Tag: keyboard
How To Turn Off Or Change Troublesome Keys In Windows
Do you often find yourself accidentally hitting the wrong keys on your laptop because of poor design or just messy typing? I know your pain. Some keys just get in the way. The solution to this problem is simple: re-map troublesome keys so they act like different ones or turn them off all together. You [...]
Dear Lenovo: Please Stop Making Terrible Keyboard Choices
I think we can all agree that a laptop’s keyboard is one of the most important aspects of the computer. It’s the primary input method, the part of the notebook you touch the most, and its quality and comfort affect your experience more than almost anything else. So why is it that there are still [...]
Logitech Solar Keyboard For Mac Launches, Charges With Ambient Light
If you are as sick of replacing the batteries in your wireless keyboard as I am, you may want to pick up the new solar powered keyboard from Logitech, designed to work with the Mac. The new Wireless Solar Keyboard for Mac retails for $60 and comes in five colors. The new Mac specific version uses the same technology which [...]
Toshiba NB505-N508 Review (Video)
The Toshiba NB505-N508 netbook is a new Intel Atom powered netbook with incredibly long battery life and a lovely green textured lid that won’t collect finger prints. Overall the $299 netbook is worth a look, but you may be hampered by the cramped keyboard. Toshiba NB505 Quick Specs: The netbook we tested is powered by [...]
Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Core i7) Review – Early 2011 w/ Thunderbolt (video)
The new Apple MacBook Pro models released in early 2011 include the latest 2nd Generation Intel Core i family of processors, AMD graphics and a superfast thunderbolt connection. We’ve examined every inch, almost literally inside and out, for our MacBook Pro 15-inch early 2011 review and come to one conclusion. The new Sandy Bridge powered MacBook [...]
11″ Showdown: Samsung Series 9 Compared to the MacBook Air
Samsung has finally made the Series 9 11″ Windows powered ultraportable available for sale, joining the pricy Series 9 13″ notebook. Both of these new Series 9 notebooks are designed to take on the MacBook Air 11″, and while we know it’s not all in the specs we wanted to take a look at the [...]
Low iPad Keyboard Adoption Shows Consumers Don’t Want Tablets to Become Notebooks
Despite the availability of official Apple-designed and third-party keyboards available for the iPad, consumers are not picking up hardware keyboards when buying a tablet according to a report from DigiTimes. The publication says that less than 20% of iPad owners pick up an external or hardware keyboard, suggesting that most tablet and slate owners do [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Hands On, Details, Specs And Video
Lenovo has updated the ThinkPad X Series of notebooks and convertible tablets to include the new Lenovo X220 and Lenovo X220t. The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is an ultraportable notebook that weighs in at less than 3 pounds and has a claimed battery life of up to 23 hours with the optional slice battery. The 12.5″ [...]
How to Tell if a Notebook is Sturdy in Under a Minute (Video)
When you’re looking for a new notebook the specs matter, but another factor that is often overlooked is the build quality. In order to help you find your next notebook or laptop we’ve boiled down everything you need to know about finding a sturdy consumer notebook into the 30 second video below. How to Tell if a Notebook is Sturdy in [...]
Razer Switchblade: Touchscreen Portable Gaming with Dynamic Keyboard (video)
The Game Developers Conference took over San Francisco last week and we were on hand to see what is coming down the pipe in terms of notebook and portable gaming. Chuong Nguyen was on hand at the Intel booth to spot the Razer Switchblade, an impressively small and adaptable gaming notebook. The Razer SwitchBlade is [...]
