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Intel unveils “Horseshoe Bend” concept with a 17 inch foldable display

The first mobile PCs with foldable displays are set to ship this year, likely starting with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold with its 13.3 inch foldable screen. But Intel says it’s been hearing that some customers want an even larger display in a portable package — so the company developed a design for an even larger […]

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Lenovo’s 2nd-gen Smart Tab M10 is an Android tablet (and a Google Assistant smart display)

A year after launching a line of Android tablets that could also function as Alexa smart displays when connected to docking stations, Lenovo is introducing a 2nd-gen Lenovo Smart Tab M10… but a few key things have changed. The new model has a slightly larger display, a much smaller dock, and instead of Amazon Alexa, […]

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a 3.5 pound gaming laptop with AMD Renoir CPU and NVIDIA RTX graphics

Gaming laptops have been getting thinner and lighter in recent years — but the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 might be one of the lightest models to date to feature a 45-watt processor and support for NVIDIA RTX graphics. The laptop weighs just 3.5 pounds and measures just 0.7 inches thick. It should ship in the first […]

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Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 Chromebook coming this summer for $359 and up

Not every new Chromebook coming this year is going to cost $1000 and up. Case in point: Lenovo’s new Chromebook Duet 2-in-1 tablet has a starting price of $280, and the company’s new IdeaPad Flex 5 Chromebook convertible notebook with a 13 inch display will sell for $359 and up when it goes on sale in […]

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Acer Swift 3 “Project Athena” laptop with 10th-gen Intel Core coming in March for $699 and up

When Intel unveiled its Project Athena initiative last year, the company said the goal was to provide a set of guidelines for PC makers to meet in order to deliver a solid user experience for thin and light laptops and 2-in-1 computers with long battery life and responsive performance — but it turns out that […]

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Acer Swift 3 thin & light laptop with AMD Ryzen 4000 coming in May for $599 and up

Acer is unveiling two new members of the Swift 3 laptop lineup at CES this week. One is a “Project Athena” laptop co-engineered with Intel and featuring an Intel Ice Lake processor. The other is the AMD Ryzen-powered Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) which will be available in North America in May for $599 and up. It’s […]

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AMD’s 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor coming in February for $3990

A few months after introducing 3rd-gen Ryzen Threadripper desktop processors with up to 32 CPU cores, AMD is introducing a 64-core version. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processor is the first consumer desktop processor from any company to feature 64 CPU cores and 128 threads, and it’ll be available starting February 7th for $3,990. This […]

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AMD launches Ryzen 4000 laptop processor family (Up to 8 Zen 2 CPU cores & Radeon Vega graphics)

Over the last few years AMD has been giving Intel a run for its money in the desktop processor space with its Ryzen line of processors that offer an awful lot of performance, typically at a lower cost than their Intel counterparts. But AMD’s laptop processors haven’t been quite as impressive… and they haven’t been […]

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Alienware’s Concept UFO is a modular handheld gaming PC (much more than a Nintendo Switch clone)

I wouldn’t blame you if you took one look at Dell’s Alienware Concept UFO handheld gaming PC and its detachable controllers and decided it was nothing but a Nintendo Switch clone. But this little device is much more than that — because it’s got the guts of a full-fledged Windows computer. Sure, you could use […]

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Dell unveils foldable and dual-screen PC prototypes (Ori and Duet)

Dell isn’t ready to commit to mass producing dual-screen or foldable PCs just yet. But the company does have a couple of working prototypes that it’s showing off at CES this week. The Dell Concept Ori device is a tablet with a flexible OLED display that allows you to fold the computer in half like […]