Dell announced the latest version of its popular, premium XPS 13 laptop on Thursday. The PC-maker reengineered the 13.4-inch laptop, taking inspiration from mobile components, and miniaturized the motherboard — the smallest ever made for a Dell. This made it possible to get the laptop down to only 14 millimeters thick with a starting weight …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. A redesigned MacBook Air was one of the highlight announcements at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The light MacBook, which hadn’t been updated since late 2020, now gets the second-gen Apple Silicon chip, called the M2, a fanless body available in four colors …

Razer’s Blade gaming laptops don’t change much year to year, because why mess with a good thing? There are small improvements to the design but nothing changes too drastically. The 15.6-inch Blade 15 for 2022, for instance, now has laser-cut speaker grills, slightly larger keycaps and the power button is in the keyboard’s upper-right corner instead of on the right …

For the new Surface Laptop Go 2 announced Wednesday, Microsoft didn’t change too much from the original that debuted in 2020. It’s still an attractive, budget-friendly, small, thin-and-light laptop built around a 12.4-inch touchscreen with a tall 3:2 aspect ratio and a 1,536×1,024-pixel resolution.  Inside, Microsoft updated the processor to an 11th-gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor that, while not the latest, …

Not all USB-C cables are the same. The charging cable that came with your phone might look like the one that came with your docking station, but it likely doesn’t support all the same functions. And you typically can’t tell just by looking at the cable. With the latest version of Chrome OS (milestone 102), Chromebooks will now show a …

May 2022 Chromebooks gained in popularity over the past couple of years for remote learning and work. Record numbers of them were sold during the pandemic (though shipments are slowing down). HP, one of the top makers of Chromebooks, dialed back its focus on the category in the second half of 2021 but also branched out with a Chromebook tablet and …

Acer had one of the best Chromebooks available in 2021 with the Spin 713, and now it looks like it might repeat its success with the Chromebook Spin 714. The premium two-in-one doesn’t stray far from its predecessor in terms of what it offers, but Acer did make some changes to keep it competitive and likely a top pick for …

There have been a few larger two-in-one laptops with hardware powerful enough for PC gaming. But they’re typically made for media creators, such as HP’s Spectre x360 16, so gaming is just something they can do, not what they’re built for. The ROG Flow X16 that Asus announced on Tuesday is a full-fledged gaming two-in-one with components and cooling strong enough …

Lenovo’s Yoga line of two-in-ones is now 10 years old. It’s not surprising the line has lasted this long: It was the best two-in-one design to come out with the launch of Windows 8. It’s a laptop, a tablet, a digital whiteboard, a small all-in-one PC, an immersive mobile gaming display and a kitchen companion. All these years later, the Yoga’s …

Lenovo announced its latest high-end Legion 7 series gaming laptops on Tuesday. At the top of the line are the Legion 7 and 7i, which Lenovo said are the world’s most powerful 16-inch gaming laptops. A pair of thinner, lighter versions, the Slim 7 and 7i, were also announced.  The Legion 7 (AMD) and 7i (Intel) feature a 16-inch 2,560×1,600-resolution …