Holiday Gift Guide: Notebooks

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Notebook PCs are still very popular and key personal and productivity devices. Sure, smartphones and tablets might be the hotter products but a good notebook is something everyone can use. This season we're seeing the emergence of new convertible Ultrabooks, ever-thinner MacBook Pros with Retina Displays and even something unique from Google and Samsung in the Chromebook space.

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Review: iPad mini

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple’s iPad mini isn’t the first 7.9-inch tablet to come to market but it already is the most recognizable.

Joining the likes of the Nexus 7, BlackBerry PlayBook, Toshiba Excite and various Samsung Tabs, the iPad mini now sits between the iPhone and the larger iPads.

An extension of Apple’s vast app and services ecosystem, the iPad mini serves to give users yet another mobile device option and opens up the market for users who find the 9.7-inch iPad too big or feel it it is priced out of their budget.

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Review: Parrot Zik Bluetooth headphones with multi-touch and NFC

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The market is littered with expensive headphones and while a number of them are quite good, many are too expensive for what they offer. The problem is that many of these headphones offer a lot of flash without any true innovation.

Parrot made a list of all the features that would make a dream set of headphones and created the Parrot Zik. A simple name for a product that’s stacked high with tech and innovation.

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The Apple Beat: 10 years ago a very different iMac was launched

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Every now and then I like to go back in time and reprint an old story from my early Apple coverage. It is interesting to see how things were back then when Apple was still  in recovery mode. This was 2002, the iPod had already been launched and the the Mac was the 'Digital Hub'. "Jaguar" (OS X 10.2 was the current OS) Compaq and IBM still made computers and PDAs were all the rage. Good times. Hit jump to read "Apple iMac 2002: Redefining the Desktop"

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