Topjoy, makers of the Falcon mini laptop, are back with some new devices to share. This time around they’ve stuck to the winged creature theme with the Butterfly tablets. It’s a fitting choice, given the fact that butterflies generally have colorful, paper-like wings and the Butterfly tablets feature color ePaper displays. First unveiled in August, […]
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Computer tech, blogger, husband, father, and avid MSI U100 user.
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Unlocking the Samsung Galazy Z Fold 3 bootloader kills the camera
There’s good and bad news on the modding front this morning for Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 owners. First, the good: the bootloader has already been unlocked and root access achieved, which could pave the way for rooting or running custom ROMs on the phone. Now for the bad. If you do choose to unlock […]
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11 Comments on AMD-based “Industrial Pi” board and fanless PC are first to receive Ubuntu IoT hardware certification
AMD-based “Industrial Pi” board and fanless PC are first to receive Ubuntu IoT hardware certification
11 Comments on AMD-based “Industrial Pi” board and fanless PC are first to receive Ubuntu IoT hardware certificationEmbedded motherboard maker DFI has secured itself a “first.” The company’s GHF51 board and EC90A-GH fanless PC stand alone as the first to have passed Canonical’s Ubuntu IoT hardware certification process. The EC90A-GH appears to simply add a heatsink case and port and connectivity options to the GHF51. Both are built around the AMD Ryzen […]
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Intel NUC X15 laptop packs an NVIDIA GPU and a 240Hz display
Intel releases a whole range of compact NUC desktop PCs every year. They even offer larger more “extreme” NUCs aimed at gamers. Laptops from Intel are much more rare… and a gaming laptop is almost unheard of. That’s exactly what the new NUC X15 “King County” Laptop Kit is, however. Think NUC 11 Extreme, but […]
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Lilbits: the Pixel 6 won’t ship with a charger in the box and Samsung ditches in-app ads
3 Comments on Lilbits: the Pixel 6 won’t ship with a charger in the box and Samsung ditches in-app adsWhen the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro arrive, they’ll be the first to ship with Google’s own Tensor processor. What they won’t be shipping with is a USB charger. The recently-launched Pixel 5a, it seems, will be the last in the line to package a charger. Google mentions a couple of reasons for the […]
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Redmi 10 is a big upgrade to a very solid budget-friendly phone
Xiaomi offshoot Redmi had a winner on its hands last year with the Redmi 9. The budget-friendly phone punched above its weight and a potential publishing slip-up may have revealed that its successor will carry on that tradition. The phone showed up briefly in a post on the Xiaomi blog earlier this week before the […]
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SerenityOS offers a Unix-like experience with 90s computing vibes
Microsoft is busily working away on Windows 11 and its redesigned, modern interface. Andreas Kling, meanwhile, is building the wonderfully retro Unix-like SerenityOS from the kernel on up. Maybe Fluent has really struck a chord with you. If, however, you feel like Windows interfaces peaked with Windows 2000, you’ll love the aesthetic in SerenityOS. Kling […]
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Google Pixel 5a packs a bigger battery and IP67 water resistance for just $449
The Pixel 5a finally checked in at the FCC last month, and today Google’s pre-order page is live! Early impressions of the Pixel 5a are that it’s not a huge change from the Pixel 4a 5G, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The Pixel 4a 5G was already a very good budget phone. Google […]
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Asus N51051-IM-A pairs Intel Jasper Lake with an industrial mini-ITX mainboard
Asus has already shown off a Jasper Lake-based mini PC this summer. Now they’ve revealed the N51051-IM-A, a compact new mainboard that leverages one of Intel’s low-power, low-cost 10nm processors. Asus obviously isn’t hiding the fact that the board utilizes a 10W Celeron N5105 chip. The quad-core N5105 can handle four simultaneous threads and is […]
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Yes you can play Doom on this Linux-powered desk phone
As long as there is someone asking whether or not a particular gadget will run Doom, there will be someone else who wants to prove that, yes, it will Doom. This week’s installment: an ordinary-looking office phone! It’s not truly an ordinary office phone — this is a CaptionCall, an accessible phone that features a […]
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Chuwi wants to crowdsource the “most powerful mini PC in the world”
Fresh off the reveal of the sub-$500 LarkBook, Chuwi is back with another new product announcement. This time around it’s a mini PC and they want your help deciding what hardware makes it into the final design. Chuwi has posted all the possibilities on its 2021 mini PC voting page. To encourage people to participate […]
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Honor Magic3 packs a Snapdragon 888 punch and some crazy camera options
Historically, Huawei spinoff brand Honor has been focused on building midrange hardware. The company seems to be heading in a slightly different direction now with the launch of the Magic3 series. The trio of phones that Honor just revealed are legitimate flagships. There are three different models in the Magic3 line-up: the base Magic3, the […]