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• Vanishing into thin [MacBook] Air: Shortages signal WWDC refresh

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 May, 2013 16:48

  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.

• Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2013 04:08

  Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-like gaming and wireless displays to laptops with Windows 8 and its successor, Windows Blue.

• HP $399 touchscreen laptop breaks price barrier

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2013 04:08

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at US$399.

• Touchscreen notebooks snag 10 per cent of the laptop market, report claims

  By Ian Paul | 21 May, 2013 20:40

  Windows 8 was rebuilt from the ground up with a finger-friendly focus. That proved to be a problem during the operating system's early days. In the months immediately after launch, touchscreen Windows devices cost an arm and a leg, and that's if you could even find one; during the 2012 holiday season shoppers were hard-pressed to find a touch-based laptop.

• HGST releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 May, 2013 10:15

  HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.

• Samsung readies world's most pixel-packed laptop display

  By Jared Newman | 20 May, 2013 20:00

  Retina who? Not to be outdone on the display front, Samsung is showing off a 13.3-inch LCD notebook panel with a whopping 3200-by-1800 resolution screen.

• Tablet v PC - Asus straddles the fuzzy divide

  By Stephen Bell | 14 May, 2013 19:40

  In the face of a slump in PC sales and industry debate over whether the smartphone or tablet is now the preferred tool for a large segment of domestic and even small business users, Asus continues to release a number of combined and flexible devices that try to play on both sides of the dividing lines.

• AMD launches the Radeon 8790M, its new(ish) notebook graphics flagship

  By Daniel Ionescu | 15 May, 2013 19:24

  Attention mobile graphics fiends: AMD says its claiming the crown for the "world's fastest notebook graphics card" with its newly unveiled Radeon HD 8970M.

• HP is ready to get back to business

  By Jared Newman | 29 October, 2011 08:12

  After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, the company seems eager to get back to business as usual.

• The best Windows 8 machines you can buy today

  By Melissa Riofrio | 22 April, 2013 15:25

  We've had about six months to play with Windows 8 (like it or not) and with the first generation of hardware designed for the new OS. So now, with PCs based on Intel's Haswell CPU poised on the horizon, it's time to take stock of the best Windows 8 hardware available today. You may be able to snap one up for a bargain-basement price as the industry clears out inventory in anticipation of second-gen machines.

• Windows 8 tablet showdown: ASUS vs HP vs Samsung

  By Elias Plastiras | 04 March, 2013 10:36

  Deciding on which hybrid-style Windows 8 tablet to go for can be difficult. In this comparative article we pit three Intel Atom-based models from ASUS, HP and Samsung against each other to find out which is best.

• The lazy geek's guide to building a home media center

  By Galen Gruman | 18 February, 2013 11:11

  Anything less than a DIY digital home entertainment project means making the most of Apple TV

• What's with all the Chromebooks?

  By Brad Chacos | 05 February, 2013 14:47

  Chromebooks should be dead. Netbooks - the Chromebook's shameful forefathers, made from the same plastic parts and budget internals - have shuffled into the sunset, and Chromebooks suffer from similar, shockingly severe limitations. Even calling the Chrome OS an "OS" is a bit too kind, as it's virtually crippled without an Internet connection.

• Tablets threaten laptops, but there's more to this picture

  By Tony Bradley | 09 January, 2013 22:36

  This is it: 2013 is the year that tablets surpass notebooks in sales and assume their rightful place atop the mobile computing gadget throne. Don't start playing "Taps" for the notebooks just yet, though--they're not really going anywhere.

• Computer convergence will be highlighted at CES

  By Sharon Gaudin | 04 January, 2013 11:16

  After sparring for users' attention and wallets, PCs and mobile devices are starting to converge in size, style and how we use them.

• Apple's iMac on the road to irrelevance

  By Gregg Keizer | 10 December, 2012 11:20

  Sales of Apple's iMac, the computer often credited with saving the company, have peaked and by the end of 2014 will account for approximately 2% of the firm's revenues, analysts now say.

• The 8 best laptops and Ultrabooks available today

  By Alex Cocilova | 07 December, 2012 14:59

  Have you picked up your laptop lately? If it's getting long in the tooth, it's probably as heavy as it is slow. Fortunately there's no better time to look for a more portable and modern machine than during the holidays. Even if you can't find a year-end deal on the particular model that interests you, you'll be able to impress family and friends when you whip out your new laptop at holiday gatherings.