Now playing: Watch this: Accidentally ordering from Amazon during an Apple Watch… 2:38 On the first day of the Apple Watch’s official availability, we decided to demo some of the leading apps for the smartwatch via Twitter’s Periscope app in a loose, improvised session. Taking questions from the viewers of our livestreaming video, broadcast from …

Sarah Tew/CNET No computer component in recent years has been as tough to pin down as Intel’s Core M processor. First seen in late 2014 and turning up in more systems in early 2015, this energy-efficient chip came with an appealing pitch. According to Intel, Core M would power laptops, tablets and hybrids designed to be thin and light, and …

Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s new 12-inch MacBook is a highly successful study in enforced minimalism, with only one port in a slim, 2-pound body. It’s not for everyone, but it may be the perfect coffee shop companion, thanks to its small size, decent battery life and excellent redesigned keyboard. But like many new Apple products, it may be hard to get …

Now playing: Watch this: Using USB-C in Apple’s new MacBook 2:54 If there’s one thing about Apple’s new 12-inch MacBook that seems to drive people crazy, it’s that the slim, 2-pound laptop has only a single shared port to handle data, power, video output and accessories. Forget Apple’s current scheme of packing in USB, Thunderbolt/mini-DisplayPort, HDMI and even an SD …

Sarah Tew/CNET PC gamers who have stuck with big, bulky desktops are being rewarded for not making the switch to gaming laptops. Nvidia has released a new generation of desktop graphics cards under the imposing name Titan X, intended to outshine the company’s GeForce GTX 980 models, which were introduced in September, 2014. These new cards, if purchased individually, would …

Now playing: Watch this: Test driving Apple’s Force Touch trackpad 2:49 One of the most talked-about new features in the upcoming 12-inch Apple MacBook is its new touchpad. Apple calls its versions trackpads, and this new type is the Force Touch trackpad, a new approach to the traditional hinged click-down design found on most laptops. But you don’t have to …

Sarah Tew/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — Select Mac computers will now feature the latest generation of Intel processors, according to announcements made by Apple at the company’s March 9 press event in San Francisco. In addition to the all-new 12-inch Macbook coming April 10th, Apple also upgraded the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air with new processors and Thunderbolt 2 ports, and …

Sarah Tew/CNET Portability and space-saving for computers are generally traits of slim laptops and lightweight tablets, or the new generation of hybrid PCs that combine aspects of both. Several years ago, an eternity in technology time, there was another popular breed of small computers, called small form factor or media center PCs. Some connected to TVs for media streaming and …

Now playing: Watch this: The most innovative computers of CES 2015 18:22 LAS VEGAS — The halls and hotel suites of CES 2015 provided a huge number of noteworthy new computers, thanks to the introduction of new components, innovative new materials, and new ideas for how to make and sell PCs. Leading the charge was Intel, with its long-awaited fifth-generation …

Dan Ackerman/CNET LAS VEGAS — At the company’s CES 2015 press conference, Asus Chairman Jonney Shih unveiled new products in two categories, hybrid Windows PCs and photo-friendly smartphones. The Transformer Book Chi series is a collection of hybrid Windows devices that act as both laptop and tablet. These are detachable hybrids, which means they start as traditional-looking clamshell laptops, and …