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Next, vio book, x2-02e. it will be smaller. just great for throwing in your bag. going to the library. coffee shop. you have a touch screen. and -- you have windows 8, the latest operating system. all for $450. >> this is a steal. >> this is one of my favorite ones. from lenovo, idea pad yoga, 11-s. super nice. touch screen. windows 8. really awesome thing about it. check this out. you can use it as a tablet. >> yes. it is a touch screen. prop it up. watch a movie. you can basically do whatever ...

Welcome back. minding your business, the tech heavy nasdaq might be headed for a lower open after we learn that pc sales plummeted in the first three months of the year. taiwan based acer saw a decline. hewlett-packard pc shipments dropped 24%. overall, pc shipments, dropped. idc blames tablets for disrupting the pc markets and microsoft windows 8 getting a weak reception from customers. target reportedly renaming some sandals for sale on website. the sandals are called orina, russian ward for...

Wall street had the third record day in a row. this week. it is leading the charge with high tech companies. the dow starts today, 12 points higher, nearly a full percentage point, 14,802. the boost in tech stocks suggesting businesses are spending more on i.t. upgrades. >> a sharp drop in personal computer sales. despite microsofts aggressive attempt to slow the trend. global sales of pcs dropped 14% during the first few months of the year. the steepest decline in 19 years. analysts thought mic...

In between, kind of hybrid things are a staple in a lot of peoples houses. >> arthel: plenty americans love these and many are so running windows operating systems. how is the latest version holding up and are the newest devices, those thingies worth the investment? "consumer reports" puts them to the test in this latest issue of shop smart magazine. joining us with the results, carol, the associate web editor for shop smart and "consumer reports" on-line. hi. >> hi. >> rick: thanks for coming i...

>> rick: check this out. >> you flip the screen around. push it down. and you have now a tablet. >> rick: wow. very nice. >> not as light as a regular tablet. its a little heftier. but the fact that you can do both kinds of work with this is just very compelling to me. i cooped of want one -- kind of want one of these. >> rick: while were look at these -- >> how did you do that? >> arthel: i dont know how and i would like to stop it. it makes noise. >> rick: what do we like about it? cause a lot...

>> arthel: do we like windows 8? >> yeah. we have a lot of good things to say about it. we think that the touch friendly interface is really interesting and its kind of the wave of the future for these devices, for all devices. >> arthel: even on cars they have the touch screen. >> absolutely. yeah. so the surface tablet is really interesting. maybe rick can show you. >> rick: yeah. >> snap off the removable keyboard and snap it back on again. they offer you a couple choices of key boards, too. ...

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Criticized for things like unreliable searches and lack of directions. and naturally, if this is, indeed, true, apple just wants to restore confidence in the product. it might be worth noting, though, this is certainly not the first or only situation like this, because microsoft also fired a top exec just 15 days after the launch of windows 8 over that whole start button fiasco. thats raised questions about whether or not there will be return of the traditional windows start menu. bottom line he...

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