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OK, for 5 years or so now I’ve been primarily using a Chromebook. I’ve been through three. It’s not that I didn’t have Windows around, the desktop in my office is Windows and the laptop was on my kitchen counter is Windows. I used it while cooking so I could keep an eye on messages, plus I have recipes in
Acer has won a number of awards at the ongoing Computex conference in Taipei. Acer's Revo One RL85 Mini PC has won the Best Choice of the Year award and Best Choice Gold award in the Computer & System category. This product was also recognized for the Red Dot and Computex d&i design award. Acer’s S277HK monitor won a Best Choice award in
There are times when only hard copy will do but anyone who has tried to print from a tablet will know that it's not always easy. The main ecosystems from Apple and Google have their own printer strategies with AirPrint and Cloud Print respectively but support is spotty at best. Several printer manufacturers have gone so far as to create their
While researching the Philips Hue Android apps, I discovered that currently there is a single Hue app for Chrome. It's called Hueful and while it's fairly basic, it deserves a mention as (a) it's the only app on Chrome but (b) it shows that Chrome can support this kind of hardware-oriented app. Previously I would have discounted Chrome from being an
Wireless mice are commonplace these days but many only work with their own brand wireless transceiver, which restricts their use to devices equipped with USB ports. Less common are Bluetooth-based mice which have the potential to work with any Bluetooth-equipped unit, including Android and iOS tablets, potentially making them much more useful. On review here is one such mouse, the Microsoft Bluetooth
Earlier this week, HP announced its latest addition to the laptop family, but this time, instead of Windows 8 or 8.1, the little notebook is running Chrome OS. The HP Chromebook 11 sports a Samsung Exynos 5 dual-core ARM chip, 2 GB of RAM and a 16 GB SSD. It also has a webcam, full-size keyboard, 2 USB ports, digital speakers, an 11.6-inch 1366
Yesterday on the Chrome blog, Google announced that new Chromebooks from Acer, Asus, HP, and Toshiba were on their way. Arriving in the next few months the new Chromebooks are based on Intel's Haswell chips rather than the current ARM processors and the chip's low power consumption will double the battery life. These new Chromebooks are (roughly) the third iteration