Dell is taking the popular XPS 13’s super-slim, bezel-free design and adding it to the larger XPS 15 and to a revivified version of its 17-inch big brother, the XPS 17. Along with the redesigned and refreshed 2020 models, Dell joins the parade of manufacturers offering configurations marketed at creators. The company doesn’t specifically mention Nvidia’s RTX Studio …

It’s been about 2.5 years since the Surface Book 2, Microsoft’s laptop that tries to be all things to all people; it’s a clamshell, a convertible and a detachable, where most laptops settle for two out of three. Even after all that time, the Surface Book 3 gets a mostly run-of-the-mill refresh, launched along with a brushed-up version of Microsoft’s …

Sure, HP’s launching two new Omen gaming desktops with updated designs. Yes, it’s also updating its current-generation components and releasing its first IPS gaming monitor. But what about that new Omen logo? Omen is the company’s mainstream gaming line. It targets grownups with jobs who play traditional games, don’t necessarily identify as Gamers and aren’t cost-conscious. HP’s done tons of …

Intel on Thursday led its annual deluge of new consumer desktop processors with a speed demon intended to bliss out overclockers who’ve been stockpiling liquid nitrogen along with toilet paper. The 10-core Core i9-10900K, with its claimed peak single-core frequency of 5.3GHz, tops this year’s 10th-gen range, which is based around Intel’s 14nm Comet Lake-S architecture.  The rest of Intel’s …

Google Stadia, the megacorp’s service to stream playable games on TVs and mobile devices without a console or PC, is the company’s leap into the melee of cloud gaming. Google is typically the biggest fish in any pond, but in cloud gaming it competes with other heavy hitters like Microsoft (xCloud), Nvidia (GeForce Now) and Sony (PlayStation Now).  As with …

If you’ve been waiting to preview and print from an iPad or iPhone to your Epson printer with correct color profiles for your media, the wait is over — sort of. Epson is rolling a version of its Print Layout software for mobile that adds color-managed printing for all Epson-profiled media. The catch is for technical reasons it will only …

For the most part, Lenovo kept the spring refresh of its Legion gaming laptops and desktop relatively low key and under the hood, with the de rigueur updates to the latest Intel processors (and the addition of AMD Ryzen options), Nvidia GPUs and faster screens. The company did upgrade most of the systems with a new keyboard, dubbed “Legion TrueStrike” along with a …

Trying to get work done in a makeshift workspace is hard; trying to replicate your office-based professional workflow during this coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic requires even more finesse. Here’s some gear that might make it go a little more smoothly. Hopefully, you’ve already bought  or own the requisite laptop, desktop or tablet necessary to get your creative work done. Thanks to growing numbers …

This is shaping up to be a busy week for laptops targeting gamers and creators. Monday, we saw the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, the first with AMD’s flagship eight-core consumer mobile chip and first AMD-based laptop with discrete Nvidia RTX graphics. Today, Intel announced its competing 10th-gen Core H series, which is headlined by a new octa-core/16-thread i7 processor, the …

Huawei unveiled its flagship phones, the P40, P40 Pro, and P40 Pro Plus, on Thursday in a livestreamed launch on YouTube. The new phones follow in the Huawei P30’s footsteps by pulling out all the stops in their cameras. But they won’t support Google services, so they won’t have access to the Google Play Store. The launch event was due to take place in Paris, …