The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

A portable device with some compromises I recently surveyed a bunch of students about the most important aspects of a high school or college laptop. Because at $649 list price (it’s about $673 on Amazon at time of press), the question isn’t “Does this laptop knock your socks off?” It’s got a budget laptop look. The Swift 3 is 2.65

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2011

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Force.com Utility Belt - This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation.it's all there.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Disappointingly, older iMacs and pre-2018 Mac laptops that could theoretically play Netflix 4K content, whether on their built-in displays or via an 4K or 5K external monitor, won’t be able to. And you can only watch 4K Netflix content using Safari, not other browsers, according to Netflix’s support doc. MacBook Pro (2018 or later).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re now working at home, if your kids are now learning at home, if you’re just stuck at home and looking for a good computing experience, you may be in the market for a new laptop. What follows are reviews of a variety of laptops that you might want to consider for the use of yourself and your family. (It Windows 10 laptops.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops. But the Spin 513 has a quite nice 1920 x 1080 screen, which is as good of a resolution as you’ll ever see on any laptop at this price.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

This fantastic doc from MIT will walk you through your office to help you pinpoint places where you can do more to help Mother Earth. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Print green.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2021

On a home-built desktop (Core i7-7700K, RTX 3060 Ti) and a 2017 Dell XPS 15 laptop (Core i7-7700HQ). Windows disqualified my 7th-gen laptop and forced me to do a clean install, though, so I did a dual-boot there.). On a 2019 Dell XPS 13 7390 laptop (Core i7-10710U). On a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 laptop (Core i5-8250U).

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Open one too many tabs on a few-year-old laptop, and your fan starts spinning, your battery life dips, your system starts to slow. Mighty claims it’ll eliminate distracting cookies and ads, automatically notify you about Zoom meetings, quick search Google Docs and presumably other integrations to come.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2011

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Force.com Utility Belt – This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation…it’s all there.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

inches, it’s a typical size for a tablet, but if you’re trying to use it the way you’d use a work laptop (with dozens of tabs and Windows side by side, for example) things get cramped. Docs and Spotify each crashed once or twice, but it wasn’t a rampant problem. Both were actually better than the webcams I tend to see on laptops.

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The Verge

JULY 3, 2020

A massive laptop you probably don’t need Seventeen! This laptop has a 17-inch screen. It’s very unusual to see a 17-inch laptop under four pounds — let alone under three. For that niche, though, this laptop tracks. For that niche, though, this laptop tracks. A laptop so light usually comes with major caveats. (I

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Master of the multitask I’ve never really understood the appeal of 17-inch laptops. They are often too big to carry around easily or use on your actual lap like you might want to do with a laptop from time to time. Either way, this is firmly in premium laptop territory. It lists for $2,649.99 It has a 5.53-pound

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps. Surely you still need your "real" laptop to run your donated copy of Adobe Creative Suite , right? In January, Kevin reviewed the Cr-48 laptop , a Chromebook prototype. Word processing? For instant messaging, there's Meebo as well as a handful of other tools.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

AMD helps bring OLED to the mainstream Seeing a laptop with an OLED screen at a sub-$1,000 price point is wild. But if there’s anyone I’d trust to make sub-$1,000 OLED happen, it’s Asus, one of the masters of affordable, portable laptops. Most unsurprisingly, the ZenBook 13 OLED dominated both of those laptops on battery life.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

I’m sure that Google’s floating compose buttons — which it uses across other G Suite apps like Drive and Docs — are the result of hours of testing that show that users easily find buttons when they’re positioned on the bottom right of the screen. I don’t doubt that there are objectively good reasons for them. Screenshot: Gmail.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

A few corners have been cut, but the fact that they’re even worth mentioning is a testament to how excellent this laptop is. Holster the pitchforks — I know that’s not heavy in the grand scheme of laptops, but it’s noticeably heavier than the Galaxy and the Go.) The downward-firing stereo speakers are also not great.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That means you can access any of your files anywhere, whether you’re on your work computer, phone, laptop or tablet—as long as you have your login info and an internet connection, you’re set. Pretty much every Google Drive platform (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar) allows you to work on documents simultaneously with your coworkers.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Elite Folio is a lightweight, leather-covered, convertible Windows laptop powered by a Snapdragon processor with Arm architecture. The Folio is a convertible laptop, but you have more than the usual tent, tablet, and clamshell options. I think this is the first laptop I’ve ever reviewed that I wish had slightly larger bezels.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. As a result, he finds that people in NGOs in the region are beginning to use cloud computing services like Google Docs and Hotmail , but are often not aware that those applications they are using are in the cloud, or what exactly cloud computing is.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. It is also well-integrated and can store documents in the cloud to several services including Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote, Huddle, and several others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Many industries rely on cloud-based document platforms like Google Docs for sharing and collaboration, but while copywriters and sales folks probably find the standard office suite sufficient, that’s not necessarily the case for scientists whose disciplines demand special documentation and formatting.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Joining a FaceTime call from a Windows laptop is eerily similar to joining a Zoom or Google Meet call — you click the link, the call opens in your browser, you’re asked to enter your name, and you wait around until the host lets you in. Elsewhere, Apple seems to be trying to push Notes towards a similar vein to Google Docs.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This is what the future of the Mac looks like Last week might’ve been the most important week of this year for consumer laptops. Apple announced its new M1 chip, which, if the company’s claims about performance gains are to be believed, could redefine our expectations for laptop processors. Big Sur is a fine operating system as it is.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. I also have a remote connection to my home (business) laptop available at all times. Make sure this is agreed to. - get a good time tracking system.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you bought a new Windows laptop on Black Friday or received one as a gift, you may be struggling to figure out which apps to download. That’s going to be shared between all the stuff your account might have in various Google programs — Docs, Sheets, Photos, etc. — Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Never fear.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Your nonprofit can record audio files using your deskptop/laptop computer or Audioboo’s mobile app and then upload them to your own Audioboo Channel. It is a must download! Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/internetstats.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

However, the full dataset is about 40GB, and trying to handle that much data on my little laptop, or even in a Colab notebook was a bit much, so I had to figure out a pipeline that could manage filtering and embedding a larger data set. The previous version used only about 3.5k TLDR; Did it improve the search?

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

That is, you can fold it the long way when you’re using the tablet like a laptop, or you can flip the tablet vertically and fold the kickstand horizontally. The songs I played had stronger percussion than I sometimes hear from laptop speakers, but it was thin and tinny overall. This was a difficult product to score.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

If it’s an article with a product recommendation — laptop, headset, what have you — there’s a good chance I’ll be looking at it at some point. Like most people at The Verge , I probably have more spreadsheets and Google Docs than I care to admit. I also have Apple’s Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

There’s a Google H1 security chip inside, which works like the TPM chips that you’ll often find in Windows business laptops. I’ve seen significantly more than that (with the same workload) from all kinds of Chromebooks, not to mention Windows and macOS laptops. The shutter is so tiny you probably can’t see it here.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Lots of the games I would stream from Microsoft’s Game Pass Ultimate or Google Stadia were designed to be played on laptop or TV screens, so having the Z Fold 2’s tablet-sized screen made them a lot more usable than a smaller phone. Heck, Google Docs is actually halfway decent on this screen when you put the device in landscape mode.)

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Photo or video of how their gift is being used. The right photo or video can really hit the donor squarely in the heart.

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