Your Ultimate Laptop Buying Guide
We test more than 200 laptops a year in the Labs and have watched as the conventional laptop has morphed from the clamshell productivity tool we all knew and loved to a hybrid device that can also serve as a full-featured tablet. Buying a laptop raises a lot of questions. Should you get Windows 8? Do you need a hybrid? Is the extended warranty really necessary? PCMag's Brian Westover has answers to all of these issues and more.
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 | How Mercedes-Benz's mbrace Helped Catch the Marathon Bombers
The Boston bombers made multiple mistakes on their criminal rampage but among them was hijacking a car with a built-in tracking system. The Mercedes' mbrace telematics system allowed cops to locate the vehicle within an hour of the hijacking. The real trend here isn't that the car could be tracked via a $280 per year telematics service, but that the same ability was built into the cell phone that was left in the car. Going underground isn't what it used to be. ExtremeTech has the details.
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How Jawbone's Latest Acquisition Will Transform Digital Health
Word broke this week that Jawbone bought BodyMedia, combining two of the biggest players in the booming digital health market. Jawbone's fashionable UP wristbands are a deep contrast to BodyMedia's trackers, which tend to be a bit bulkier and track many more data points. The move quickly makes Jawbone a leader in the space. Even more interesting than the BodyMedia sale, which is estimated to be worth more than $100 million, is that Jawbone is making its UP platform available to third-party developers. This is something I think consumers have been craving.
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How to Remove Babylon Search Toolbar
Millions of consumers turn to download.com to get software. Unfortunately, some of that software comes with an unwelcome add-on: the Babylon Search Toolbar. Now the toolbar won't hurt your system but it will mess with your browser settings and probably redirect you to some sites you don't want to visit. How do you get rid of it? It isn't easy, but PCMag's Fahmida Rashid can walk you through it.
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