LAPTOP Magazine: The Pulse of Mobile Technology

Replace Your Laptop with an iPad

Have you ever wanted to jet off on a business trip or head home for the weekend with just your iPad? Now you can. When it first emerged, Apple’s tablet wasn’t meant to be a PC replacement. But a slew of new apps and accessories for the device make it possible to accomplish everything from [...]

Amazon’s Trade-In Program Now Accepts Netbooks and Macbooks

Amazon’s Trade-In Program began accepting used electronics just over a year ago, but while the company would gladly accept MP3 players, cameras, tablets, smartphones and more in exchange for an Amazon gift card, it wouldn’t take used laptops. That changes today: due to popular demand, Amazon has announced that Apple notebooks and non-Apple netbooks have [...]

Report: iPhone 5 Chassis Appears with Larger Display, Smaller Connector Port

Another day another iPhone 5 rumor. This one comes to us from the folks over at 9to5Mac who claim they have photographic evidence of the next iPhone’s design. If the photos prove to be the genuine article, they would confirm rumors that the newest iPhone will have a larger display size (3.9 inches) than previous generations. [...]

Dell Revamps its Latitude Line: Ivy Bridge, Nvidia Graphics, and More

Dell today announced a major refresh of its Latitude line of business-class notebooks including complete redesigns of its E6430s and E6430 ATG laptops. Weighing 3.75-pounds and measuring 13.19 x 8.8 x 1.22 inches, the E6430s offers users a 13-inch display in a 13.3-inch chassis. It comes wrapped in a Tri-Metal casing with an anodized aluminum [...]

Intel Ivy Bridge Benchmarked on ASUS Zenbook UX31A, Lenovo ThinkPad X230: Thinner and Faster Than Ever

Intel just announced the second half of its new Ivy Bridge CPU lineup, processors that are smaller, more powerful, and more power efficient than ever before. This new set of CPUs is designed expressly for ultrabooks and other thin-and-light systems. We recently put a quad-core Ivy Bridge processor to the test (The ASUS N56V), and now, [...]

Oracle CEO Calls Ex-HP Leader Leo Apotheker a Criminal

Oracle’s CEO let loose here at D10, calling ex-HP CEO Leo Apotheker a criminal, saying he stole his company’s software while he was at SAP. And he also poked fun at Apotheker’s short tenure at HP, when the company publicly contemplated exiting the PC business and then decided not to. The world’s most entertaining [...]

Sprint to End Nextel Service, But Push-to-Talk Lives On

Got a Nextel phone? Be prepared to part ways with it. Sprint announced Tuesday (May 29) that it plans to end service for Nextel’s walkie-talkie-style push-to-talk phones as early as June 2013, saying the technology the phones are built upon is obsolete. But there are still options with several carriers to get push-to-talk services. The company stopped [...]

Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 Tablet Lands in June, Brings SRS Speakers for $349

Lenovo has just announced that a new slate will soon be making its way Stateside: the IdeaTab S2109 tablet. And though it’s almost as if Android devices are released every other Tuesday, this tablet in particular might be one to get excited about. First, the specs. Weighing in at 1.27 pounds and measuring 1/3-inch thin, [...]

10 Reasons to Use Foursquare

Since its launch a few years ago, Foursquare has accumulated millions of users eager to collect the location-based service’s rewards. Plus, the recently added Explore feature makes recommendations specifically for you. Be an Explorer Use the Explore tab to find what you want. You can enter such search terms as “barbecue,” “sports bar” or “park” [...]

Archos Child Pad Tablet Costs Just $129, Alvin and the Chipmunks Included

It’s time to stop letting your kids borrow your tablet and buy them their own. The Archos Child Pad, a 7″ tablet, designed specifically for children, is available today at a price point of only $129. The Child Pad runs the latest version of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and is powered by a 1-GHz [...]