Huawei’s latest laptops come with a choice of 14 or 15 inch displays, Intel or AMD chips, and prices that start at around $570. They also come with Windows 10. A year or so ago that wouldn’t have been a question. But US trade restrictions had put that in question… until a few days ago […]
Daily Deals (11-25-2019)
Apple’s newest entry-level iPad is a 1.1 pound tablet with a 10.2 inch display, an Apple A10 Fusion processor, and support for an optional Apple Pencil (1st-gen, sold separately). With a starting price of $329, it’s not ridiculously expensive either… but you know what’s better than paying $329 for an iPad? Paying $250. Right now […]
AMD’s 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor coming in 2020
This month AMD introduced a new set of Ryzen multi-core desktop processors ranging from the 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X to the 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 3970x. They’re available for purchase starting today… and AMD is also confirming a new high-end chip coming next year. The upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor features 64 CPU cores and 128 threads. […]
Huawei launches MatePad Pro premium Android tablet (punch hole and all)
The Huawei MatePad Pro is an Android tablet with a 10.8 inch IPS LCD display, a Kirin 990 processor, and support for up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. With optional 4G LTE support as well as optional accessories including a keyboard cover and pressure-sensitive pen, this is basically Huawei’s version of Apple’s […]
MediaTek is developing 5G modems for PCs with Intel chips
Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek is probably best known for making processors for smartphones, tablets, and Chromebooks. But this year the company also introduced its first smartphone chip with an integrated 5G modem, and now the company has announced a partnership with Intel to bring 5G modems to Intel-powered laptop computers. At least two major PC […]
Amazon Fire tablet hacking resources (Fall 2019 edition)
As usual, Amazon is offering deep discounts on Fire tablets for the holiday shopping season. And as usual, some folks would like Amazon’s tablets better if they worked a bit more like other Android tablets. Amazon Fire tablets run a fork of Android called Fire OS. That means they have an Amazon-designed user interface and ship […]
Pre-Black Friday tech deals (11-24-2019)
Black Friday deals are starting to go live almost a week early. Best Buy is offering deep discounts on hundreds of items. Google and Fitbit are getting in on the action with sales on Pixel tablets and phones and Fitbit smartwatches and activity trackers. And many of Amazon’s device deals are live — you can […]
One Netbook One-GX handheld gaming PC coming next summer
Chinese mini-PC maker One Netbook has cranked out a bunch of tiny computers over the past year and a half — but most have been variations on a theme. Take a convertible laptop with a touchscreen display and a 360-degree hinge and shrink it down to somewhere between 7 and 8.4 inches. Next year the […]
PinePhone smartphone can run desktop Linux apps, also makes phone calls
The PinePhone is a $150 smartphone designed to run free and open source software. For the most part that probably means users will run Linux-based operating systems that have been optimized for mobile devices, like PostmartketOS, Ubuntu Touch, or KDE Plasma Mobile. But since the PinePhone is basically a cheap, low-power Linux computer, it can […]
Daily Deals (11-22-2019)
Black Friday is still a week away, but Amazon has gone ahead and started selling a bunch of devices at Black Friday prices a little early. You can pick up an Amazon Fire tablet for as little as $30, a Kindle for as little as $60, or save a few bucks on various Echo devices […]
Bliss OS 12 Alpha brings Android 10 to desktop PCs
Android is for smartphones and tablets. Chrome OS is for laptops and desktops. That’s what Google’s been telling us for the past decade. But a small group of developers have been challenging that idea for almost as long — and thanks to their efforts you can now install Android 9 or Android 10 on computers […]
webOS Open Source Edition adds support for Raspberry Pi 4, dual displays, and more
Android and iOS may currently dominate the smartphone operating system space, but a one-time rival is still alive and kicking. It’s just not designed to run on phones anymore. Last year LG released webOS Open Source Edition in an effort to bring the software to new platforms. And a series of recent updates have added […]
Google Cloud Print set to drift away by the end of 2020
Google Cloud Print is a service that lets you connect an internet-enabled printer to your Google account and then send print jobs to it from a phone, Chromebook, or just about anything else with web access. First introduced a decade ago as a solution for sending print jobs from Chromebooks to a printer, Google Cloud […]
Intel apologizes to partners for ongoing chip shortage
For the past year Intel has been having difficulty producing enough chips to meet demand… particularly when it comes to the processors used in personal computers. It’s not clear when that will change — but Intel vice president Michelle Johnston Holthaus has taken the unusual step of issuing a public apology. In an open letter […]
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