The NBA will resume its season on July 30, roughly four and a half months after shutting down in mid-March when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. All games will be played in Orlando, Florida where players, coaches and team personnel, along with select NBA reporters, are sequestered in the bubble at …

Dell’s top-end Inspiron 7000 series boasts an all-aluminum chassis that’s thinner, lighter and sturdier than its midrange Inspiron 5000 models, which feature metal lids and keyboard decks but flimsy plastic bottom panels. Best Buy today has an Inspiron 7000 marked down to $600, which places it firmly in the price range of the Inspiron 5000 series. And this isn’t some …

Stuck at home this summer? If the coronavirus pandemic has canceled your summer plans, you could pivot and use your vacation funds on a new gaming laptop. If you want to get into PC gaming or upgrade your aging setup, a new gaming laptop can certainly help fill the hours during those long summer days and hot summer nights. Read …

Ready for fireworks? Macy’s is taking a guerrilla approach this year to its annual Fourth of July fireworks spectacular. Instead of one big pyrotechnic show on Independence Day, it has planned a series of smaller fireworks displays throughout New York City all week long. The displays will be short and launched from undisclosed locations throughout the city to prevent crowds …

If you’re in the market for a back-to-school or work-from-home laptop, Dell has a number of models on sale. The company is currently offering deep discounts on a wide variety of products, from monitors and desktops to Chromebooks and gaming laptops. You can see all of Dell’s Cyber Savings deals here, and keep reading to check out five of the …

Woot is a great source for finding deals on a great many things, but it’s usually more miss than hit with laptops. The majority of laptops on the site feature severely outdated or underpowered components, which sours the deal no matter how low the price. Woot has a refurbished HP Pavilion x360 convertible laptop on offer right now for $580 …

The Gigabyte Aero 15 won an Editors’ Choice Award last fall on the strength of its excellent OLED display and its wealth of color-management tools. These features make the Aero 15 a winner for creative pros, but it also has a few items that will draw the attention of gamers. It features RGB keyboard lighting along with software for monitoring …

Has your once shiny and speedy Mac lost a bit of speed? If you are seeing the spinning beach ball more frequently as your Mac struggles to keep up, then it’s time to perform a bit of maintenance to put a little pep back in its step.  In a previous version of this article, I recommended that you replace your …

Don’t let a touchy touchpad ruin your opinion of a laptop that’s otherwise in fine working order. You can extend the life of your laptop with a few, simple tweaks to its touchpad. Whether your touchpad is dead to the touch or is acting skittish — registering unintended gestures while failing to recognize your intended swipes, pinches, taps and clicks …

Goodbye, butterfly keyboard. Hello, Magic Keyboard. When Apple introduced the new MacBook Air earlier this year, it replaced the shallow keys of its loathed butterfly keyboard with the more substantial Magic Keyboard, the keys of which are less likely to get stuck by a spec of dust. You get more than just a new keyboard, however, with the new MacBook …