The $179 Magic Screen gives any MacBook a touchscreen with stylus support
Hidden around a modern MacBook display are magnets used to tell the laptop you shut the lid. Intricuit, a small hardware startup, looked at those…
Laptops
Micro Journal Rev.2.1.MINI Writing Laptop Pairs a Wide Screen With Just 48 Keys
Opening a laptop to write a paragraph can quickly turn into checking messages, rearranging windows, and forgetting the sentence you had in mind. The Micro…
DIY Mod Makes The Apple Logo Glow On (Some) Existing MacBooks
The glowing Apple logo was the best free feature Apple ever shipped, and I will not be taking questions. For years it turned every MacBook…
Apple revived the glowing logo, and turned it into the ultimate status symbol
If you owned a MacBook before 2016, you remember the glowing apple on the lid. It lit up dorm rooms, airport gates, and every TV…
Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook leaves the iPad with an identity crisis
If the iPad were a person, this would be the week it checked its phone and found out its friends had started a group chat…
Apple just launched a MacBook Pro 24-hours before its MacBook Pro event
On Monday, the day the new iPad mini landed, I begged John Ternus to take a break. On Tuesday morning, Apple responded by dropping a…
The Slurptop DIY Laptop Pairs Power-Tool Styling With a Swappable Battery
The Slurptop borrows its battery from the toolbox, and its body doesn’t bother pretending otherwise. This homemade cyberdeck wraps mini PC hardware in a chunky…
This MacBook Concept Brings Workshop Styling to a Familiar Laptop
Laptop shopping can get rather repetitive when even very different machines wear similarly restrained metal shells. MacBook Brutal explores an alternative, keeping the familiar clamshell…
ASUS ExpertBook A7 Gives the Business Laptop a Sleeker Look
When I first saw the ASUS ExpertBook A7, I had to double-check that it was really meant for business. This laptop immediately cuts a different…
CleanMyMac just made a Screen Cleaning Perfume for your MacBook that smells like a pine forest
Apple’s official answer to a smudgy MacBook screen is a $9 Polishing Cloth, which, to be fair, is ten bucks cheaper than the version everyone…
HP’s $699 OmniBook 5 Has the One Thing the MacBook Neo Doesn’t
Affordable laptops often make you choose between a nice screen and a machine you’d want to carry. HP’s $699.99 OmniBook 5 14 makes a different…
WIKO’s $1,220 Hi MateBook 14 puts a gorgeous 3:2 OLED on a very practical laptop
WIKO started in Marseille, spent a decade making budget Androids, got acquired by a Chinese telecom group in 2021, found its way into Huawei’s retail…
Microsoft Just Proved Purple Belongs on a Windows Laptop for Good
Tech companies test colors the way restaurants test seasonal menu items, quietly, without much commitment, ready to pull them the moment sales dip. Purple laptops…
You Can Finally Pre-Order a Googlebook, Starting at $899
A laptop announced in May with no price, no ship date, and no way to actually buy one is easy to forget by September. Googlebook…
Acer’s Googlebook 14 Gave Its Lid a Job, Most Laptops Never Bothered
Laptop lids have carried the same boring formula for decades: a brand logo centered dead center and nothing else worth noticing. The Acer Googlebook 14…
VAIO’s Multi-Flip laptop is back after a decade, and it’s not cheap
Count how many times you have flipped your convertible into tablet mode this year. I am guessing the number sits closer to zero than to…