For far too long the majority of laptop manufacturers have applied a half hearted, almost lazy approach to laptop design. They have assumed that consumers are content with laptops that looked like grey plastic slabs and made little effort to revisit and improve on their aging design ethos.

Even the success of Apple’s Macbook Air failed to spark other manufacturers into action as they continued churning out laptops that once again looked like last year’s model.

So.. In steps Intel

Concerned by this lazy approach to design and also by the rate at which tablets had begun eroding the laptop market Intel decided to take action.

But why are Intel so worried about the popularity of tablets? Simple, Intel don’t make processors for Tablets. As such, each Tablet sold is revenue going somewhere other Intel.

And more concerning for Intel is that Tablets have become …

Epson’s new Stylus Photo R285 is a straight photo printer meaning it’s not a jack of all trades, it’s designed to print high quality photos and it does it very well. The physical design of the printer is conventional yet practical with the folding paper support making the printer very compact so that it takes up minimal space on the desk. The print quality that the machine is capable of producing is excellent, with the combination of a maximum print resolution of 5760 x 1440 dpi and a six colour ink being the reason behind this. One thing that is not so impressive about the R285 is the print in which it prints. Epson claim it can print 37 pages of black text per minute and a 10 x 15cm photo in 12 seconds; however these numbers are …