The 2019 version of the slim Acer Swift 7 was one of the laptops I’ve been most looking forward to reviewing this year. Ever since I first saw it at CES 2019 in January, it’s been in the back of my mind as a potential smash hit, taking some current laptop trends to new extremes. …

While we wait year after year for completely redesigned MacBooks, the flagship MacBook Pro has slowly remade itself with regular incremental upgrades. This is especially true of the 15-inch MacBook Pro, which received a hefty internal tuneup last summer, and is getting another one today — including an update to its much-maligned keyboard. Back in 2018, we called the jump …

Whether moving from high school to college or college to the real world (or its much more pleasant sibling, grad school), a new computer or tablet is a graduation gift that always hits. This list includes low-cost tools for note-taking and productivity, everyday laptops that will look sharp in class, at the office or in a coffee shop, and, of …

The Samsung Galaxy Fold isn’t the only flexible screen in town. Briefly demoed by computer giant Lenovo, the ThinkPad X1 folding prototype shows what happens when you apply those same design ideas to a bigger screen and more powerful hardware. In this case, it’s a 13-inch 4:3 OLED 2K display. When fully open, it looks like a large Windows slate …

For a brief, shining moment, it looked like 16-inch laptops were going to be a thing. For the longest time, traditional 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch laptop screens dominated. Then 14-inch screen grabbed some market share about five years ago, and is now a solid, established choice. At the same time, 11-inch and 12-inch laptops are still a viable alternative, briefly …

Years ago, one could make a legitimate argument that real high-end PC gaming required an actual desktop PC, because so-called gaming laptops just weren’t up to the task. Back then, you often paid a significant premium for much slower performance, and your laptop graphics hardware wouldn’t age well at all. Over time, however, the difference has narrowed significantly. So much …

At its annual global press conference, Acer showed off new Chromebooks along with an entirely new line of computers for creatives, called Concept D. But some of the most interesting announcements were from the Predator Helios gaming line. The new Helios 700 looks and feels a lot like previous Helios laptops, at least at first. But with a quick hand …

It may not be as much of a household name (in the US at least) as Apple or Dell, but Acer makes a lot of desktops, laptops, monitors, accessories and pretty much every type of PC-related gear you can think of. This includes some of our longtime favorites, such as the Acer Swift 7 or the Predator 21 X.  Now …

I come not to bury the MacBook keyboard, nor to praise it.  The super flat keyboard on current MacBooks is one of our favorite things to hate. It ranks right up there with millennials ordering avocado toast, DC Universe movies and robocalls as fair game for everyone to knock. And that’s not without reason. The design, which slims down a standard …

With all the talk about Apple News Plus, Apple Card, Apple Arcade and Apple TV Plus, this was an unusual Apple event, as it skipped any new hardware in favor of services and software. But before you lament the lack of hardware, know that Apple front-loaded all its new hardware into a series of stealth announcements the week before. If you …