It is the season of sales and shopping and mobile devices are always in demand, which is why The Tech Report could not have timed the newest update to their Mobile Device Guide any better. From tablets ranging in price from $200-500 to a range of laptops for the mobile business user to those with deep pockets and a desire to game on a laptop there is a lot of good advice in the article. They have separated the convertible laptops from those permanently attached to their screens for your convenience and finish up with a half dozen phone favourites for you.
"In our mobile staff picks, we round up the latest and greatest tablets, laptops, convertibles, and phones that we think are worth your hard-earned dollars. In this edition, we consider Microsoft's Surface Book, Google's latest Nexus devices, Apple's iPhone 6S, and more."
Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
- BlackBerry Priv: Enterprise Android in a snazzy but functional package @ The Register
- Huawei Watch @ The Inquirer
- Samsung Galaxy Note5 Phablet @ Tech ARP
- Sandberg Powerbank 20000 For Laptop Review @ NikKTech
- Asus ROG G752VT @ Kitguru
- Toshiba Tecra A50-C @ The Inquirer
Thin and light with thermally
Thin and light with thermally restricted SOC/APU cores for more cost is what describes current laptops. The number of systems that are dual core has increased with most being Intel’s U series and other low power variants. I looked at some of the “laptop” systems for sale at the office stores and they all appeared to be Thin and Lights, with no floor presence for AMD’s products which had to be ordered online.
Most likely I’ll have to go to Microcenter, or some other big electronics retailer for a better selection of older more powerful real laptop SKUs, but the entire laptop market is becoming Apple like with thin and lights/Ultrabooks as the only choice. There are still some Ivybridge and Haswell systems that can be had without windows 10. Hopefully there will be some future AMD Zen based systems in regular form factor laptops, but even for AMD’s current Carrizo SKUs the availability of Carrizo in regular form factor laptops is nonexistent.
Intel does currently have the high ground, but even Intel has to compete with Intel’s older more powerful quad cores, and some dual core, laptop variants that are still available for a great price new and the last few years older laptop models without any Intel U/M series laptop SOC SKUs that are much better bargains than the new Ultrabook/thin and light weaklings.
I think I’ll forgo any new model laptop purchases and instead go for a mini desktop build, or a Steam OS based small form factor PC system with a real desktop processor, and a better graphics card. The laptop market appears to be circling the drain on the way down to laptops becoming mostly appliance types of systems, with the old workhorse laptops no longer being offered.
tl:dr applefication
tl:dr applefication sucks
some of the lenovo machines look ok. if u dont mind supersperm, that is.