Insight Canada now allows corporate employees option to choose Apple products

Insight Canada will enable enterprises to offer employees choice to easily and cost-effectively deploy, secure and maintain iOS and macOS devices with its just lauched Insight Managed Services for Apple. Along with the new program, Insight Canada will now offer iPhone to customers, in addition to Mac and iPad.

Given that most employees are familiar with or prefer to use macOS and iOS products from Apple for personal use, making these an option for corporate deployment should help them be productive within familiar ecosystems.

“Apple users are passionate about iPhone, iPad and Mac, and companies need to be able to deliver the best experience at work,” said John Dathan, senior vice president and general manager, Insight Canada.

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Samsung tipped to be showing off its bendable smartphone at developer conference today

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Samsung is expected to give developers a peek into the future by revealing its foldable smartphone concept at the ongoing developer conference taking place in San Francisco. As seen by a three-year-old video above (a Lenovo concept device that folds from tablet to smartphone), the technology is not new.

If anyone can push such a concept into the mainstream (and charge $2,000 for it), Samsung is well poised to lead the charge. A folding Galaxy phone arriving in 2019 is the best way to commemorate 10 years of Galaxy devices. Samsung had done flexible and bendy phones in the past and has bought us edge displays and the like. A tablet with an OLED display that can do double duty as a smartphone or even triple duty as a DeX-enabled PC replacement is the gadget of our collective dreams.

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Google's Pixel Slate is now available for preorder

Google's second coming of the tablet, the Pixel Slate is starting to become available for preorder (at least for our American readers). Bringing the best of Chrome OS, Android and Linux (under the Crostini-layer that allows Linux apps to run in a container) the Pixel Slate is a powerful tablet-first 2-in-1 that can be used in laptop mode with an optional keyboard case.

Canadian pricing will start at $1,049.99 but can increase considerably for higher performance models as well as when you add the Pen and Keyboard accessories.

MSI launches new ultrabooks and workstations for creatives

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

MSI is highly regarded for its gaming laptops which bring insane processing and graphics power to aggressively styled gaming laptops. The company is now taking all the things they've learned from making gaming notebooks and applying it to their new ultrabook and creative workstation products.

The slim and elegant MSI PS42 and the beefier yet vastly more performant MSI P65 both offer the latest 8th Generation Intel Core i7 processors (in quad-core and six-core variants), large 16GB of RAM and fast SSDs. The new notebooks are designed for portability and performance.

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