Acer has been an active player on the Chromebook scene for years, and has regularly stretched the conventions of the category. In 2015, the company introduced the first Chromebook OS laptop with a 15.6-inch display — a size that has become common since. And with the new Chromebook 315, announced today at CES, Acer has another …

For a long time, choosing a laptop required making compromises. Considerations like portability, aesthetic appeal, performance, battery life — depending on your budget, you might find something that delivered on two or three of them at best. But, as we’re seeing clearly at CES this year, times have changed. And Asus continues to refine its portfolio of well-rounded ultraportable laptops …

This year, we reviewed dozens of laptops all across the spectrum of price and power. But, as 2018 draws to a close and we prepare to see loads of new systems at CES 2019, there are still several noteworthy laptops on our testing bench. Here are brief hands-on impressions of a few, along with preliminary test results and photos.  In …

Following CNET en Español’s exclusive report on Dec. 6, Huawei has officially announced the Nova 4 — one of the first in a wave of phones with a circular “notch” that’s expected to debut in 2019. In contrast to the wide “eyebrow” notch originated on the Essential Phone and popularized by Apple‘s iPhone X, the Nova 4’s front-facing camera sits in a small, …

As we close in on Christmas 2018, Amazon is offering up a real humdinger of a deal: the brand-new MacBook Air, which Apple introduced just this October, for $999. That’s a $200 discount off of Apple’s sticker price.  Of course, Apple will also sell you a MacBook for $999 — but it’ll be the older (though beloved) model from 2017 …

Lenovo has updated its wallet-friendly ThinkPad L series with the latest versions of Intel’s eighth-gen Core processor. The ThinkPad L390, with its traditional clamshell design, starts at $659 (‎£522, AU$915), and the two-in-one version, the L390 Yoga, starts at $889 (‎£705 or AU$1,235). Apart from the new Whiskey Lake chips, the ThinkPad L390 and L390 Yoga are pretty similar to their …

Following in the footsteps of AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile now supports Apple’s eSIM technology, which lets customers activate a phone plan remotely and maintain two active lines simultaneously.  T-Mobile customers can now activate a second line on the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max or iPhone XR through the T-Mobile eSIM app. They’re restricted to one of three prepaid phone service …

The 32GB version of the newest 9.7-inch iPad, regularly priced at $329, was selling for $250 everywhere on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. That deal remains in place at Target.  But now Walmart has jumped in with a significant discount that we haven’t seen before, selling the 128GB version for $329, a savings of $100 on that model.  So, you can pay $329 for …

B&H marked down a ton of Apple hardware during the week leading up to Cyber Monday — and it’s not turning back. The retailer continues to tweak its discount on the 2018 MacBook Air that Apple introduced less than two months ago, and which is now priced at $1,059.  That’s $140 off Apple’s retail price, $10 off the previous low from Black Friday — …

When Apple announced the new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR on Sept. 12, one particular feature captured the imagination of international travelers and multiple phone-owners alike: the dual SIM. Josh Miller/CNET If the processor is your phone’s brain, then the SIM, or subscriber identity module, is its soul — a tiny little chip that stores your phone number and …