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With the Microsoft Surface Book i7, the top tier gets a big upgrade

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Jules Wang

If you wanted more from a Surface Book than what Microsoft ever gave you before, the comapny’s hardware chief, Panos Panay, will give it to you with the new Surface Book i7.The new graphics chip and processor can help deliver twice as much graphic processing power than the regular top-tier Surface Book and thrice as much as the nearest 13-inch MacBook Pro. The design envelope had to be tweaked — a second fan is in the mix.“We also put more batteries in the product,” Panay ...

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Top-end models of Yoga 910 go on sale from Lenovo, Best Buy

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Jules Wang

If you want a high-octane Windows 10 laptop with a 14-inch 4K touchscreen that can turn into a tablet, well, the Lenovo Yoga 910 is up for sale today at Best Buy and Lenovo. And there’s even good news for those who want to edge in on the low-end, just to get in on the fun.All models that are on sale today sport the dual-core Intel Core i7-7500U — Lenovo initially said that you can get “up to” a Core i7, so we’re wondering where all the i5 and i3 options are. ...

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Acer Chromebook R13 is company’s first to run Android apps natively

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Jules Wang

Laptop? Sure. Tablet? You bet. Touchy screen? We’re all keen. And with a price of only $399, we’d say that such a Chromebook has met its time.The Acer Chromebook R13 is the Taiwanese OEM’s first such device to have the Google Play Store — you may know of that on cross-country competitor

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MSI says it has the first HTC Vive-ready notebooks

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Jules Wang

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M is not the GTX 970. If you’re thinking of buying a high-power laptop to connect your HTC Vive to, you should make sure that you have at least a proper GTX 970.HTC has its own recommendations to make — it says that HP, Alienware and MSI have all made “Vive Optimized PCs”. MSI is going so far to say that it has the first VR-ready notebooks as certified by both HTC and Intel. ...

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Microsoft: Apple’s strategy puts iPad Pro as “a companion device”

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Jules Wang

Is the iPad Pro a personal computing replacement? Will spending at least $1,067 for a tablet, keyboard and stylus as opposed to an 11-inch MacBook Air with an accessory or two really make sense? Why not consider a Microsoft Surface? Well, it depends on your way of thinking when it comes to tablets and laptops.Microsoft’s Senior ...

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Life with the Lenovo 100S Chromebook: pros and cons

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Joe Levi

“Welcome to Pocketnow, your one-stop-shop for smartphones, phablets, tablets, and wearables – and Chromebooks? I’m going to have to find some bigger pockets.”– Joe Levi, PocketnowAndroid has been powering smartphones since 2008 when the T-Mobile G1 was released. Later on, OEMs scaled the phone-centric OS up and crammed it into tablets (Google put the brakes on that until it could release Android Honeycomb, which was specifically designed for tablets – and horrible). Google even rolled out not one, but two flavors of Android for televisions. The only ...

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Microsoft Surface Book hands-on (Video)

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by Jules Wang

The debut of Microsoft’s first laptop-format computing solution has everyone in tech circles abuzz (you can find my opinion on what this device as well as the Surface Pro 4 might mean for the proliferation of “detachable computing” here). And it has heavy-duty white collar wearers pondering their options.It has a 13.5-inch screen that’s fully detachable from the extensive and ...

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What Android laptops need to succeed

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Joe Levi

Smartphones are great and useful tools, but until you get a bigger screen on them, they’re never going to replace your laptop computer. Tablets are gaining in popularity and in functionality. They’re doing so well, in fact, that many smartphone makers are pushing the limits of what can be called a “phone” by making screens bigger — much bigger. At Pocketnow we call them “phablets”. When we started we were sort of making fun of the huge-screened phones, but despite our mocking, the phrase suck — and we learned that, when done right, phablets ...

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I don’t want a tablet unless it replaces my laptop

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Adam Doud

Confession time. I’m a mobile technology enthusiast and editorialist who doesn’t own a “real” tablet. At least, I don’t own a “real” tablet by most measurable standards. My flat panel devices at home consist of a Kindle Fire, an HP TouchPad running webOS, and an HP TouchPad running CM9. There is a reason for this. The biggest reason is I don’t really have a pile of money lying around to buy a tablet, unless it’s a laptop replacement. And this is why. I ...

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Can A Tablet Really Replace Your Laptop?

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Joe Levi

I’ll admit it, when the original iPad came out I was somewhat “critical” of it. You may even be able to find a quote from me floating around the inner webz that goes something like this: “The iPad: it’s just like the iPhone, only bigger… and without the phone.” Yeah, I know, coming from “Joe the Android Guy” that sentiment isn’t surprising. What you may find surprising is that, although I won’t retract those words today, I will admit that the iPad and other tablets have come far enough that they’ve come far enough that ...