Dell’s Inspiron laptops are generally positioned as mainstream computers for folks that don’t want to pay for a premium thin-and-light machine like a Dell XPS laptop or a high-performance gaming machine like an Alienware system. But not all Inspiron laptops are created equal. The company offers 3000 Series, 5000 Series, and 7000 Series models and […]
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Zotac’s MEK Mini is a desktop gaming PC… but smaller
Zotac has been focused on two things for the past few years — high performance gaming PC hardware and really tiny computers. The Zotac MEK Mini takes a bit from each category. At 10.3″ x 10.2″ x 5.4″ it’s not exactly the smallest PC on display in Las Vegas during CES this week, but it […]
Asus gives its mid-range VivoBook laptops a makeover
Asus is updating its mid-range laptop lineup with new models sporting 8th-gen Intel core processors, optional support for NVIDIA Geforce graphics, and relatively compact designs. But the first thing you’ll probably notice about the new VivoBook models is the bright new color options. You can still get a boring grey or black model, but there […]
Hands-on with the Huawei MateBook 13
Huawei’s latest 13 inch laptop is coming to North America later this month for $1000 and up, and the company is showing it off a little early during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Like the Huawei MateBook X Pro, which launched last year, the new laptop has a 3:2 aspect ratio […]
ReMarkable E Ink writing tablet gets better with age
A year and a half after shipping its first product, the folks at ReMarkable aren’t ready to start talking about a follow-up yet… because they’re still busy pushing out improvements and new features through software updates for their first product: a 10.3 inch tablet with an E Ink display and pressure-sensitive pen input. I caught […]
First look: Asus 2019 mini PC lineup
Ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Asus unveiled a “mini” workstation PC called the ProArt PA90. It sports a 9th-gen Intel Core processor, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, and plenty of other beefy specs… and when you compare it to other computers with that kind of hardware I guess it does seem kind of small. But […]
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga updates coming in June
Lenovo has announced updates to its ThinkPad X1 line of premium laptops… but you’ll have to wait a little while to get your hands on the new models. The 7th-gen Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a 2.4 pound laptop that measures 0.6 inches thick and support for up to a 500 nit, 4K display with Dolby […]
Intel’s Project Athena is a platform for always-on, always-connected PCs of the future
Intel doesn’t really talk about “ultrabooks” anymore… but that’s because the company doesn’t have to. The chip maker introduced a set of specifications for thin and light laptops in 2011 and in the years since then thin-and-light has become the rule rather than the exception. Now Intel is hoping to do it again, but this […]
Intel demos 10nm Ice Lake chips, teases upcoming laptops (and more from Intel’s CES press event)
It’s been a rocky road to 10nm chips for Intel, but the company is finally starting to show off the first “Ice Lake” mobile chips based on a 10nm “Sunny Cove” architecture. During the company’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, Intel provided a brief demo of a few Ice Lake computer prototypes from manufacturers […]
Samsung introduces Notebook 9 Pro premium convertible and Notebook Flash budget laptops
Samsung is refreshing its notebook lineup with two new models: a premium thin-and-light convertible with an all-metal design and an Intel Whiskey lake processor and a budget model sporting an Intel Gemini Lake processor and a plastic chassis. The new Samsung Notebook 9 Pro is a 13.3 inch convertible with a touchscreen display, pen support, and […]