Acer’s 13 inch Swift 7 laptop is super-slim, super-lightweight, and super-quiet, thanks to a fanless design. It’s a stylish laptop with one of the best keyboards of any Acer laptop I’ve tested, and it also features a wide, comfortable touchpad below the keys. There must be a catch, right? Well, there is… kind of. The Acer […]
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Google Pixel XL review: This is what a “Google Phone” looks like in 2016
Google’s Pixel smartphones represent a new beginning for the company in a lot of ways. While Google has been working with hardware partners to release Nexus phones since 2010, the 5 inch Google Pixel and 5.5 inch Google Pixel XL are the first phones that are Google all the way. They ship with the latest […]
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Acer Aspire S 13 review: An affordable ultraportable laptop (with a few quirks)
For the past few years Asus has kind of dominated the affordable ultrabook space with its Zenbook UX305 line of 13.3 inch notebooks weighing around 3 pounds or less and selling for around $699 and up. But this year Acer decided to get in on the action with the launch of the 3 pound Acer […]
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Gole1 mini PC review: Blurring the lines between tablets and desktop PCs
The Gole1 is a tiny computer that’s hard to categorize. It’s basically a compact desktop computer that you can also use as a tablet. Or maybe it’s a tablet with a really small screen, a bunch of ports, and a kind of thick case. Either way, it’s a small device that you can plug into […]
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Asus Zenbook UX305UA laptop review (Core i5 Skylake model)
The Asus Zenbook UX305 line of laptops, are thin, light, and surprisingly cheap when you look at their spec sheets. Asus launched the first model in early 2015, offering a 2.7 pound laptop with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid state storage, and an Intel Core M processor for just $699. It certainly wasn’t the […]
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Kangaroo Mobile Desktop mini PC review
I’ve seen a lot of tiny desktop computers in the past few years. The Kangaroo Mobile Desktop is one of the most unusual. This little Windows 10 computer isn’t as small as an Intel Compute Stick or as powerful as an Intel NUC-style system. But this little computer from InFocus is small enough to slide into one pocket, speedy […]
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Remix Mini review: A $70 Android desktop PC
Google Android may have started out as an operating system for smartphones, but these days you can buy tablets, Android TV boxes, smartwatches, and other products powered by the OS. But for the most part Android is still very much optimized for touchscreen devices. Jide has been working to change that. Earlier this year the […]
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Tronsmart Ara X5 mini PC review: It’s a real desktop PC… but not a super speedy one
Tronsmart is a Chinese company that first showed up on my radar a few years ago when the company began offering small Android-powered TV boxes and sticks. But like many Chinese manufacturers, Tronsmart isn’t just making products with ARM-based chips and Android software anymore. While the Tronsmart Ara x5Â looks a lot like a small Roku-like […]
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Google Nexus 6P review: Bigger and better… mostly
Between 2010 and 2014 Google and its hardware partners released half a dozen Nexus phones. The Nexus One was one of the first smartphones to feature a 1 GHz processor and it sported a 3.7 inch display. At the time that was pretty big for a smartphone screen, but the times have changed and each […]
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28 Comments on Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11 review: A Windows 10 notebook for under $200… but it comes at a cost
Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11 review: A Windows 10 notebook for under $200… but it comes at a cost
28 Comments on Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11 review: A Windows 10 notebook for under $200… but it comes at a costThere’s been a resurgence of small, low-cost laptops in the past few years. The term “netbook” may have died around the turn of the decade, but low-cost Chromebooks continue to grow in popularity, and in recent years Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo have all introduced small Windows notebooks with price tags in the $200 to […]