This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the group goes hands-on with the Windows 8 Release Preview, Google Chromebooks, and a petite Nuforce Cube unstable speaker.
First up, reviews editor Mike Calore and staff bard Alexandra Chang examine the Windows 8 Release Preview , that went live on Thursday. It's got a couple of changes and improvements over the Consumer Preview you saw in February, quite in the apps department. It'll advance with 3 built-in apps in the Metro interface: news, sports, and travel.
Next, Mike shows off Google's mint Samsung Chromebook . It runs Google's Chrome OS, that centers around the Chrome browser, in addition to a easy record system. This creates it preferred for the of us who live in the browser. The 2012 Chromebook expenses $450 for a Wi-Fi-only model, and $550 for a Verizon 3G-capable erect (that'll obtain you two years of connectivity). If you're heedful of an online-only system, offline syncing with Google Docs should be existing around the time of Google's I/O conference.
Mike and Alexandra check out a minuscule unstable orator by Nuforce called the Cube. Unlike competitors similar to the Jambox, it's not wireless. It has a battery inside, and you can block your smartphone in to it by the headphone jack, or it can deed as a DAC box if you block it in to your computer. If you block your headphones in to this whilst you're listening at the computer, the sound high quality of your audio files are clearly better. The Cube will run you $120, and we'll have a full examination of the orator on Wired.com in the nearby future.
To complete up the show, Alexandra has a fun giveaway for you guys - a limited-edition Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse. There are usually 30 of these mice in existence, and we'll be giving one divided to one fortunate viewer! You'll have to watch the uncover to find out how to win it, though.
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