Most of Microsoft’s Surface products are available in consumer or business versions. But when the company introduced the Surface Go 4 tablet this week, the company made the unusual decision to only unveil the Surface Go 4 for Business, noting that it’d be sold through business channels rather than through retail stores. But it turns out […]
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Microsoft Surface Go 4 is an Alder Lake-N tablet (but it’s business-only for now)
As expected, Microsoft’s new Surface Go 4 is a compact tablet that should bring a big speed boost over the Surface Go 3, thanks to Intel N200 Alder Lake-N processor, which Microsoft says delivers up to 80% faster performance than the Pentium Gold 6500Y and Core i3-10100Y chips used in that model. That’s the good […]
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Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Studio 2 convertible laptop for creatives for $2000 and up
3 Comments on Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Studio 2 convertible laptop for creatives for $2000 and upTwo years after introducing the original Surface Laptop Studio as a premium convertible notebook designed for digital content creators, Microsoft is back with a new model featuring the same easel-like display and unusual design, but packing twice the processing power. The new Surface Laptop Studio 2 is up for pre-order for $2000 and up, and it […]
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 is a 2.5 pound notebook with Core i5-1235U for $800 and up
3 Comments on Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 is a 2.5 pound notebook with Core i5-1235U for $800 and upThe Surface Laptop Go has been Microsoft’s thinnest, lightest, and cheapest laptop since the first model launched in 2020 for $550 and up. The new Surface Laptop Go 3 keeps the thin and light parts, but brings a significant performance boost thanks to a move to a 12th-gen Intel Core i5-1235U processor and at least 8GB of […]
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Windows 11 update is coming September 26 with AI-powered Copilot and updates for File Explorer, Paint, and other features
5 Comments on Windows 11 update is coming September 26 with AI-powered Copilot and updates for File Explorer, Paint, and other featuresThe next major update to Windows 11 is coming next week, and it will bring some of the biggest changes we’ve seen in a while. When the update to Windows 11 22H2 update arrives on September 26, 2023 it will bring a new design for File Explorer, all those new MS Paint features we’ve seen […]
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Lilbits: Eero Max 7 is a mesh WiFi 7 router with 10 GbE Ethernet (for a steep price)
Today was a busy day for Amazon product announcements. In addition to a new Fire HD 10 tablet and new Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max devices, the company announced an updated smart display, a new smart home hub, a bunch of new AI-enabled features coming to Alexa and Fire TV, and the most […]
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Laptop Studio 2 specs and design leaked ahead of launch
4 Comments on Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Laptop Studio 2 specs and design leaked ahead of launchMicrosoft is holding an event on September 21 to unveil next-gen Surface devices. But thanks to a series of leaks, we already had a pretty good idea that Microsoft plans to announced updates to at least two of its laptops: the Surface Laptop Go and Surface Laptop Studio as well as a new Surface Go […]
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Lilbits: Microsoft kills of WordPad, Lenovo unveils a liquid-cooled gaming laptop, and AMD Ryzen 8050 mobile chip details leaked
8 Comments on Lilbits: Microsoft kills of WordPad, Lenovo unveils a liquid-cooled gaming laptop, and AMD Ryzen 8050 mobile chip details leakedMicrosoft is pulling the plug on WordPad, the basic word processor that’s been included in Windows for more than two decades. The company has added the app to its list of deprecated features, saying it is “no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.” In other recent tech news […]
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Lilbits: Meta Portal’s slow demise, Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 released
1 Comment on Lilbits: Meta Portal’s slow demise, Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 releasedThe Meta Portal line of products are smart displays that launched in 2018 when Meta was still called Facebook. With support for Amazon’s Alexa voice service, they were kind of the company’s answer to an Amazon Echo, but with the added bonus of Facebook Messenger support, making them one of the easiest ways to place […]
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Lilbits: Cortana for Windows is dead, Brave Search doesn’t rely on Bing anymore, and a DIY handheld Linux PC
2 Comments on Lilbits: Cortana for Windows is dead, Brave Search doesn’t rely on Bing anymore, and a DIY handheld Linux PCIt’s hard building a search engine from scratch, which is probably why privacy-centric web browser DuckDuckGo relies on Bing for its search index. But when privacy-focused browser company Brave launched a search engine a few years ago, the company did build its own search index… but still relied on Bing for image and video search. Now […]