When I reviewed Lenovo’s 14-inch Yoga C940 at the beginning of the year, it was one of the best in its category — great design, excellent features and faster performance than its predecessor. It did leave me wondering what Lenovo would do with it next, though. The answer: Just enough to keep up with the competition. Now …
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Folding portable laptop stands exist and so do small, simple USB-C docks. But the Ugreen X-Kit is the first mash-up of the two I’ve ever seen. The compact aluminum stand unfolds in a second; you simply pull apart its feet to reveal an X-shaped brace to support your laptop. Lift up on the top of each foot and braces drop …
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In 2019, Dell completely overhauled its XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop to make it one of the best models in the category. In fact, it was so good it didn’t really leave a lot of room to make it drastically better. But, the PC maker still managed to give the 2020 version, the XPS 13 2-in-1 9310, enough of a boost …
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At the intersection of gaming and sneaker cultures is the IP Banned 1 mechanical keyboard from Higround. Exclusively designed as a drop for the shoppable sim game Complexland, the compact 60% keyboard has a custom sneaker-inspired print that covers the tops and sides of the PBT keycaps (short for polybutylene terephthalate). The drop happens today at 4 p.m. PT (7 …
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The 15.6-inch Lenovo Yoga 9i is not exactly what it might seem. It looks like a premium two-in-one for productivity — from its clean, metal body to its webcam privacy shutter and fingerprint reader to its full number pad topped with media controls. But then you add in the DisplayHDR 400 display (available in FHD or UHD resolutions), the 360-degree …
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Finding a good computer monitor for less than $200 hasn’t been easy this year. But with Black Friday sales rolling over to Cyber Monday, one of the best we’ve tested is now well below that mark. The Lepow Z1-Black, Z1-Silver, Z1-Blue and Z1-Gamut USB-C displays are priced at $140, $140, $142 and $160, respectively. Each is a 15.6-inch IPS display with a 1,920×1,080-pixel …
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There are a lot of gaming accessories discounted for Cyber Monday. Gaming headset maker Turtle Beach, for instance, has dropped the price on its best-selling wired headset, the Recon 70, to only $23 (it normally sells for $40). The Recon 70 is a basic headset with just a volume control and an attached boom mic that can be rotated out …
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Every year you can find great Cyber Monday deals on storage for your game consoles and computers and 2020 is no different. It really is the best time of year to get more gigabytes to hold your files, music, movies, photos and games. This batch is the best deals from Seagate and LaCie from Amazon, Newegg and B&H. These deals end …
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With Android apps available on Chromebooks, lightweight tablets with a detachable keyboard like Lenovo’s IdeaPad Duet Chromebook make more sense. Google has added to Chrome OS’s support for tablets, too, with new touch gestures and a tablet mode for the Chrome browser making this slim, small two-in-one feel like a hybrid of the desktop side of Chrome and tablet side of …
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There’s not much to Logitech G’s latest wireless gaming mouse, but that’s sort of the point. The Pro X Superlight is less than 63 grams (2.2 ounces), making it the company’s lightest mouse ever, and 25% lighter than its standard Pro wireless mouse. That’s about a 20-gram difference. To get it that low, Logitech trimmed it up all over — …
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