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Acer’s $199 Liquid Zest Plus smartphone coming to America in July, packing a 5,000 mAh battery

The Acer Liquid Zest Plus is a mid-range smartphone with a big battery. Like 5,000 mAh big. The company first introduced the phone in April, but now Acer has announced that it’s bringing the Zest Plus this summer. It’s expected to be available in North and South America in July for about $199 and up. […]

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Acer unveils Switch One 10 and Switch V 10 2-in-1 Windows tablets for $199 and up

Acer is adding two new models to its line of low-cost, 2-in-1 tablets with 10 inch displays and detachable keyboards this summer. The Acer Switch V 10 is the fancier of the two, with a USB Type-C port, a metal cover, and support for features like an optional 500GB hard drive in the keyboard dock. This […]

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Gigabyte Aero 14: a reasonably small gaming laptop with a huge battery

It’s hard to make a truly compact gaming laptop, because serious gamers want speedy, energy-hungry processors and graphics cards, among other things. But over the past few years we’ve seen a few companies do their best to offer gaming notebooks with reasonably thin and light bodies. Gigabyte’s latest is called the Aero 14, and it’s […]

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Zotac’s latest mini-desktops are Skylake powered, some are fanless

Zotac is introducing a whole bunch of new small form-factor computers ahead of the next week’s Computex trade show in Taiwan. Most appear to be updated versions of tiny computers we first saw at CES in January, but the updates are pretty welcome. Here’s a brief run-down of Zotac’s latest mini PCs. Zotac P Series While Zotac […]

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ECS Liva Pro is a compact, upgradeable desktop PC

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has been offering tiny desktop computers under its Liva brand since 2013. But up until recently, every Liva computer has had one major drawback: they weren’t easy to upgrade. That’s because the compact computers featured tiny system boards with embedded processors and storage soldered to the motherboard. Then ECS launched the […]