Apple netbook? Apple tablet? Both? Neither?
With all of Apple’s major hardware revisions out of the way after last week’s upgrades, the focus of pundits and fanboys alike can once again turn to mysterious new Apple products. No, I don’t mean the mysterious new iPhone, which Apple may or may not be testing ahead of a summer launch — I mean two entirely new products that may or may not exist at all: An Apple netbook and an Apple tablet.
I put… Continue Reading
Dean’s picks for the best of DEMO
The DEMO 2009 conference was in a familiar setting in Palm Desert, Calif., this week, but it was very different from past shows. The elephant in the room, as organizer Chris Shipley pointed out, was the weak economy.
That colored everything. There were fewer companies — 39 this time versus 72 in the fall and 68 a year ago. This meant I was able to spend more time with each company, meeting them at their booths… Continue Reading
DEMO: Always Innovating’s Touch Book sounds amazing. Can it deliver?
I haven’t gotten a chance to try a Touch Book yet, but I want to. Who wouldn’t? The netbook produced by Always Innovating, making its debut at the DEMO conference today, claims to offer 10 to 15 hours of battery life, weighs under 2 pounds and, perhaps most importantly, starts at $299.
That’s cheaper than an Amazon Kindle. And this thing can do a whole lot more.
For $299 you get a tablet computer, a device with… Continue Reading