In late 2009, one of the worst-kept secrets in technology was that Apple planned to launch a tablet of some sort, probably within months. Would it be a locked-down device like the iPhone, launched just two years earlier in 2007? Or would it be a more traditional platform like the MacBook, following in the footsteps …
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The clamshell is a classic for a reason. That screen-plus-keyboard design, hinged in the middle, is what almost every laptop has looked like for the past 30 years. Yes, people have tried to reinvent this wheel many times, often to great fanfare and with predictions of paradigm shifts, but at the end of the day, most of us are still …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Despite huge leaps in processing power, display tech and portability, laptops have had a hard time moving past the traditional clamshell design that has defined several decades of PC design. Even though we see dozens of new models every year at …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CES has always been a computer-heavy show, and 2020 isn’t looking terribly different. Besides new laptop designs, updated favorites and ever more powerful gaming PCs, we expect to see new components from some of the companies that power modern tech, such …
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It’s easy to forget that Marques Brownlee is all of 26 years old, until he says that he’d never played a game on a Nintendo Game Boy until recently, or that he was in high school when the first iPhone was released. The New Jersey native, also known as MKBHD, recently crossed the 10-million-subscriber mark on YouTube and has become …
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Cyber Monday has morphed into Cyber, uh, Week, and we’re still seeing some legitimately great laptop deals. With price cuts this good, products are selling out fast, so we’ll keep updating this list throughout Cyber Monday as laptop deals come in and out of availability. This article will be kept up to date with the latest and greatest offers, with more …
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Black Friday is well over, but many of the major Apple product deals have held on fast into Cyber Monday. If you’ve been eyeing that discounted MacBook Pro or iPhone 11, now’s the perfect time to grab them while the deals are still available. You can even save $100 on a HomePod and $150 on Beats Studio3 Wireless headphones. Some of the earlier …
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The Surface Pro X falls into a very small, very exclusive category of PC products. It’s one of only a handful of new releases every year that prompt colleagues to proactively email me, asking where, when and how to get one. It’s easy to see why it’s got some serious buzz. The standard Surface Pro 7 is the dictionary definition of a …
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I have childhood memories of long afternoons at Joann Fabrics, wandering the aisles in a bored daze while my mother shopped for yarn. It didn’t seem like an especially exciting place back in the ’80s, but my opinion may be changing now that the chain (known these days as simply Joann) is adding 3D printers and other new products and …
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown,” said cult-favorite horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. While he achieved little fame and no fortune during his life (1890-1937), he’s become incredibly influential in the decades following his death. Lovecraft’s interconnected stories are linked by a backdrop of ancient creatures …
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