This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s WWDC conference starts at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) Monday, possibly bringing with it a new MacBook, if speculation is correct. Rumors suggest that a 2022 MacBook Air could come with a new design and an upgraded …
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The back-to-school shopping season is going on right now, so it’s a good time to learn how to shop for a cheap laptop, including what to look out for and what to avoid. Note that I don’t mean cheap in the pejorative sense: What I mean is an inexpensive laptop that performs well and offers good overall value, despite the …
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HP has two gaming lines, the premium Omen series and the newer, more budget-friendly Victus. Both of those are getting some mid-2022 updates, focusing on processor options, improved cooling and tweaks to bundled software. Omen 16 improvements The Omen 16, which sits in that middle 16-inch gaming laptop zone, has a revamped cooling system that primarily moves more air through …
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Everything is more expensive these days, that’s a given. With inflation, shipping congestion, chip shortages and whatever else is happening in the world, you can expect to pay more for things, including gaming laptops. My idea of a budget gaming laptop used to be $1,000 or less. Right now, I’ve reassessed and around $1,200 seems like the right cutoff between …
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Apple’s iMac all-in-one desktop is a marvel of minimalist design. But it’s so minimalist, sometimes you might want a few extras. For example, I see people store tons of stuff on the iMac’s curved foot all the time, from hard drives to USB hubs to notepads. Accessory maker Twelve South thinks you might need an extra shelf attached to the …
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We review a lot of computers at CNET, and we’ve been doing it for a long time. Over the years some of the methodology has changed, but our core commitment to in-depth product reviews has not. But how, exactly, do we test the products we review? The review process for laptops, desktops, tablets and other computer-like devices consists of two …
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Two years of pandemic living has shifted my default workspace from an office to the now-common sidewalk seating outside almost every cafe or coffee shop in New York. Weather permitting, it’s also my favorite place to join Zoom or other web meetings. And don’t worry, I always use a headset, usually a set of AirPods Pro, to avoid bothering those …
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It’s rare that Apple launches an entirely new product line, but that’s what we have in the Mac Studio, a new desktop positioned somewhere in the huge gulf between the Mac Mini and Mac Pro. The Mac Studio that I tested impressed me but didn’t surprise me. Internally, it’s very similar to the 16-inch MacBook Pro I tested and reviewed …
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It’s only January, but I’ve already got a laptop wish list for 2022. Most of these picks come from news announced earlier this month at CES, while others are my own informed speculation about what I expect later this year. I’d expect every must-have laptop of this year to have a better webcam, although realistically that’s not always going to …
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This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond. The years 2020 and 2021 served as a reminder of just how central computers are to work, school, home and just about everything we do. It started around March 2020, when many people took their work laptops …
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