy about a month ago and have been working through the usual new laptop quirks. There are plenty of hard-to-notice-until-bought pros and cons that I might pour over some time, but right now I’d just like to mention my findings with respect to the Envy Quick Launch keys that are located on [...]
Quite possibly the best time to buy a MacBook Pro?
April 14, 2010
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The fruit-themed computer manufacturer has finally made an effort to bring the MacBook Pro into the modern era. Boasting new Core i5 and i7 series processors and an updated (albeit last generation) graphics card, the new MacBook Pro sells at a curiously similar price to the MacBook Pro of last week. Take a look at [...]
Quite possibly the worst time to buy a MacBook Pro
February 8, 2010
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I’ve been looking for a new laptop since January, so far being generally unimpressed due to the slow adoption of the mobile i7 processors. I ended up with just a few, the best of which seems to be the HP Envy. Dell and Lenovo have contending i5 and i7-based systems out, but all the models [...]