Understanding Computers One Byte At A Time
When Apple launched the new iPad earlier this year they also decreased the price of the iPad 2 down to just $400 which is a pretty good deal for a tablet that is still pretty up to date. Apple also introduced a new 32nm Apple A5 processor which they planned on putting into the iPad 2 in order to improve battery life just a little. Today … [Read more...]
We reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Note which was really a giant smartphone which could be considered a tablet. Today we are unboxing a very different device, a smaller tablet which really isn't a whole lot bigger than the Samsung Galaxy Note. I'm talking about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 has a nice 7.7-inch Super AMOLEd Plus … [Read more...]
Today Google finally unveiled the highly anticipated Google Drive cloud storage and syncing solution aimed to compete with services like Dropbox, Skydrive, and Sugarsync. Let's take a look and see what Google Drive is all about, and how it compares to the competition. Just as rumored Google Drive allows users to store and sync a total of 5GB worth … [Read more...]
Google announced plans to double down on tablets earlier this year, but the ironic thing is that we really haven't seen a whole lot of really amazing new Android tablets, or improvements to the Android operating system for tablets. Of course Google still has eight months, but why not start now. One thing that we have been seeing with Android … [Read more...]
Last year Intel introduced the ultrabook as a somewhat affordable ultraportable notebook computer aimed to compete with the Apple MacBook Air. At CES 2012 the idea of an ultrabook kind of changed just a little bit since we started to see some ultrabook tablet hybrids. In other words we saw ultrabooks with touchscreens that could slide up and down … [Read more...]
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 should arrive later this month, however we'll have to wait until May until we get the larger Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Samsung mentioned that their delay was because they needed to finish getting TouchWiz onto the tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That part make sense, but why is the larger Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 … [Read more...]
Microsoft plans to launch Windows 8 this fall after continuing to test the operating system over the next few months. Some reports suggested that Microsoft was going to have just one version of Windows with Windows 8 instead of the various different versions of previous versions of Windows like Windows 7. Today Microsoft announced the specifics … [Read more...]
Yesterday Samsung announced when they planned to launch the Galaxy Tab 2 series tablets in the United States. Both tablets are due to arrive over the next month which is good news. But if you recall Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 10.1 at around the same time they announced the Galaxy Tab 2, Samsung hasn't said much about the Galaxy Note 10.1 … [Read more...]
Earlier this month Samsung announced that they delayed the launch of the Galaxy Tab 2 series to a later date instead of the late March launch that they initially aimed for. It turns out that the delay isn't actually too long since today Samsung announced the details on the launch of the Galaxy Tab 2 in the United States. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 … [Read more...]
Intel launched very low end, cheap, and portable Windows computers called netbooks a few years ago. At first they were very successful but soon people realized that the netbooks just didn't have enough power for day to day use. Plus we saw the introduction of tablets that weren't priced a whole lot more and offered a whole lot more functionality in … [Read more...]
