Shopping for a new laptop can be intimidating. When you’re spending hundreds, or sometimes even thousands, of dollars on a device that you’ll use almost daily, you want to make sure you’re getting a good value. And whether you need it for your job or just want something to run the latest games, finding the …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. This week’s Apple event held few surprises: it was a traditional lineup of annual iPhone, Watch and AirPods launches and not much more. Updates to other Apple products, like the MacBook Pro 14 and 16 and iPad Pro, were never …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. As expected, we got a first look at the iPhone 14 at Apple’s Wednesday event, but the new flagship phone was only the tip of the iceberg. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro …
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What’s happening Lenovo is announcing its new products for the second half of 2022 and early 2023 at the IFA show in Germany. Why it matters The announcements include an update to Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold, a well-thought-out update to its previous generation. Folding laptops are still in early days, and Lenovo’s shows a potential direction they may go. Lenovo’s …
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Fortunately for Apple users, Apple has made some much needed changes to MacBook Pro in the latest generations. That means no more awful keyboard, annoying Touch Bar or overreliance on Thunderbolt/USB-C connections. The latest models of the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the 16-inch MacBook Pro come with M1 series processors, a top-notch design and displays with mini-LED backlighting. Apple also added back some of the ports …
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Fortunately for Apple users, Apple has made some much needed changes to MacBook Pro in the latest generations. That means no more awful keyboard, annoying Touch Bar or overreliance on Thunderbolt/USB-C connections. The latest models of the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the 16-inch MacBook Pro come with M1 series processors, a top-notch design and displays with mini-LED backlighting. Apple also added back some of the ports …
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Does a 45-inch, 3,440×1,440-pixel OLED gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate and 800R curvature sound familiar? If it does, that’s because LG’s announcement of the new flagship UltraGear 45GR95QE was preceded earlier Thursday by Corsair’s launch of its Xeneon Flex, a very similar-sounding LG panel that adds the ability to bend from flat to curved. Though OLED desktop monitors …
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Large, high-quality bendy screens have been around since at least 2014, when LG debuted the first flexible OLED, but even though actual products have shipped over the past few years, we’ve yet to see one in a monitor — which is somewhat baffling, unless it’s prohibitively expensive to produce. Now we’re finally seeing the first — from Corsair of all …
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For its debut into gaming monitors, gaming accessory-maker HyperX arrives with a novelty: monitors bundled with an arm rather than a traditional stand. It’s not a new idea — some business monitors have had a similar option for ages — but it is new for gaming, and mounting monitors on arms is pretty popular with PC gamers, so on that …
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As part of its line revamp for its popular Arctis line of gaming headsets, which began with the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, SteelSeries launched the $180 (£175, AU$200) Arctis Nova 7X Wireless, the $100 (£100, AU$110) Nova 3 USB plus analog wired model and the $60 (£60, AU$70) analog wired Nova 1. As you’d expect for the money, the Nova 1 is …
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