Laptops & Tablets

We check out the latest and greatest laptops, ultrabooks, netbooks and tablets. From the desktop replacement through to those as light as ‘Air’

Wacom’s wireless interactive Bamboo pen tablets

Wacom’s wireless interactive Bamboo pen tablets

With people posting the view from their office window, their cat asleep on their pillow, or the plate of food they consumed for breakfast, sharing digital images with others has almost become a national obsession. Given this rapid rise in posting to the world our day’s proceedings, no matter how…

Samsung and 14 Bike co team up to make tablet bike holder

Samsung and 14 Bike co team up to make tablet bike holder

If you live in a built up urban area with a proliferation of cool kids it’s pretty hard not notice the sea of cool kids on single speed bicycles – and the even cooler kids on fixed gear bicycles. And it’s also pretty hard not to notice all the cool…

Amazon unveils Kindle Fire and Touch: Threatens Android cousins more than iPad 2

Amazon unveils Kindle Fire and Touch: Threatens Android cousins more than iPad 2

The worst kept secret since civil servants decided to leave al-Qaeda dossiers on trains, Amazon finally ended the will-they-won’t-they speculation over its entry into the tablet game. The 7 inch Kindle Fire is full-colour dual core tablet running a customised version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Unlike the vast majority of…

STM Switch and Stash tablet bags

STM Switch and Stash tablet bags

STM are an Australian bag manufacturing company that we have come to know and love over the years – their range of iPad and Laptop bags have been mostly excellent and, whilst they do produce some standard designs, they are also keen to experiment with both form and function, which…

The Toshiba AT200. A honeycomb tablet so thin it’s almost see-through.

The Toshiba AT200. A honeycomb tablet so thin it’s almost see-through.

The iPad 2 is facing some serious competition these days. As the consumer market warms up to the potential of tablet media, there is certainly no shortage of options for us to choose from. And we can certainly thank Android and Apple for that. That said, there is little operationally,…

Henge Docks for MacBooks review

Henge Docks for MacBooks review

Making a MacBook dock is a difficult task – how do you complement Apple’s design perfection without adding a premium price? Henge Docks thinks it has the answer with a new range of 13″, 15″ and 17″ MacBook compatible accessories. If you have an Apple machine from late 2008 (when…

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7: Tablets for titchy palms

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7: Tablets for titchy palms

It seemed everyone thought a lot of the original Galaxy Tablet when it first came out; there were even (shush) whispers that it might have been a device to at least offer some faint resistance to the iPad World Takeover. Unfortunately it was blighted by the fact it only ran…

Toshiba unveils world’s lightest laptop; Z830 series Ultrabook

Toshiba unveils world’s lightest laptop; Z830 series Ultrabook

In a bid to stem the current surge in tablet popularity, Toshiba has launched a new series of ultra compact lightweight computers that have the portability of a tablet but the processing power of a laptop. Using Intel’s second generation Intel® core processor for Ultrabook and boasting up to six…

Samsung Slate PC Series-7: Crazy name, impressive spec

Samsung Slate PC Series-7: Crazy name, impressive spec

While the champions of iOS and Android battle it out in the tablet-space this autumn, one manufacture has taken up the fight for a more ancient cause – a Windows-based tablet. Samsung’s plan is to create ultimate office tablet, using typical office software – Windows 7 and Microsoft Office. Enter…

Dell Inspiron 14x: The perfect companion for the lecture theatre?

Dell Inspiron 14x: The perfect companion for the lecture theatre?

When I was at college and university all note taking was achieved religiously with a pen and piece of paper. Although now, apparently, those antiquated days of scribbling a lecturer’s words in a notebook – a non-technological one that is – have been replaced by fervently tying those all-important words…

The Acer Aspire S3 – Move over Notebooks, the Ultrabook generation has arrived!

The Acer Aspire S3 – Move over Notebooks, the Ultrabook generation has arrived!

What do you get if you combine the design of a notebook with the mobility of a Smartphone? Acer’s first Ultrabook, the Aspire S3 of course. With the benefit of hindsight we should have seen this one coming – a manoeuvre that conveniently blends the unique advantages of notebooks, tablet…

LoJack: A laptop guard dog

LoJack: A laptop guard dog

Losing a laptop isn’t just a financial burden – it can also leave your personal info available to a whole host of hacks. While the embarrassment of thieves seeing your sex-tapes is pretty bad, losing bank details, private log-in information and other important data can be life-changing. Luckily, Absolute Software…