Wireless charging has become a common feature for smartphones, earbuds, and other gadgets in recent years. But laptops? You usually have to plug them in to charge their batteries. Lenovo’s new USB-C Wireless Charging Kit could change that. Sort of. The company isn’t building wireless charging capabilities into its laptops, but the $140 kit coming […]
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Lenovo IdeaPad 5i and Flex 5i Chromebooks with Intel Tiger Lake coming this summer ofr $440 and up
Lenovo is launching two new Chromebooks powered by Intel Tiger Lake chips. The Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Chromebook is a 14 inch Chrome OS laptop coming in July for $440 and up, while the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i is a 13 inch convertible that’s set to hit the streets in June for the same starting price. Both feature […]
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Extreme has a 16 inch display and up to a Core i9 processor and NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics
1 Comment on Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Extreme has a 16 inch display and up to a Core i9 processor and NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphicsThe Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme is a compact mobile workstation-class laptop that weighs about 4 pounds, but which packs a lot of horsepower. This summer Lenovo is refreshing the ThinkPad X1 Extreme by equipping it with a new Intel Tiger Lake-H processor and support for up to 64GB of RAM, 4TB of storage, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX […]
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Lenovo ThinkPad L13 and L13 Yoga Gen 2 with Ryzen 5000 coming in August
Lenovo is expanding its ThinkPad L13 line of affordable laptops with two new models featuring AMD Ryzen 5000 processors. The new ThinkPad L13 Gen 2 with AMD Ryzen will be available in August for $799 and up, while ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 2 will have a starting price of $999. It’ll also be Lenovo’s first Windows convertible […]
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Lilbits: Extra screens for your laptop, E Ink monitors, and open source 4G LTE networks
One way to get a little extra screen space for your laptop is to invest in a portable monitor that you can stand up next to your computer. Another is to invest in… two portable monitors that are designed to slide out from behind your primary display when you want to use them, and hide […]
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Brave launches a privacy-focused search engine
Brave is a web browser that places an emphasis on privacy, with built-in features that block ads, trackers, and other scripts. Now the folks behind the Brave browser are launching something new – a privacy-focused search engine. Brave Search is now available in beta, and you can access it from within the brave browser or […]
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Daily Deals (Prime Day and beyond)
Amazon Prime Day ends tonight, and some of the deals listed in our day 1 roundup are no longer available. But you can still score some deep discounts on tablets, smart speakers, wireless networking gear and much, much more today. Just keep in mind that you need an Amazon Prime membership to quality for many […]
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Reinkstone R1 eReader with a 10.1 inch color ePaper display hits Kickstarter
The Reinkstone R1 is a 10.1 inch tablet or eBook reader with a 2232 x 1680 pixel electronic paper display that can show 4096 colors. You can use the device to read or annotate eBooks thanks to support for an optional pressure-sensitive pen. But thanks to 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 1.8 GHz ARM […]
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SiFive Performance P550 is the most powerful RISC-V processor to date
Chip designer SiFive has unveiled two new processor cores featuring RISC-V architecture, including the new SiFive Performance P270 and SiFive Performance P550 processor. The company says the latter is the highest-performance RISC-V processor to date. It’s also the first RISC-V processor core that Intel plans to incorporate into an upcoming chip. Intel says it will […]
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Go pairs optional 4G LTE with budget specs
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Go is a 14 inch laptop with budget specs including a 1366 x 768 pixel display and an Intel Celeron N4500 dual-core processor. But it has a few special features including optional support for 4G LTE and support for up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (which is a lot, […]
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Daily Deals (Prime Day counterprogramming edition)
While there are some great deals to be found in Amazon’s Prime Day sale, Amazon isn’t the only game in town. So whether you don’t have a Prime membership, you’re looking to spend your money somewhere else, or maybe score some deals on products that Amazon doesn’t, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of […]
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Slimbook Executive is a lightweight 14 inch laptop with Windows or Linux (or both)
Spanish PC vendor Slimbook sells laptops with a choice of Windows or Linux, and the company’s latest is the Slimbook Executive, a 2.2 pound notebook with a 14 inch, 2880 x 1800 pixel 90 Hz display and an Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor. It’s available from Slimbook for 1299 € ($1540) and up. While that’s not […]