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Daily Deals (2-06-2023)

Google’s 2022 smartphones are on sale for as much as $150 off. Amazon is running pre-Valentine’s Day sales on Kindle eReaders, Fire Tablets, and Fire TV devices, among other things. Amazon Prime Members can pick up a Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for free. And Best Buy is selling an Asus laptop with a 14 inch, 2880 […]

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Daily Deals (11-03-2020)

Now that Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake chips are here, there are some pretty good deals on laptops with last year’s 10th-gen Comet Lake or Ice Lake processors. But some of the best laptop deals to be found these days are for models powered by AMD’s Ryzen 4000U series chips, which offer competitive bang for the […]

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Real-world Tiger Lake laptop reviews paint a mixed picture

Intel promises that it’s 11th-gen Core “Tiger Lake” processors offer up to twice the graphics performance of the company’s 10th-gen chips, a more modest boost in CPU performance, and other improvements. But how well do they measure up in terms of real-world performance? A few weeks ago the first reviews started to appear and things […]

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Daily Deals (7-27-2020)

Best Buy is selling an Asus ZenBook 14 laptop with a Ryzen 5 4500U “Renoir” processor and NVIDIA GeForce MX350 graphics for $550. Looking for something with a little more CPU horsepower? The Microsoft Store has you covered with a Lenovo 14 inch convertible notebook featuring a Ryzen 7 4700U chip for $669. Or if […]

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Asus quietly introduces new laptops with Intel Ice Lake and AMD Ryzen 4000U chips

This month Asus posted YouTube videos for a few new previously unannounced laptops — but it turns out there are already product pages on the company’s website. So while there’s no information on pricing or availability, it looks like Asus is preparing to expand its ZenBook line of premium thin and light notebooks with several […]

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Asus adds AMD Ryzen models to its ZenBook 14 laptop family

Asus was one of the first companies to launch an “ultrabook” after Intel introduced the new product category in 2011. And while the ultrabook label has fallen out of fashion, every Asus ZenBook laptop released since then has been powered by an Intel chip… until recently. In May, Asus unveiled a ZenBook Flip 14 convertible […]

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Asus unveils ZenBook laptops with 95 percent screen-to-body ratios

The war on bezels is moving from smartphones to laptops. Yesterday Acer showed off a laptop with slim bezels on all sides for what the company said was a 92 percent screen-to-body ratio. Now rival PC maker Asus is introducing a new set of laptops that it says have up to 95 percent screen-to-body ratios. […]