After years of focusing on “flagship killer” phones, OnePlus introduced the €399 ($470) OnePlus Nord this summer, bringing not-quite-flagship-class specs to a mid-range smartphone. Now the company is expanding the OnePlus Nord family with two new models: the OnePlus Nord N10 5G and OnePlus Nord N100. And unlike the original OnePlus Nord, both of them […]
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Acer brings Tiger Lake to its TravelMate business notebooks
Acer is launching three new business-class notebooks featuring 11th-gen Intel Core “Tiger Lake” processors, Intel Xe graphics, 14 inch full HD displays, durable cases, and optional support for 4G LTE. The new Acer TravelMate notebooks also have optional support for NVIDIA GeForce MX 350 graphics. The Acer TravelMate Spin P4 (TM414RN-51) is a convertible notebook with a […]
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Daily Deals (10-23-2020)
Best Buy is selling the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 10.1 inch 2-in-1 tablet with a detachable keyboard for $269 ($30 off). Meanwhile, the store is also selling the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 thin and light gaming laptop with an AMD Ryzen 9 processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics for $1200 ($200 off), which means you […]
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20 Comments on Does a $200 price drop make Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo any more attractive? (Now it’s $1200)
Does a $200 price drop make Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo any more attractive? (Now it’s $1200)
20 Comments on Does a $200 price drop make Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo any more attractive? (Now it’s $1200)The Microsoft Surface Duo is both one of the most interesting devices Microsoft has released in years… and also possibly one of the hardest to justify buying. With a list price of $1400, it’s a first-generation dual-screen handheld that could eventually pave the way for a new type of computing device. But right now it […]
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Lenovo Legion Slim 7 is a 4 pound gaming laptop with up to Ryzen 9 4900H
Lenovo’s latest gaming laptop is available with up to a 15.6 inch 4K display, up to an AMD Ryzen 9 4900H processor, and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics. The Lenovo Legion Slim 7 (15) also has a 71 Wh battery and supports up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. But the […]
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Daily Deals (10-22-2020)
Epic Games Store is giving away two PC games for free this week. Google is giving Chromebook owners a chance to sign up for 3 months of free game streaming via Stadia and/or NVIDIA GeForce Now. And CBS is giving away 1-month subscriptions to All Access (just in time to watch the first half of Star […]
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Huawei launches some of the best phones you can’t or shouldn’t buy (Huawei Mate 40 Pro, Pro+, and RS)
6 Comments on Huawei launches some of the best phones you can’t or shouldn’t buy (Huawei Mate 40 Pro, Pro+, and RS)Huawei’s smartphone hardware has gotten really good over the last few years. The company offers some of the best smartphone camera systems on the market and its Kirin processors are some of the best-performing chips available for Android phones. Unfortunately the company is under tight trade restrictions imposed by the United States which means that […]
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Ubuntu 20.10 released (and it’s the first version with full Raspberry Pi support)
The latest version of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution is out today, and among other things, Ubuntu 20.10 brings updates to the desktop environment, better hardware support for select PCs with fingerprint sensors or touchscreens, and for the first time there are official desktop and server builds of Ubuntu available for Raspberry Pi computers. The […]
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One Netbook A1 handheld computer preview
Over the last decade the average laptop computer has gotten a lot thinner and lighter. But a handful of Chinese companies have been taking a different approach to portable computers by releasing a series of pocket-sized (or nearly pocket-sized) computers. GPD got things started with its Win line of handheld gaming PCs and Pocket line […]
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Lilbits: eGPU performance, theme-aware apps, and transcript-based video editing
One of the selling points for laptops with Thunderbolt 3 ports is that they support data transfer speeds up to 40 Gbps over a USB cable… so you can connect use a desktop graphics card with notebooks like the Razer Blade Stealth by connecting an external graphics dock. But it turns out that not every laptop […]